Vale do Silêncio
Gulbenkian Orchestra and Choir
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Date
- 21:30 / Cancelled 21:30 / Sold out Saturday, 21:30
Location
Parque Vale do Silêncio Av. Cidade de Lourenço Marques, OlivaisPricing
- Free entry
- Alena Hron Conductor
- Presenter
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Gulbenkian Choir
Coro Gulbenkian was founded in 1964 by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation as a full symphonic body of around 100 singers. The choir joins the Orquestra Gulbenkian and other orchestras to perform Classical, Romantic and Contemporary choral-symphonic repertoire, but can also perform a cappella. It has performed – and often premiered – many 20th century works by Portuguese and international composers.
Coro Gulbenkian has been invited to collaborate with major international orchestras, under the direction of conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Colin Davis, John Nelson, Emmanuel Krivine, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Frans Brüggen, Franz Welser-Möst, Gerd Albrecht, Michael Gielen, Michael Tilson Thomas, Rafael Frübeck de Burgos, René Jacobs and Leonard Slatkin, among others.
Besides its regular season of concerts in Lisbon and frequent national tours, Coro Gulbenkian has repeatedly toured Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Japan, Macao, Malta, Monaco, Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States of America and Uruguay.
Coro Gulbenkian has recorded extensively for Philips, Deutsche Grammophon, Erato, Cascavelle, Musifrance, as well as FNAC-Music, performing a wide range of repertoire, from Early-Renaissance polyphony to Xenakis. Several of these albums received international awards.
Michel Corboz was the Principal Conductor between 1969 and 2019. Jorge Matta and Inês Tavares Lopes are currently the Associate and Assistant conductors, respectively.
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Gulbenkian Orchestra
In 1962, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation decided to establish a permanent orchestral ensemble. Originally with only twelve musicians (strings and continuo) it was named “Orquestra de Câmara Gulbenkian”. This collective was successively enlarged and today the “Orquestra Gulbenkian” (the name it has adopted since 1971) has a permanent body of sixty instrumentalists, a number that can be expanded depending on the repertoire.
This structure allows the Gulbenkian Orchestra to interpret works from the Baroque and Classical periods, a significant part of 19th century orchestral literature and much of the music of the 20th century, including works belonging to the current repertoire of the traditional symphonic orchestras. In each season, the orchestra performs on a regular series of concerts at the Gulbenkian Grand Auditorium in Lisbon, where it has had the opportunity of working together with some of leading names of the world of music (conductors and soloists). It has also performed on numerous locations all over Portugal, in an effort to decentralize music and culture.
The orchestra has been constantly expanding its activities in the international level, performing in Europe, Asia Africa, and the Americas. In the recording field, Orquestra Gulbenkian is associated to labels as Philips, Deutsche Grammophon, Hyperion, Teldec, Erato, Adès, Nimbus, Lyrinx, Naïve and Pentatone, among others, and this activity was recognized with several international prizes.
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Cláudia Semedo
Apresentadora
Cláudia Semedo é atriz e apresentadora de televisão. Nascida em Oeiras em 1983, completou o Curso de Interpretação da Escola Profissional de Teatro de Cascais em 2001 e licenciou-se em Jornalismo na Escola Superior de Comunicação Social em 2012.
É presidente da Companhia de Atores e diretora artística do Teatro Municipal Amélia Rey Colaço, desde janeiro de 2017.
George Gershwin
Giacomo Puccini
Florence Price
Georges Bizet
Carl Maria von Weber
Antonín Dvořák
Giuseppe Verdi
Augusta Holmès
Manuel de Falla
Georges Bizet
As in recent years, the Gulbenkian Music season opens in the idyllic setting of Vale do Silêncio, in Lisbon, with a free-entry concert where everyone will be able to hear some of the most emblematic and captivating works of the classical repertoire. Part of the Festas na Rua programme, this unmissable musical journey will take us from the timeless operas of Bizet, Puccini and Verdi to twentieth-century compositions by George Gershwin and Florence Price, in the best of company with the Gulbenkian Orchestra and Choir.
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