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O Homem dos Sonhos

Opera by António Chagas Rosa, based on Mário de Sá-Carneiro
Directed by Miguel Loureiro Artistic Direction and interpretation Catarina Molder
DR
Past event
Dates and Schedules

February 4th to 6th
Friday and Saturday, 20h; Sunday, 17h30

Venue

Sala Luis Miguel Cintra

Duration

1h30m

Price

€12 to €15 (with discounts)

Age Restriction

12A

Description

Ópera Do Castelo debuts in Teatro São Luiz the opera O Homem Dos Sonhos, with music and libretto by the composer António Chagas Rosa,  one of the most relevant contemporary Portuguese composers. A long dreamt project inspired in the dramatic and visionary work with the same name from Mário De Sá Carneiro.

This opera throughout its 7 scenes reflects on the human condition, on the thin line between madness and sanity, dream and reality, assuming humanity’s eternal in-satisfaction and its continuous obsession in transcending the limits of time, space and gender. It’s also about the premonitory and structuring fascination of dream itself, given that it’s the dream that models and guides humanity in its existencial path, both as global society and as individuals. All that we are has perchance been dreamt and transformed into visible matter.

A mysterious and elegant man (embodied by the soprano Catarina Molder, the poet’s alter-ego) has managed to reach supreme happiness, by transcending the border of dreams, overcoming the fastidious life’s routine, and living all which was dreamt: traveling in dreams to countries of new and indescribable colors, to cities where the gas they breathed was made of music, to countries with more than two genders, where the soul was visible and the body, fairly, was not…

“I dominated the dreams. I dream what i want. I live what i want.”

Cast and Creative

António Chagas Rosa Music and Libretto Jan Wierzba Musical Direction Miguel Loureiro Staging André Guedes Scenography João Telmo Costumes Daniel Worm Light Design JORGE SERIGADO Sound Design Catarina Molder (Soprano) Man Of Dreams Christian Luján (baritone) Narrator VASCO SANTOS E PEDRO SANTOS extras MPMP Ensemble Pedro Vieira de Almeida or Dana Radu (piano), paula Carneiro (violin), Ângela Carneiro (cello), Miguel Costa (clarinet), Miguel Polido (saxophone), Hugo Pedrosa (trombone), João Aibeo (tuba), Fernando Brites (accordion), Pedro Vicente (double bass), Cristiano Rios (percussion) AUTHORS OF THE WORKS REPRESENTED IN THE PANELS (by order of entrance) Gunta Stölzl, Théo Van Doesburg, Jean e Joël Martel, Jean-Émile Puiforcat and Maison Dominique (André Domin e Marcel Genevrière), Marcel Guillemard, Maurice Marinot, Jaromir Krejcar PRODUCTION Ópera do Castelo PRODUCTION COORDINATION Mariana Antunes PRODUCTION ASSISTANCE Vasco Santos SUBTITLES Francisco Lima da Silva COSTUMES ASSISTANCE Janine Sena MASTER SEWER Aldina Luz Acknowledgements Otelo Lapa, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Orquestra Metropolitana, Junta de Freguesia de Santa Maria Maior Maecenas Caixa Cultura Co-production Ópera do Castelo, Projecto Travessa da Ermida, Cine-Teatro Avenida, Teatro Viriato, Teatro Municipal da Guarda e São Luiz Teatro Municipal

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