The National Dance Company (CNB) will open the Festival ao Largo on July 11 at Largo de São Carlos in Lisbon, before the National Theatre of São Carlos (TNSC) closes for renovation works.
According to the programme announced on Thursday, the CNB will once again be in charge of opening the Festival ao Largo, with a review of the “Sinfonia dos Psalmos”, a work created by Vasco Wellenkamp in 1992 for the Gulbenkian Ballet, and with the interpretation of “Minus 16”, by Ohad Naharin.
This is the 16th edition of the Festival ao Largo, an open-air event with free admission, in Chiado, next to the TNSC, which proposes 16 shows and 25 activities, including workshops for young people and families, bringing together the artistic bodies of the CNB, the Portuguese Symphony Orchestra and the choir of that national theater.
The Gulbenkian Orchestra will join the festival on July 15 and 16under the direction of Pedro Amaral, to perform works by Joly Braga Santos, in the year that marks the centenary of the birth of this composer.
The program also highlights, for the first time, “the screening of major opera productions, arriving from international stages”, all of them dedicated to the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi, in particular “La traviata”, “Il trovatore” and “Nabucco”.
Opening itself to world music, the Largo Festival will host, on July 23 and 24, “two groups that celebrate youth, joy and fraternity”, with the Ketuk Quartet and the Batucadeiras das Olaias.
The Portuguese Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Maestro Antonio Pirolli, and the Choir of the National Theatre of São Carlos present a concert version of the opera “Cavalleria rusticana” by Pietro Mascagni.
According to the Organisation for Artistic Production (Opart), this year’s Largo Festival will be the last in Largo de São Carlos, while the “deep requalification works” of the national theatre are carried out, planned within the framework of the Recovery and Resilience Programme (PRR).
The National Theater of São Carlos will close to the public on August 1, when the Festival ao Largo ends and, in future editions, the festival “will expand to other spaces”, although which ones have not been revealed.
During the redevelopment works, the national theatre team will temporarily settle in the Tribunal da Boa Hora, in Lisbonwhile his artistic activity will travel throughout the country.
The PRR for Culture plans to invest 27.93 million euros in the redevelopment of the National Theatre building.
Source: Observadora
