Naked City – Poems for an imaginary city Lisbon Poetry Orchestra

It's Christmas.

Cities light up, enveloping us in nostalgia, colour and warmth. The real city fades away and is replaced by the concept of a pacified world. But, at a time when the world is undergoing major upheavals, the city is also facing new challenges and changes. In Naked City, the Lisbon Poetry Orchestra paves the way for an imaginary cartography of the cities of the future, in a show whose raw material is music and poetry.

Poems

A Cidade é um Chão de Palavras Pisadas, Ary dos Santos
Há-de Flutuar uma Cidade no Crepúsculo da Vida, Al Berto
Natal de 1971, Jorge de Sena
A Cidade Está Oculta, Fernando Lemos
O Poeta em Lisboa, António José Forte
A Cidade de Palaguin, Carlos Eurico dos Santos
Poema de Natal, Vinicius de Moraes
Chove. É Dia de Natal, Fernando Pessoa
Natal Up-To-Date, David Mourão Ferreira
Natal, Eduardo Valente da Fonseca
Estamos Dentro dos Dias, João Luís Barreto Guimarães
Ontem à Tarde um Homem das Cidades, Alberto Caeiro
Cidade, Sophia de Mello Breyner
Roteiro de Lisboa, Maria Teresa Horta
Lisboa, Adília Lopes
Aleppo, Calais, Lesbos, ou, Por Outras Palavras, Ana Luísa Amaral
A Cidade Invisível, Maria do Rosário Pedreira

Songs by Alexandre Cortez, Luís Filipe Valentim, Sérgio Costa, Mário João Santos, Luís Bastos and Tiago Inuit

Lisbon Poetry Orchestra Alexandre Cortez Electric bass and programming Luís Bastos Clarinet and Saxophone Filipe Valentim Keyboards José Anjos Vocals, Guitar and Percussion Mário Santos Drums Paula Cortes Vocals Nuno Miguel Guedes Vocals Sérgio Costa Electric Guitar Guests Francisco Ramos Violin Gospel Collective Vocals Patrícia Relvas Vocals Tiago Rosas Cello Ustad Fazel Sapand Sitar and Rubab

Nuno Sampaio Production Director Miguel Berger, Paulo Santiago Production Sara Silva Production Assistant António Silva Communication Manuel San Payo FOH Sound Rodrigo Pacheco Sound Monitoring Joana Mário Lighting Sérgio Barata Stage Curt.eZ Scenography