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Oportunidades Cascais Ópera: do Festival de Glyndebourne a experiências imersivas

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Participar no Cascais Ópera significa muito mais do que competir, o concurso tem-se afirmado como um espaço onde surgem oportunidades inesperadas e diferenciadoras — experiências artísticas que cruzam fronteiras, aproximam diferentes linguagens e podem abrir portas em alguns dos palcos mais prestigiados do mundo.

Foi assim no Festival Lumina, em Cascais, que se realizou em Setembro de 2025, com a instalação Visual Piano, obra interativa do artista alemão Laurenz Theinert, em que a música se vê e a luz se ouve. Nesta edição, dois vencedores do Cascais Ópera — a soprano Sílvia Sequeira (Prémio Teresa Berganza 2024) e o barítono Viktor Aksentijević (Prémio Maurício Bensaude 2025) — juntaram-se ao Deejay Thimo numa performance imersiva que se destacou como um dos grandes momentos do festival.

Do mesmo modo, três concorrentes da 2.ª edição do concurso receberam convites para realizar audições para o Festival de Glyndebourne de 2028, em Inglaterra — um dos festivais internacionais de ópera mais prestigiados e exigentes.

Estas conquistas demonstram que o Cascais Ópera é mais do que um concurso: é um palco para oportunidades artísticas e profissionais, capaz de projetar jovens talentos para novas experiências e horizontes culturais que geram oportunidades profissionais  que moldarão as suas carreiras.

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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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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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