Name: American Evening: Labyrinth & A Hand of Bridge
Start: 2022-08-27T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-08-28T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga

Organization

OperaFest Lisboa

Conductor

Tiago Oliveira

Stage director

Bruno Bravo

Set designer

Inês Peres

Costume designer

Lighting designer

Pedro Santos

Stage direction assistance

Joana Campelo

Singer

Baritone

Tiago Amado Gomes

Groom

Soprano

Cecília Rodrigues

Bride

Mezzo-soprano

Ana Ferro

Tenor

Alberto Sousa

Chess player

The Astronaut

The Italian Opera Singer

Actor

Maria Velez

Laura Baptista

Teresa Correia

Diogo Mazur

Gonçalo Cotrim

Natacha Esteves

Geraldine

Contralto

Sally

Bill

David

Orchestra

Ensemble MPMP

English

American Evening: Labyrinth & A Hand of Bridge

Lisbon

Portugal

Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga

American Evening Labyrinth (National Premiere) & A Hand of Bridge: The Labyrinth Menotti (+1 More)

Public

The Labyrinth

A Hand of Bridge

Portuguese

Approved

Accordionist

Instrumentalist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Theorbist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Broadcasting

Choir

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Chorus Director

Chorus master

Composer

Dancer

Dramaturge

Executive producer

Extra

Hairstylist

Illustrator

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Makeup artist

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Photographer

Poet

Repetiteur

Sound designer

Stage Manager

Teacher

Translator

Video designer

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Bass

Countertenor

Bass-baritone

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

An American evening proposing two operatic pearls by longtime companion composers Italian/American  Gian-Carlo Menotti and American Samuel Barber. After the remarkable success of Menotti’s Medium production in its last edition, Operafest Lisboa committed to revealing more about this fascinating composer, presents in national premiere Labyrinth (1963). Created to be exclusively presented in cinema or tv format, this intriguing opera - an operatic riddle as the composer himself called it, evokes the labyrinth of life and of destiny and its unexpected paths to unravel. The promised happiness is devoured by life’s obstacles and disenchantments in a story about a fresh married couple lost in a hotel corridor who can't find the key to their room. Searching for help, they meet all these bizarre characters who manipulate them without giving the so desired answer, until the tragic ending. A symbolic evocation of human existential questions still waiting for an answer and the path to the unknown that life itself represents.
 
The second operatic dish of the evening, the jazzistic brief opera A Hand of Bridge, is after all a pretext to unravel our feelings and occult desires with which, we permanently live, during an apparent hand of bridge between two couples.

Propõe-se uma noite americana com duas pérolas operáticas do compositor italo-americano Gian-Carlo Menotti e do compositor americano Samuel Barber, companheiros de longa data. Em estreia nacional "Labirinto" de Gian-Carlo Menotti. Depois do êxito da sua ópera A Médium, na edição anterior, Operafest Lisboa dedica-se a dar a conhecer mais sobre este compositor fascinante. Composta para ser exclusivamente apresentada em formato televisivo, esta ópera intrigante – uma adivinha operática como lhe chama o próprio compositor,  evoca o labirinto da vida e do destino, com caminhos inesperados por desvendar. A prometida felicidade devorada pelos obstáculos e desencantos da vida, uma história de um casal, acabado de casar, que não encontra a chave do quarto do hotel em que se encontra, procurando ajuda junto de personagens que habitam o hotel e que os manipulam sem lhes darem a tão ansiada resposta, até ao fim inesperado. Uma evocação quase metafísica das perguntas que ficam por responder, ao longo da existência humana e do caminho desconhecido que é a própria vida.
 
E ainda a breve ópera de toque jazzístico de Samuel Barber, a partir do libreto do próprio Gian-Carlo Menotti Uma Partida de Bridge que é afinal o pretexto para a revelação dos sentimentos e desejos internos ocultos com que todos permanentemente vivemos, num aparente jogo de bridge entre dois casais.

português

American Evening: Labyrinth & A Hand of Bridge by Menotti, Barber, From (2022/2022), Directed by Bruno Bravo,, Conductor Tiago Oliveira, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon, Portugal

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