Trilogia das Barcas by Joly Braga Santos, based on Autos das Barcas (Inferno, Purgatório e Glória) (The Boat Plays – Hell, Purgatory and Heaven) by Gil Vicente, continues to be the most frequently performed opera by a twentieth-century Portuguese composer.
Trilogia das Barcas by Joly Braga Santos, based on Autos das Barcas (Inferno, Purgatório e Glória) (The Boat Plays – Hell, Purgatory and Heaven) by Gil Vicente, continues to be the most frequently performed opera by a twentieth-century Portuguese composer.
We are presented here with a hallucinatory procession that seeks to illustrate all the human vices, errors or virtues.
The Trilogia das Barcas was premièred at São Carlos in 1979, under the musical direction of the composer himself.
The musical direction of the present production will be in the hands of Joana Carneiro.
Teatro Nacional de São Carlos
3 APR 2020 - 20H
5 APR 2020 - 16H