Speaking of the New Year, Fernando Pessoa wrote a poem describing it as ‘The fiction that something is beginning!’ and that, like a river, ‘it begins only in thought’. Well then, let it be in thought. Preferably, inspired by good music. Music has this magic. In its most virtuous form, however centuries-old it may be, it has the power to transform us whenever we attach importance to it. Be it waltzes or polkas… it lends itself to reflection, but also to change. It adds something different to time, which never stops and is always new. The charm of facing another 365 days lies in the fact that they are not yet history, as if they were 365 blank bars of music. Happy 2027!
Concerto de Ano Novo 2027
Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa
Programme to be announced
Pablo Urbina conductor
Pre-concert talk at 4.30 pm with musicologist Rui Campos Leitão.
This event is exclusively for concert ticket holders.
