The Antena 2 Festival is bringing live and onto the stage a symbolic part of what can be listened to every day on public radio. This is a proof of life of the diverse content (and performers) that defines Antena 2, presented before the audience’s eyes, and not just out in the ether or the virtual world. The festival includes a wide range of classical music concerts (Orquestra Filarmonia das Beiras, conducted by Jan Wierzba, with harmonica player Gonçalo Sousa taking centre stage; the baroque music group Divino Sospiro, conducted by Massimo Mazzeo; choral music with Voces Caelestes conducted by Sérgio Fontão; chamber music with wind instrument quintet Art’Ventus), as well as the Setúbal Jazz Orchestra, conducted by Carlos Azevedo in a tribute to Zeca Afonso, world music with Cape-Verdean Batucadeiras Finka-Pé, philharmonic music with the renowned National Republican Guard Symphony Band, under the baton of Ricardo Torres, and project Ópera Buzz, which intersects chamber opera, video, scenery and humour. The festival menu also includes Palavras de Bolso (short informal sketches aimed at the younger audiences) and a conference about the paths and challenges faced by schools and education, with five experts and moderated by journalist João Paulo Baltazar. All events will be broadcast on Antena 2 and can also be streamed live online, on RTP Palco.
Programme
29 January
6:30 pm – Foyer and Janelão, 10’
Palavras de Bolso (Ana Isabel Gonçalves and Paula Pina)
7 pm – Sala Luis Miguel Cintra, 60’
Batucadeiras Finka-Pé (Cape Verde)
9 pm – Sala Bernardo Sassetti, 60’
Divino Sospiro (Massimo Mazzeo, conductor)
O Espelho de Roma em Lisboa: works by Pedro António Avondano, Carlos Seixas, Francisco António de Almeida, João Sousa Carvalho, Giovanni Bononcini, Antonio
Mazzoni and Giuseppe Tartini.
30 January
6:30 pm – Foyer and Janelão, 10’
Palavras de Bolso (Ana Isabel Gonçalves and Paula Pina)
7 pm – Sala Luis Miguel Cintra, 60’
Orquestra de Jazz de Setúbal (Carlos Azevedo, conductor)
Em Cada Esquina Um Amigo: music by José Afonso
9 pm – Sala Mário Viegas, 60’
Ópera Buzz (Catarina Rodrigues, Susana Quaresma, voices; Rui Aleixo, voice, video; Mara Santos, accordion)
Based on various operas by Bizet, Rossini, Mozart and others.
31 January
6:30 pm – Foyer and Janelão, 10’
Palavras de Bolso (Ana Isabel Gonçalves and Paula Pina)
7 pm – Sala Luis Miguel Cintra, 60’
Orquestra Filarmonia das Beiras (Jan Wierzba, maestro; Gonçalo Sousa, harmonica)
Works by Tiago Derriça, Gordon Jacobs, Eurico Carrapatoso and Antonín Dvořák.
9 pm – Sala Bernardo Sassetti, 60’
Voces Caelestes (Sérgio Fontão, conductor)
Histórias de amor: works by Gesualdo, Monteverdi, Dowland, Haydn, Schubert, Debussy, Ravel, Cole Porter, John Lennon/Paul McCartney and others.
1 February
3 pm – 6 pm – Sala Mário Viegas, 180’
Conference: What to teach and learn, how and for what purpose? Challenges of compulsory schooling (João Paulo Baltazar, moderator; panellists: Ariana Cosme, Nuno Crato, Joana Rato, Pedro Santa-Clara, Ana Mira Vaz and Mário Rocha)
6:30 pm – Foyer and Janelão, 10’
Palavras de Bolso (Ana Isabel Gonçalves and Paula Pina)
7 pm – Sala Luis Miguel Cintra, 60’
GNR Symphony Band (Ricardo Torres, conductor)
Works by Alexandre Almeida, Joaquim Luiz Gomes, Luís Cardoso and Nelson Jesus.
9 pm – Sala Bernardo Sassetti, 60’
Art’Ventus Quintet (Paula Soares, flute; Tiago Coimbra, oboe; Horácio Ferreira, clarinet; Nuno Vaz, French horn; Raquel Saraiva, bassoon)
Works by Frederico de Freitas, Luis Carvalho, Anne Victorino D’Almeida and Joly Braga Santos.
