11 Sep

︎ 21:00

12 Sep

︎ 19:00

15 Oct 

︎ 21:00

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

︎Pequeno Auditório CCB, Lisboa (Portugal)

19 Oct

︎ 21:00

Alexéi Tolpygo: Três Poemas Portugueses (World Premiere)

For amplified voice (soprano) and orchestra

Words 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 project 

When 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 Dec

︎ 20:00

19 Dec

︎ 15:00
︎ 18:00

J. S. Bach: Weihnachtsoratorium