The Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa and the Metropolitana Soloists are joining Miso Music Portugal and the International Society for Contemporary Music in programming the World New Music Days, a centenary festival that will be held in Portugal for the first time in 2025. In this Opening Concert of the festival, soprano Camila Mandillo joins the OML and conductor Pedro Neves to interpret the anguishing beauty that resonates in Claude Vivier’s Lonely Child and the exuberance of Ligeti’s opera Mysteries of the Macabre. Completing the program, among other pieces, is one of the last testimonies to the important legacy of Constança Capdeville and a “salute” by João Madureira to contemporary Portuguese music.

World New Music Days
Festival Opening Concert
Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra

Sonia Bo Variazione di luce
Claude Vivier Lonely Child, soprano and orchestra
João Madureira Greetings
Jinwook Jung Unerasing
György Ligeti Mysteries of the Macabre, for soprano and chamber orchestra (arr. E. Howarth)

Camila Mandillo soprano
Pedro Neves conductor