Cine-Opera

3 and 9 SEP

Cinemateca Portuguesa

"Castelo do Barba Azul" de Michael Powell
"Miss Julie" de Alf Sjöberg
"O Dia do Desespero" de Manuel de Oliveira
"La Traviata" de Franco Zefirelli

The Cine-Opera cycle in partnership with the Cinemateca Portuguesa, around the multiple contagions between cinema and opera and of course focusing on the theme of forbidden love, proposes unbeatable film versions of great classics of this edition, such as "La Traviata" by Franco Zefirelli (1982), starring Teresa Stratas and Plácido Domingo, the enigmatic "Bluebeard's Castle", by director Michael Powell (1963) the only opera and masterpiece by the Hungarian composer, Belà Bartók. "Miss Julie" by Alf Sjöberg (1951), evoking "Menina Júlia" by Strinberg and celebrating the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Camilo Castelo Branco, one of the most extraordinary Portuguese novelists of all time: "Day of Despair" by Manuel de Oliveira (1992).