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Between September 5th and 20th, the Óbidos Opera Festival traces a symbolic arc between Light & Darkness, exploring the choices that define the human condition.
Programme 2026
Gala Meeting of the Titans
Mozart · Weber · Beethoven
Cinderella or The Triumph of Kindness
La Cenerentola ossia Il Trionfo o Della Bontà
by Gioachino Rossini
Cain or The First Homicide
Cain, overo Il Primo Omicidio
by Alessandro Scarlatti
Recital Stories in Song
From Purcell to Britten: 300 Years of Shakespearean Passion
Orpheus and Eurydice
by Christoph Willibald Gluck
From the triumph of goodness to the fall into darkness, from the redeeming power of art to the inner conflict of the human being, the works in this edition evoke the humanist ideals that emerge from the Enlightenment and traverse the history of music.
