Municipal Theatre

Open calls for professional artists and companies, Portuguese or foreign, are available until April 4th

Teatro Rivoli will celebrate nine decades of culture for six days, with nine projects, around 90 artists and nine art forms.

One of the main moments of the second half of the 2021/22 programming of Teatro Municipal do Porto is the celebration, in January, of the 90th anniversary of Rivoli. Between April and May, the cities of Porto, Vila Nova de Gaia and Matosinhos host, once again, the DDD –Festival Dias de Dança.

The array of activities that announces Porto Book Fair, one of the most important literary events in the city is the Warm Up, featuring must pick up events to prepare for precious moments. The first of those events kicked off yesterday, with the quartet A Flor do Lácio, and today there is Rui Reininho, outstanding figure in the national music scene. The music from Porto will take the stage at the Theatre Campo Alegre, at 5 pm, to present his newest work “20.000 Éguas Submarinas”.

Eric Rohmer, mostly known as a Post-World war II French New wave film director, has left an established body of work that is celebrated at the silver screen at Campo Alegre, starting this July.

It’s been 20 years that the poetic initiative Quintas de Leitura marks its comeback to the in-person format, with a session at the auditorium of Porto Municipal Theatre, Campo Alegre, at 7.30 pm. Tickets purchased for the postponed session last January are valid.

Rivoli hosts the performance “Dramatículos” staged by Renata Portas, artistic director of the company “Público Reservado”, on 8, 9 and 10 July, at 7.30 pm. On stage, Pedro Manana, Pedro Damião, Cláudia Lázaro and Sílvia Santos will deal with such issues as the human condition and the notion of decay, based on the works by Samuel Beckett.

Figure the following: a couple United by the circus arts that invites audiences to enter the realm of… Circus! This couple, Victor and Kati, literally lie on the floor, they scream for human life, from tears to laughter, happy, sad … Pour le meilleur et pour le pire (For better or for worse). In-person performances, on 30 June, at the Rivoli, at 7.30 pm; online, on 2 and 3 July (available as of 5 pm, on 2 July).

Trengo - Porto Circus Festival is back from 28 June to 4 July. This edition, witness all ten shows that will take to the Parque do Covelo and the Theatre Rivoli. This Trengo is a family version show that features 19 presentations, organised by the company Erva Daninha, jointly with Ágora – Cultura e Desporto.

Tiago Guedes was presented with the highest civilian distinction in France and was appointed Chevalier of The Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Order of Arts and Letters), for his significant contributions to the arts and literature and the exchange of these fields between Portugal and France. The ceremony took place yesterday, at the French Embassy in Portugal, located at the Palácio de Santos, in Lisbon. The Mayor of Porto, Rui Moreira attended the ceremony.