Música no Vale – Gulbenkian Choir and Orchestra

The Gulbenkian Choir and Orchestra, led by conductor Cesário Costa, will kick off the Festas na Rua with a programme of choral and symphonic pieces from opera and musicals. The programme will include arias from Carmen by Bizet, Aida and Nabucco by Verdi, and Madame Butterfly by Puccini. It will also feature Staccato Brilhante to mark the centenary of composer Joly Braga Santos’ birth.

Programme:

Georges Bizet
Carmen: Abertura
Carmen: Marcha e Coro do Ato IV (Toreador)

Carl Maria von Weber
Der Freischütz: Was gleicht wohl aud Erden (Coro dos caçadores)

Jules Massenet
Thaïs : Méditation

Giuseppe Verdi
Aida: Marcha Triunfal Gloria all’Egitto
Nabucco: Va pensiero
La forza del destino: Abertura
Il trovatore: Coro dos ciganos
Requiem: Dies irae / Tuba mirum

Pietro Mascagni
Cavalleria Rusticana: Intermezzo Sinfonico

Giacomo Puccini
Madama Butterfly: Coro a bocca chiusa

Alexander Borodin
Danças Polovtsianas

Joly Braga Santos
Staccato Brilhante

George Gershwin
Porgy and Bess: Oh, I can’t sit down

Leonard Bernstein
West Side Story: Mambo

Carl Orff
Carmina Burana: O Fortuna