Summer Choral Festival
For the opening of its 8th edition at the Centro Cultural de Belém, the Summer Choral Festival has reserved the choral event of the year: the premiere of Linhagem, by Eurico Carrapatoso, a commemorative show celebrating the 500th anniversary of Ferdinand Magellan’s circumnavigation of the globe. In addition to Portuguese choirs, this year the festival will be bringing choirs from Slovenia, Spain, Ireland, Croatia and Germany to Lisbon. Conductor Paulo Lourenço is the artistic director and the jury will consist of an international panel: Lim Ai Hooi (Singapore), Eugene Rogers (USA), Jonathan Velasco (Philippines) Elisenda Carrasco (Spain) and Pedro Teixeira (Portugal).
21 June
World Premiere of Eurico Carrapatoso’s “Linhagem”
CCB Main Auditorium – 21:00
1 hour – no interval | over 6s
Free admission, subject to capacity. Tickets can be picked up from the CCB ticket office from 18:00.
Summer Choral Festival Participatory Choir, ECCE Choir and the Beiras Philharmonic Orchestra
Cecília Rodrigues, soprano
João Rodrigues, tenor
Paulo Lourenço, conductor
World Premiere of LINHAGEM by the acclaimed Portuguese composer Eurico Carrapatoso. A work commemorating the five centuries since the first voyage of circumnavigation under the command of Ferdinand Magellan, which was completed (in the known waters of the Portuguese Indian Ocean) by the Basque Juan Sebastián Elcano.
Linhagem attempts to draw a line, inspired by the clinical eye of Fernando Pessoa and the great beacon of Portuguese identity that he managed to achieve in his book of poems ‘Mensagem’. The piece also includes texts by D. Dinis, Joam Zorro, António Machado and Camilo Pessanha.
22 June
International Choir Competition
CCB Main Auditorium
Session 1
13:30 – 15:00
Session 2
15:30– 17:00
Free admission subject to available seats
Over 6s
23 June
Open-air choral group performances
Free admission
CCB Pedestrian Walkway
16:00
SOLinSI (Portugal)
Youth Choir of the Associação Musical e Artística Lourinhanense (Portugal)
Academic Choir France Prešeren Kranj (Slovenia)
Lisbon Community Choir (Portugal)
Voblaninas del Conservatorio del Nalón (Spain)
Jazz Vocals (Germany)
Nova Era Vocal Ensemble (Portugal)
Jardim Vasco da Gama
16:00
Jazz Vocals (Germany)
Nova Era Vocal Ensemble (Portugal)
Coro de Câmara e Outros Cantos (Portugal)
WIT Youth Choir (Ireland)
SOLinSI (Portugal)
Youth Choir of the Associação Musical e Artística Lourinhanense (Portugal)
Museu de Marinha – Pavilhão das Galeotas
18:00
WIT Youth Choir (Ireland)
Academic Choir France Prešeren Kranj (Slovenia)
Voblaninas del Conservatorio del Nalón (Spain)
Lisbon Community Choir (Portugal)
Coro de Câmara e Outros Cantos (Portugal)
Mosteiro dos Jerónimos
21:30
Jazz Vocals (Germany)
WIT Youth Choir (Ireland)
Academic Choir France Prešeren Kranj (Slovenia)
SOLinSI (Portugal)
Voblaninas del Conservatorio del Nalón (Spain)
Coro de Câmara e Outros Cantos (Portugal)
Nova Era Vocal Ensemble (Portugal)
24 June
CCB Main Auditorium
19:00
2 hours – no interval
Over 6s
Performances by all participating choirs
Awards ceremony
Joint performance by participating choirs
Free admission, subject to capacity. Tickets can be picked up from the CCB ticket office from 17:00.