SHOWS
2024/2025 Season
FIRST CONCERTS
With a musical spectrum ranging from classical to modern-day electronica, First Concerts are experiences aimed at babies and children from three months to six years old. The idea is to give them multiple avenues for encountering music, colourful moments with a strong visual component that invite all the senses to an active and interactive musical experience. As always, there will be no shortage of novelties.
He who tells a tale adds a sound
Óscar Rodrigues artistic conception and performance
Filipe Fernandes, João Diogo Leitão, Ricardo Vieira and Sofia Portugal performance
Miguel C. Tavares visual arts
Based on traditional and popular Portuguese music, with melodies that have been passed down from voice to voice over time, Quem Conta Um Conto Acrescenta Um Som pays homage to the richness and diversity of our culture. The stories and tales that these songs tell us tell of ladies and knights, processions, pagan rites, labour on land and sea, bogeymen and saints. Video manipulated in real time helps put the music into context through movement, colours and shapes.
LONG LIVE VIVALDI!
Sofia Nereida artistic conception, music and performance
Flávio Aldo and Joana Pereira performance
This creation by the Educational Service was premiered in 2013, during the Year of Italy. It was a huge success, which led to it also being performed outside the Casa da Música. All the inspiration for Viva Vivaldi!, a show with a strong scenic component, comes from the music written by this great Italian composer of the Baroque period.
little pirates
Gira Sol Azul Collective artistic conception and performance
On board the ship of the Pequenos Piratas, no one is afraid of the sea: courage bursts from the chest and the gaze chases the horizon. In this epic there is no shortage of salt water and sun, fish and mermaids, storms and treasures. It’s the great adventure of going to the end of the world and back. A staged concert, designed to challenge the abilities and intelligence of the little ones with a fusion of influences topped by rock. It’s not obvious, it feels good and it’s even better.
TOM AFRO TOM
Joaquim Alves and Tiago Oliveira artistic conception and performance
Belmira Paulo, Rui Vilhena and Tamy Rodrigues performance
More than a concert, Tom Afro Tom is an invitation to embark on a sonic journey through Africa, Europe and South America, exploring the richness and magic of the plurality of the Portuguese language sung amid warm breezes, centuries-old buildings and lush forests. Hurry up, the boat is leaving!
Velvet Sounds
Paulo Lameiro artistic direction and performance
Alberto Roque musical direction and performance
Inesa Markava, Isabel Catarino, José Lopes and Pedro Santos performance
Because they’re tiny, it might seem that babies don’t fall in love with musical instruments on an adult scale. It’s a sweet mistake, as sweet is the sound Gil serves us from his tuba. When he hugs that fat, shiny roll, many children and parents cover their ears for fear of the intensity they expect to hear. And isn’t there a velvet sound lurking inside? This concert will be like that, full of surprises.
Baby World
António Miguel Teixeira artistic conception and performance
Educational Service performance
Babies’ initial sounds, their onomatopoeia, the proto-words they try out and, finally, their first words, such as mummy and daddy, are the basic ingredients for this concert, which emphasises the importance of listening to and cherishing those who will be the children and adults of tomorrow’s world.
CHOUCHOU
Beatriz Rola and Duarte Cardoso artistic conception and performance
Educational Service performance
Claude-Emma, Debussy’s only daughter, was affectionately known as Chouchou. The French composer was inspired by her to write some of the most beautiful pieces of Impressionism. It is through this world of father and daughter that we set out today to discover the music of the early 20th century.
OUR CONCERTS
There are many different types of concerts: from parties and performances to staged concerts. Each one presents its own musical proposal, with instruments, styles, backgrounds, contexts, themes and audiences varying from one to the next, but all these shows are pieces of a puzzle that tends towards the infinite. The basic purpose is to celebrate the freedom to create, communicate and share. Artists are involved, work and play are combined. What follows is a wide range of original productions, aimed at audiences aged six and over, ideal for schools and families, always fostering a very positive relationship with music.
In Rua do Capelão
Educational Service artistic conception
Patrícia Costa, João Costa, João Moutinho and Pedro Martins performance
Mr Capelão guides us through the history and stories of fado. He, who has always worked in a typical fado house in Mouraria, more precisely in a street named after him, takes us back to the 19th century, to Africa, to Brazil, and invariably returns to the 12 strings of the Portuguese guitar, the viola accompaniment and the fantastic voice of the fado singer. Bon voyage!
Eça is Eça
Mário João Alves original idea, texts and staging
Ângela Alves, João Tiago Magalhães, Mário João Alves and Paulina Sá Machado performance
Opera This! co-production
This is the story of the creation of an opera. You bring a place, a plot, you bring music. But what music? We know that Eça de Queirós had a deep admiration for Offenbach’s operettas. After all, they were similar: ironic, iconic, laconic, ionic in general. So here is the sound of Offenbach populating the small palace of Empresses Ang Ling and Pau Ling, in the Kingdom of Ti-Chin-Fu.
How to Dusk a Firefly, According to Dr Qwrtzfgtlvskh
Mário João Alves artistic conception, script and staging
Opera This! co-production and performance
Dr Qwrtzfgtlvskh discovered that fireflies are, after all, little rhythmic envelopes, silent music, photobeats of the heart, luminocardiograms of the world. And they are also, according to him, singers eager for it to get dark so they can see their friends and sing that song together. Yes, that song. Shall we learn how to make fireflies sing?
Take a good look
Óscar Rodrigues artistic conception
Beatriz Rola, Jorge Queijo, Óscar Rodrigues and Ricardo Vieira music and performance
Anilupa animated films
Cine-concert
Four films produced by Anilupa, the animation film studio of the Associação de Ludotecas do Porto, with the signatures of children and young people, are screened and soundtracked live. The music was created specifically for each film and is played simultaneously with the projection by the composers themselves. The selection of films is part of the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of 25 April 1974. The aim is to reflect not only on the half-century that has passed, but also on the next half.
Kacharristan
Duo Vibra Tó artistic conception and performance
Gilberto Oliveira performance
Based on music with unconventional instruments, Kacharristão emphasises the message of recycling as a way of life and a means of sustainability for our planet. A concert for trinkets and orchestra, it features guest soloists from the Orquestra Nacional do Kacharristão (Kacharristan National Orchestra) who speak three languages: music, recycling and nature.
An Infinite Conversation
Teresa Gentil composition and musical direction
Serena Cacchioli script
Students and teachers from the Music School of Leça da Palmeira performance
Teachers and students at a new music school create and play together in an atmosphere of freedom, until one day they are surprised by communiqués imposing excessive bureaucracy and martial directives, without it being clear who is issuing them and for what purpose. Matita and her colleagues are forced to defend their freedom against these dictates. What if they managed to change everything, as they did at dawn in 1974?
Crossing the ocean
Educational Service artistic conception
Lúdica Music and Clara Haddad performance
MPB. In just three letters, a rich story that deserves to be told – and sung, or the acronym wouldn’t stand for Brazilian Popular Music. As the title of this concert promises, we’re going to cross the ocean in search of the myriad musicians and songs with which our sister country has continued to enchant the world for so long.
