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This concert brings together three masters of French opera. Without resorting to operatic music, and only through instrumental expression, their scores enliven the fantasy of puppet stories and the time of kings and knights-errant. The right programme for the whole family!
Programme
JULES MASSENET (1842-1912)
“Le Roman d’Arlequin”
CHARLES GOUNOUD (1818-1893)
“Marcha fúnebre para uma Marioneta”
LÉO DÉLIBES (1836-1891)
“Le Roi s’amuse”
Henrique Constância, Conductor
Rui Baeta, Barítone
Orquestra do Algarve
17/03
LOULÉ
Cineteatro Louletano
11.30am
Tickets: 3€ > on sale at www.cineateatrolouletano.bol.pt
Informations: 289 414 604
Município de Loulé, Organization
Aquashow Park Hotel, Support
Live Music, Support
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HENRIQUE CONSTÂNCIA
Conductor
Henrique Constância was born in 1997 on the island of São Miguel, Azores, where he began his musical studies. He studied cello at the Academia Nacional Superior de Orquestra, and later at the Conservatory of Amsterdam.
His training in orchestra conducting includes the Conservatory of Amsterdam and the Italian Conducting Academy in Milan, mentored by conductors such as Ed Spanjaard, Antony Hermus, and Gilberto Serembe.
As an assistant conductor of the Orquestra de Câmara Portuguesa and Jovem Orquestra Portuguesa, he had the opportunity to work with various names of the music scene in Portugal. Under his leadership, JOP premiered "Between Trees" (2021) by Norwegian composer Kristine Tjøgersen and performed at the Konzerthaus in Berlin at the Young Euro Classic festival in 2022 in a live broadcast concert by ARTE TV. In 2023, he conducted Igor Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring" with the Portuguese Chamber Orchestra and the National Ballet Company, featuring the original choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky. He performed as guest conductor with Orquestra do Algarve and Orquestra Filarmonia das Beiras.
Henrique Constância is the Artistic and Pedagogical Coordinator of the Cidnay Festival and Academy, based in Santo Tirso, which includes the participation of acclaimed national and international musicians.
RUI BAETA
Baritone
With orchestras such as the Concertgebouw Camerata, Camerata de Lyon, Porto National, Portuguese Symphony, Metropolitan and the Gulbenkian Foundation, Rui Baeta has developed his artistic career in the main concert halls in Portugal and abroad.
He began his musical studies at the Algarve Regional Conservatoire Maria Campina and the National Conservatoire in Lisbon. He graduated with a specialised degree in singing from the Higher School of Music in Lisbon and studied at the Mozarteum Salzburg in Austria, the Fondation Hindemith in Switzerland and the Academie Francis Poulenc in France. With the pianist Paulo Pacheco, he won the First Young Musicians Prize - Chamber Music Higher Level. At the age of 18 he joined the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Choir, where he began his career as a soloist.
At the age of 25 he made his debut at the National Theatre of São Carlos and since then he has added to his vast operatic and concert repertoire the main baritone roles and solos such as: The Magic Flute, Mozart; La Bohéme, Puccini; I Pagliacci, Leoncavallo; Carmina Burana, Orff; Madama Butterfly, Puccini; Idomeneo, Mozart; Les Contes D'Hoffmann, Offenbach; Hänsel und Gretel, Humperdinck; Ein Deutsches Requiem, Brahms; Petite Messe Solennelle, Rossini; Requiem, Fauré; Requiem, Mozart; Requiem, Bontempo; Weihnachtsoratorium and Ich habe Genug, Bach; Les Nuits D'Été, Berlioz; Des Knaben Wunderhorn and Eines Fahrenden Gesellen, Mahler; As Variedades de Proteu, António Teixeira (CD); O Corvo (CD), A Tabacaria (CD), O Regresso da Norma (CD), As Flores do Mal (CD), Beatriz, Luís Soldado; O Monstro no Labirinto, Jonathan Dove; O Manifesto Nada (CD), António Sousa Dias; and Missa Grande by Marcos de Portugal (CD).
In 2019 he was awarded the Gold Medal of the City of Faro and established the Algarve Orchestra Community Choir, of which he is musical director and vocal coach.
He is currently the artistic director of the Orchestra.
