OPERAFEST 2025
From 7 AUGUST  to 16 SEPTEMBER 2025
PROGRAMME

Forbidden loves

The 6th edition of Operafest 2025 revolves around love - this overwhelming force that "burns unseen" and moves human existence. The programme for this edition addresses several cases of "forbidden loves", haunted by illness and death, social class, duty and betrayal.

La Traviata

Verdi

Great Classics

7, 9 and 10 AUG

21h00

Convento da Cartuxa

Operatic Rave

A night out of this world

Opera Satellite

8 AUG

22h30 – 03h30

Cloisters Convent of Cartuxa

Dido and Aeneas

Henry Purcell

Great Classics

29 and 30 AUG

21h00

Aula Magna

Liberation of sound

Alexander Technique Workshops
by Eleni Vosniadou

Opera Satellite

3 and 4 SEP

Location to be announced

Bluebeard's Castle

Michael Powell

Cine-Opera

3 SEP

19H00

Cinemateca Portuguesa

Miss Julie

Alf Sjöberg

Cine-Opera

4 SEP

19H00

Cinemateca Portuguesa

Julie

Philippe Boesmans

Inedited

5 SEP | 21h00

6 SEP | 19h00

Culturgest

La Traviata

 Franco Zefirelli

Cine-Opera

8 SEP

19h30

Cinemateca Portuguesa

Day of Despair

Manuel de Oliveira

Cine-Opera

 

9 SEP

19H00

Cinemateca Portuguesa

The Magic Flute

Mozart

Great Classics | Audiences of the Future

12 and 13 SEP

21h00

Centro Cultural Olga Cadaval

Cancelled

Opera & Literature

Paulo Ferreira de Castro

Opera Satellite

15 SEP

18H30

El Corte Inglés

Opera and Forbidden Love

Rui Vieira Nery

Opera Satellite

16 SEP

18h30

El Corte Inglés