Festival ao Largo offers one month of free and open air music and ballet.
Teatro Nacional de São Carlos brings free classical music and ballet to Lisbon and its tourists.
Between June 27 and July 27, there are 18 shows to see in the Largo de São Carlos, with protagonists as the Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra, National Ballet Company, Macao Chinese Orchestra and the Chorus of the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, celebrating this year, 70 years old.
The first moment of the Festival ao Largo (27 and 28 June, 21h30) belongs to the chorus of the theater, in the year that celebrates 70 years of activity. The singer Fiorenza Cossotto will be there.
On 1 July, the theater opens the doors to its Great Hall, to the Metropolitan Orchestra of Lisbon, in the only concert that will not be outdoors and is scheduled for 18h00.
On July 14, France will be celebrated with the show “French Swing Café”. Two days later, the Macao Chinese Orchestra will show the public traditional Chinese instruments and Chinese choreographies.
The closure belongs to the National Ballet Company. After last year have led “Swan Lake”, the Company is preparing to submit, on the nights of 25, 26 and July 27, “Orpheus and Eurydice”. Over three hundred years of the birth of Christoph Willibald Gluck, the CNB commissioned Olga Roriz this ballet, based on the music of the German composer.
For sure, not to miss.
Written from here.