Os nossos eventos principais e masterclasses
O Cascais Ópera 2025 arranca com a cerimónia de abertura com os discursos dos seus três fundadores: Alexandra Maurício, Diretora Geral, e os Diretores Artísticos Adriano Jordão e Sergei Leiferkus, a dar as boas vindas a concorrentes, membros do júri, parceiros, convidados e às instituições oficiais.
Os candidatos admitidos às atuações presenciais prestarão provas em sessões abertas ao público.
Para a primeira prova, foram selecionados 44 candidatos, que serão progressivamente eliminados ao longo da competição até restarem apenas oito finalistas!
Durante a tarde, realizam-se Masterclasses, para cantores fora da competição, no Auditório Casa das Histórias Paula Rego com Anna Samuil e no Museu Condes Castro de Guimarães com Sergei Leiferkus.
Um concerto imperdível com os talentosos jovens cantores que alcançaram as semifinais, mas que não seguiram para a Final.
Dia da Natureza & Piquenique proporciona aos participantes um momento de pausa para recarregar energias e desfrutar de um dia ao ar livre. Aberto ao público mediante inscrição, é a oportunidade perfeita para relaxar antes da reta final.
Os oito finalistas, selecionados entre candidatos de todo o mundo, sobem ao palco para um concerto final acompanhados pela Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa dirigida pelo Maestro Antonio Pirolli, para disputar os prémios desta edição, num final de tarde de talento, emoção e celebração da ópera.
by members of the Jury. Open to students and singers
As the Juri of the International Vocal Competition includes great singers who simultaneously are great pedagogues, Cascais Opera has the opportunity to provide open masterclasses , also open to the candidates.
In parallel to the competition, Vocal masterclasses will take place in April 9, 12 and 13, at Casa das Histórias Paula Rego, expanding in this way the scope of the event.
Acting on Opera Stage Masterclasses
After a public presentation of Novi Sad Servian National Theatre with photos, short trailers for the operas, notable soloists, costumes and scenography workshops, Senior Opera Director, Aleksandar Nicolic, will lead a masterclass under the attractive and understandable name: “ACTING THROUGH THE SINGING METHODE”.
The active participants in the masterclass shall propose three arias, of which two will be chosen and one prioritize for the work. In three sessions up to nine participants will be accepted.
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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.