opera – François Matarasso

‘Write this down’

It was the end of a long day. We’d run out of time and the guards needed to get us

Today will see the third performance of O Tempo (Somos Nós) , “Time (It’s Us), this time at the Gulbenkian

Between the Traction opera performances in the prison last week, and those that will take place in Lisbon at the

Three days ago, anticipating the first performance of the Leiria prison opera, I wrote that I didn’t expect to see

In the dusty hall of a disused prison workshop, 30 people shuffle into a big circle. Silence falls. They draw

This is the third in a series about how arts and cultural institutions have responded to the pandemic. It draws

There was a spontaneous peal of applause in the Teatro Central at the end of this film yesterday, where I