2026
April
Artist in Residency: YARITORI 2026
蚕 Kaiko
An artistic research project that begins from the image of the silkworm, inspired by a poem by Misuzu Kaneko. The residency will serve as the starting point for new modern-music drawing an arc between Misuzu Kaneko, Sylvia Plath, and contemporary poets.
The project explores the figure of the woman, her artistic autonomy, and the ways in which depression and suicide appear across cultures as different as the Japanese and the Western ones. The motivation is deeply personal: it stems from the loss of an artist friend and teacher who chose to end his life, and from the search for a way to process grief through artistic language.
Kaiko focuses on the intimacy of isolation, the universe of dreams, sleep and death, and the vulnerability of speaking about these themes. A dialogue between voices of the last century and of today in order to decode a phenomenon that remains painfully present.
︎Matsudo/Tokyo (Japan)
An artistic research project that begins from the image of the silkworm, inspired by a poem by Misuzu Kaneko. The residency will serve as the starting point for new modern-music drawing an arc between Misuzu Kaneko, Sylvia Plath, and contemporary poets.
The project explores the figure of the woman, her artistic autonomy, and the ways in which depression and suicide appear across cultures as different as the Japanese and the Western ones. The motivation is deeply personal: it stems from the loss of an artist friend and teacher who chose to end his life, and from the search for a way to process grief through artistic language.
Kaiko focuses on the intimacy of isolation, the universe of dreams, sleep and death, and the vulnerability of speaking about these themes. A dialogue between voices of the last century and of today in order to decode a phenomenon that remains painfully present.
︎Matsudo/Tokyo (Japan)
9, 10 Mai
︎ 19:15
Sonus Feminae
Komponistinnen in der Alte Musik
Kaija Saariaho: Tempest Songbook
for soprano, baritone and chamber ensemble
Tempest Songbook is a collection of arias written on various occasions and for various instrumentations between 1993 and 2014. The project started off as individual birthday pieces written by Kaija, who handpicked monologues from Shakespeare's Tempest for the moment’s dedicatee, but rapidly grew into a cohesive whole that samples the classic play in particular for its acoustic drama: sounds abound, orchestrated by the mastermind Prospero and his servant Ariel, and in them the composer found a distillation of the play’s essence as aural theatre-within-theatre. The result is a cycle of six short accompanied songs, which Kaija also adapted for Baroque instruments, and for some performances interspersed with music from Henry Purcell’s own Tempest.
- text from Kaija Saariaho’s website
Yalda Zamani, conductor
︎Villa Elisabeth, Berlin (Germany)
Kaija Saariaho: Tempest Songbook
for soprano, baritone and chamber ensemble
Tempest Songbook is a collection of arias written on various occasions and for various instrumentations between 1993 and 2014. The project started off as individual birthday pieces written by Kaija, who handpicked monologues from Shakespeare's Tempest for the moment’s dedicatee, but rapidly grew into a cohesive whole that samples the classic play in particular for its acoustic drama: sounds abound, orchestrated by the mastermind Prospero and his servant Ariel, and in them the composer found a distillation of the play’s essence as aural theatre-within-theatre. The result is a cycle of six short accompanied songs, which Kaija also adapted for Baroque instruments, and for some performances interspersed with music from Henry Purcell’s own Tempest.
- text from Kaija Saariaho’s website
Yalda Zamani, conductor
︎Villa Elisabeth, Berlin (Germany)
10, 11 Jun
Relicário Perpétuo
New Opera by Luís Tinoco
André Baleiro, Camila Mandillo, Andrea Conangla, Mariana Fabião, Rodrigo Carreto, André Henriques
Nuno Carinhas, staging
Joana Carneiro, conductor
Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa
︎Teatro Camões, Lisboa (Portugal)
André Baleiro, Camila Mandillo, Andrea Conangla, Mariana Fabião, Rodrigo Carreto, André Henriques
Nuno Carinhas, staging
Joana Carneiro, conductor
Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa
︎Teatro Camões, Lisboa (Portugal)
28 Jun - 2 Jul
Composer’s Workshop for Voice and Orchestra — Part III & Final Concert
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
James MacMillan, conductor
Orquestra Gulbenkian
︎Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa (Portugal)
James MacMillan, conductor
Orquestra Gulbenkian
︎Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa (Portugal)
10, 11 Jul
︎ 21:00
A Laugh to Cry
New op-era by Miguel Azguime
Pedro Neves, conductor
Camila Mandillo, soprano
Andrea Conangla, coloratura soprano
André Henriques, bass-baritone
Miguel Azguime, speaker
Jade Mandillo, speaker
Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble
︎Teatro S. Luiz, Lisboa (Portugal)
Pedro Neves, conductor
Camila Mandillo, soprano
Andrea Conangla, coloratura soprano
André Henriques, bass-baritone
Miguel Azguime, speaker
Jade Mandillo, speaker
Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble
︎Teatro S. Luiz, Lisboa (Portugal)
10, 12 Sep
Relicário Perpétuo
New Opera by Luís Tinoco
André Baleiro, Camila Mandillo, Andrea Conangla, Mariana Fabião, Rodrigo Carreto, André Henriques
Nuno Carinhas, staging
Joana Carneiro, conductor
Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa
︎Porto (Portugal)
André Baleiro, Camila Mandillo, Andrea Conangla, Mariana Fabião, Rodrigo Carreto, André Henriques
Nuno Carinhas, staging
Joana Carneiro, conductor
Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa
︎Porto (Portugal)
15 Oct
The World of Opera
On a venturous journey through the world of opera, soprano Andrea Conangla performs some of the most spectacular and demanding arias from the 18th century repertoire. In the role of Cleopatra in Händel’s Giulio Cesare, she embodies the expression of relief and triumph in Da tempeste and the seductive power in V’adoro, pupille. With The Madness, he abandons himself in the satirical register of Rameau’s opera Platée. He succumbs to the lament and supplication of Almirena in Händel’s Rinaldo. It ends with the vengeance and bravery of the Queen of the Night in Mozart’s The Magic Flute. Alternately, the orchestra performs overtures from operas by Mozart and Rossini, passes through the stylized exoticism of Rameau in The Gallant Indies and ends with the contagious energy of Offenbach’s famous Can-Can.
Andrea Conangla, soprano
Pedro Neves, maestro
Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa
︎Lisboa (Portugal)
19 Oct
︎ 21:00
Alexéi Tolpygo: Três Poemas Portugueses (World Premiere)
For amplified voice (soprano) and orchestraWords by Florbela Espanca, Álvaro de Campos (Fernando Pessoa), and Mário de Sá-Carneiro
Florbela Espanca
(1894 - 1930)
Lágrimas ocultas
Se me ponho a cismar em outras eras
Em que ri e cantei, em que era querida,
Parece-me que foi noutras esferas,
Parece-me que foi numa outra vida...
E a minha triste boca dolorida,
Que dantes tinha o rir das Primaveras,
Esbate as linhas graves e severas
E cai num abandono de esquecida!
E fico, pensativa, olhando o vago...
Toma a brandura plácida dum lago
O meu rosto de monja de marfim...
E as lágrimas que choro, branca e calma,
Ninguém as vê brotar dentro da alma!
Ninguém as vê cair dentro de mim!
Andrea Conangla, soprano
Pedro Neves, maestro
Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa
︎Teatro Tivoli BBVA, Lisboa (Portugal)
6, 7 Nov
Schaum
A multimedia experimental opera projectWhen is a date an actual date?
This realisation has the ability of transforming a mundane moment into a memory worth of remembering and reliving. A pun becomes the stage for a surrealist evening inspired by the Black Mirror episode San Junipero.
Paul Hauptmeier and Martin Recker, music
Andrea Conangla, stage direction and voice
Lidia Luciano, soprano
︎Pixi Bar, Leipzig (Germany)
18, 19 Dec
J. S. Bach: Weihnachtsoratorium
Kantaten I-III
Adrian Büttemeier, conductor
Berliner Domkantorei
Barockorchester Aris & Aulis
︎Berliner Dom, Berlin (Germany)
Adrian Büttemeier, conductor
Berliner Domkantorei
Barockorchester Aris & Aulis
︎Berliner Dom, Berlin (Germany)