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ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION FOR CONSUMER DISPUTES
In the event of a consumer dispute, the consumer may resort to the following alternative dispute resolution entity for consumer disputes:

Associação CIVOC – Concurso Internacional Ópera Cascais

NIF 517761637

Passeio do Báltico, n.43-2E 

1990-036 Lisboa

Tel.: +351 213 219 000

Web: cascaisopera.com/

RIGHT OF FREE RESOLUTIONS
In accordance with Portuguese-Law No. 143/2001, Article 6, product returns may be made according to the following clauses:

  1. In distance contracts, the consumer has a minimum period of 14 days to cancel the contract without payment of compensation and without the need to state a reason. For this purpose, the consumer should contact Customer Service via email at [email protected], or by letter to the address Passeio do Báltico, n.43-2E 1990-036 Lisboa.
  2. For the exercise of this right, the period is counted:
    1. Regarding the supply of goods, from the day of their receipt by the consumer, provided that the obligations referred to in Article 5 of this same decree have been met;
    2. If the supplier has not fulfilled the obligations referred to in Article 5 of this decree, the period referred to in No. 1 is three months from the date of receipt of the goods by the consumer.
    3. If the supplier fulfills the obligations referred to in Article 5 of this decree during the resolution period referred to in the previous number and before the consumer has exercised this right, the consumer has 14 days to cancel the contract from the date of receipt of this information.
  3. If the supplier has not fulfilled the obligations referred to in Article 7 of this decree, the period referred to in No. 1 is three months from the date of receipt of the goods by the consumer.
  4. If the supplier fulfills the obligations referred to in Article 7 of this decree during the resolution period referred to in the previous number and before the consumer has exercised this right, the consumer has 14 days to cancel the contract from the receipt of this information.
  5. Without prejudice to the provisions of subparagraph a) of No. 3 of the previous article, the right to cancel is considered exercised by the consumer through the dispatch, within the periods provided for here, of a registered letter with acknowledgment of receipt communicating to the other party or the person designated for this purpose the intention to cancel the contract.

Over the past three decades, primarily in London, Portugal and Amsterdam, Dr Jorge Balça
has developed a strong portfolio of work and a unique combination of skillsets – as a stage
director (of theatre, opera, and hybrid forms), a teacher and workshop leader, a presentation
skills, acting and creativity coach, and practice-based researcher. His work in all these
domains is distinguished by his commitment to and skill in making fantasy and invention
emerge from precise knowledge and training – and by his ability to inspire a similar alchemy
in his collaborators.

Classically trained as an actor and countertenor, he studied theatre directing in London and
Moscow, specialising in Shakespeare, techniques of adaptation, Meyerhold and commedia
dell’arte. Jorge also holds a PhD exploring the dramatic training of opera performers.
With a love for site-specific projects and collaborative forms, and an equal flair for comedy
and drama, his work is dramaturgically inventive, visually striking, and physically engaged.
He was the artistic director of Bloomsbury Opera and associate director of The Opera
Makers, both in London. In Portugal, he has recently directed L’Heure Espagnole and The
Turn of the Screw at Centro Cultural de Belém, and Don Giovanni and La Voix Humaine at
Festival de Ópera de Óbidos.

Jorge is committed to his work as a teacher, having taught at the Dutch National Opera
Academy, Morley College London, Universidade de Évora and other institutions. He
maintains an international coaching private practice and is the acting coach at the Neil
Semer Vocal Institute in Italy.

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