OPERAFEST LISBOA & OEIRAS 2025 is coming

7th August and 16th September
"Forbidden loves"

The 6th edition of Operafest 2025 in Lisbon & Oeiras, led by soprano Catarina Molder and produced by Ópera do Castelo, revolves around love - this overwhelming force that moves human existence, approaching several cases of forbidden love, haunted by illness and death, by social class, by duty and betrayal, which gave rise to the most extraordinary opera.

Lisbon and Oeiras will resonate opera for everyone, with great classics, inedited, premieres and much more, in new programming partners, which will expand the festival to the greater Lisbon area.

In the unique setting of the Convento da Cartuxa in Caxias, Verdi’s "La Traviata" (7th, 9th and 10th Aug) and an unusual Operatic Rave (8th Aug) with Tó Trips & Fake Latinos, Bateu Matou and DJ Marfox. Marking the presence of baroque opera for the first time at the festival, one of its great pearls, "Dido and Aeneas" by Purcell (29th and 30th Aug), will be performed at the Aula Magna. The national premiere of the opera "Julie" (5th and 6th Sep) by Belgian composer Philippe Boesmans, based on "Miss Julie" by August Strindberg, at Culturgest and the return of "The Magic Flute" by Mozart (12th and 13th Sep) for the whole family, at the Olga Cadaval Cultural Centre, in Sintra.

Operafest also offers workshops on the Alexander technique The liberation of sound (3rd and 4th Sep), Conferences (15th and 16th Sep) to discover the repertoire of this edition, at âmbito cultural of El Corte Inglés and Cine-opera at the Cinemateca Portuguesa, evoking the multiple contagions between opera and cinema and celebrating the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Camilo Castelo Branco!

Welcome to Operafest and the tragic world of opera!