In this recital, soloists Carla Simões, Inês Constantino, Frederico Projecto and André Henriques join pianist José Brandão and a string quartet to perform arias and ensemble pieces from Mozart’s operas Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte, the two most performed works in Pavilhão Mozart, during the Opera in Prison project.

It is a moment to celebrate this path of new journeys by and with art, which has been 10 years in the making – the time necessary for Mozart to be born a prisoner in the form of a creative space dedicated to the arts, between the pavilions of school, health, warden and guards, and all others, in the Leiria prison. The guests are thus the soloists who, in recent years, joined the prisoners and their families to sing Mozart, taking to the stage of Gulbenkian’s Auditorium 2 to evoke some of the most memorable moments during the project, now called Traction.

This concert is part of the Conference “Building Capabilities: Rethinking the Social Value of Culture”.