Belém Cultural Center Partnership, Castelo Opera Company – Association
CCB . September 6th. Wednesday . 21:00 . Small Auditorium
Operafest Lisboa 2023 presents, in partnership with the Centro Cultural de Belém, the show Grandes Cantores para a Ópera de Hoje, as part of the contemporary opera competition Maratona Ópera XXI, this year focusing on emerging singers and the interpretation of opera of our time, in Portuguese, in co-production with MPMP, Movimento Patrimonial pela Música Portuguesa.
The Maratona Ópera XXI competition’s main mission is to project this form of total art into the future, promoting the emergence of new composers, new operas, new creatives, and performers, enhancing the creation of more contemporary opera and bringing it closer to the performers, of today’s public and world.
The challenge is based on an exciting line-up with arias or excerpts from operas from the last decades by Portuguese composers such as Alexandre Delgado, António Chagas Rosa, Francisco Fontes, Nuno Corte-Real, Hugo Ribeiro and Dimitri Andrikopoulos, in a staged show performed by young singers selected, evaluate their skills in interpreting contemporary Portuguese opera, and in particular in the Portuguese language, thus enhancing the strengthening of the tradition of singing in Portuguese and the appropriation, specialization and dissemination of the Portuguese repertoire of contemporary opera by new generations of interpreters. The winners will be awarded the Carlos de Pontes Leça Prize.
Program
Dimitris Andrikopoulos (b. 1971) Where will my daughter be, in Royal Opera
Soprano Sofia Marafona
Alexandre Delgado (b. 1965)
My name is Maria, in The Mad Queen
Loneliness Aria, in The Mad Queen
Soprano Nataliya Stepanska
António Chagas Rosa (b. 1960) Well, I managed to change my existence!, Scene 2, in O Homem dos Sonhos
Soprano Ana Sofia Ventura
Francisco Fontes (b. 1993)
Now I’m playing, in Maria Magola
I haven’t spoken yet, in Maria Magola
Soprano Marta Martins
Nuno Côrte-Real (b. 1971) Fidélia, in Twitter opera
Baritone Tiago Amado Gomes
Hugo Ribeiro (b. 1983) What can I expect from this life, in The dead travel by metro
Soprano Juliana Macedo
Nuno Côrte-Real
Exaltation, in Florbela’s Book
The verses I wrote for you, in Livro de Florbela
Soprano Beatriz Maia
Art sheet
Directed by Rodrigo Aleixo
Musical direction Rita Castro Blanco
Ensemble MPMP
CAST
Singer candidates (in order of appearance)
1- Sofia Marafona, soprano
2- Nataliya Stepanska, soprano
3- Ana Sofia Ventura, soprano
4 – Marta Martins, soprano
5 – Tiago Amado Gomes, baritone
6- Juliana Macedo, soprano
7- Beatriz Maia, soprano
Actors André Magalhães, Ângelo Castro, José Alves and Marta Lopes Correia
Technical direction and lighting design Pedro Santos
Subtitling Francisco Lima da Silva
Operafest Lisbon Production
MPMP co-production
Jury:
Soprano and artistic direction of OPERAFEST Lisbon Catarina Molder
Composer and member of the MPMP board Luís Salgueiro
Conductor and programmer at CCB Cesário Costa
Actor, director and director of São Luiz Teatro Municipal Miguel Loureiro
Film director Catarina Vasconcelos
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