Canto da Europa [postponed]

Canto da Europa is a work that sings a continent by looking at it from one of its corners which is Portugal situated at a Europe’s corner, singing the continent of its dreams and realities.

After a text written by Jacinto Lucas Pires and staged by Ana Borralho and João Galante, Nuno Maló’s work will be performed by the São Carlos Opera House Choir and by the Portuguese Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Joana Carneiro.

A meeting between theatre and music, this performance is also marked by the confrontation between contemporaneity and erudition. This is the path followed by the artistic team to sing a continent, itself  made of confrontations of epochs, ideas and cultures.

A story stemmed from other stories , all narrated and sung by a choir of citizens-gods, between utopia of the Continent of Democracy and the rape of Europe happening these days through injustice and inequalities, terrorism and indifference, Canto da Europa is a multilingual love letter that speaks to us about the 24 hours of a continent’s life following different

Music | Nuno Maló

Text | Jacinto Lucas Pires

Conductor | Joana Carneiro

Director and Stage set | Ana Borralho e João Galante

Light designer | Thomas Walgrave

Artistic collaboration | Fernando J. Ribeiro

Costumes | Ana Borralho, João Galante, Rita Mendes

Coro do Teatro Nacional de São Carlos
Principal Conductor | Giovanni Andreoli

Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa
Principal Conductor | Joana Carneiro

World Premiere

Co-production | TNSC / TNDMII