Paulo Gaio Lima Festival
Please be advised that the concert scheduled for 30 March has been cancelled.
The Festival will take place on 28 and 29 March.
You can request a refund of your ticket price until Monday 31 March at the theatre box office, between 3pm and 7pm. In the case of online purchase at infoblueticket3@blueticket.pt .
For more information: 213 257 651 / bilheteira@teatrosaoluiz.pt .
Every two years, the Metropolitana has set out to celebrate the cello by evoking the memory of Paulo Gaio Lima, cello player and teacher who passed away in 2021. In 2023, the stage at Teatro São Luiz hosted, in consecutive days, the second Shostakovich concert and the second Haydn concert. Now it’s time for the first Shostakovich concert and the only Schumann concert. In tune with the spirit of passing down a legacy, that was so dear to Gaio Lima, two soloists from distant generations will be performing: the young Bernardo Ferreira, winner of the first edition of the Festival’s Award, and Pieter Wispelwey, renowned cellist with over 20 albums released and teacher at the Amsterdam Conservatory.
Programme 3 | 28 March – buy ticket
Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa
Dmitri Schostakovich, Cello and Orchestra Concerto No. 1
Dmitri Schostakovich, Chamber Symphony, Op. 83a (Rudolf [RM1] Barshai’s orchestration)
Soloist: Bernardo Ferreira (cello; winner of the first edition of the Paulo Gaio Lima Award)
Conductor: Pedro Neves
Programme 2 | 29 March – buy ticket
Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa
Robert Schumann, Cello Concerto
Robert Schumann, Symphony No. 2
Soloist: Pieter Wispelwey
Conductor: Pedro Neves
