2022 will be a year of premieres in new theaters across the country.
The 15th edition of the Season premieres at the Lisbon Coliseum, with a new and original version of the ballet “The Rite of Spring”, by Stravinsky. Starred by Vortice Dance Company, it is a new approach to Stravinsky’s work, made in the light of a technological era, uniting the languages of dance and music in a unique sensory experience. With choreography by Cláudia Martins and Rafael Carriço and musical direction by conductor Nuno Côrte-Real.
In the North, Temporada Darcos will be at Casa da Música in Porto for the first time with two unique musical moments.
In September, with the concert “Uma Rosa na Escuridão – Mallarmé and Mário de Sá Carneiro”, as part of the Portugal-France Cruzada Season. It presents itself as a musical exchange with one of the most renowned French ensembles of contemporary music, the Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain, and with its musical director, Bruno Mantovani. The same concert will take place internationally, at the Grand Théâtre de La Comète Saint-Éttienne, in France.
And in October with Shlomo Mintz, one of the greatest violinists of our time, he will visit Portugal accompanied by the Madrid Soloists Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Nuno Côrte-Real.
In partnership with the University of Lisbon, the season will feature a series of chamber and symphonic concerts in various spaces of the University, with emphasis on the Chimico Amphitheater of the National Museum of Natural History and Science, and the Aula Magna of the Rectory. Concerts performed by Ensemble Darcos as “Canticle of Thanksgiving offered to Divinity by a Convalescent”, with one of Beethoven’s last quartets and an adaptation of four preludes from Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, and “Great Piano Quartets” with works by J .Brahms and A. Dvořák.
Internationally, namely in Spain, the chamber opera “La Vida Secreta” will be presented, with music by Nuno Côrte-Real, libretto by Martha Asunción Alonso and staging by Carlos Antunes, in a co-production with the Little Opera Festival, by Zamora. A pocket opera about the surrealist world of Spanish painter Salvador Dalí, but seen through the eyes of his companion and muse Gala, performed by Spanish soprano Conchi Moyano.
The critically acclaimed project “Time Stands Still” will continue its tour this year with concerts at the CCB – Centro Cultural de Belém and at the Teatro-Cine de Torres Vedras.
The Darcos 2022 Season – 15th Edition will continue its journey of excellence, consolidating the work it has been carrying out and presenting new challenges in the face of the times we are going through through a national and international circulation and an important work of archiving and dissemination of Portuguese musical heritage within and across borders.