Música
WNMD 2025: Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa • Orchestral Mysteries / Mistérios Orquestrais
The World New Music Days opening concert includes works for voice and orchestra, with the soprano Camila Mandillo performing, together with Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra conducted by Pedro Neves, Lonely Child from 1980 by the Canadian composer Claude Vivier and Mysteries of the Macabre, a piece that combines three arias – between sarcasm and nonsense – from György Ligeti’s opera Le Grand Macabre, rearranged by Elgar Howarth.

30 Mai 2025 | 21h00
WNMD 2025 #2 | 30-05-2025 · 21h00
Centro Cultural de Belém – Grande Auditório
The programme continues with three 21st-century works: Unerasing, by the young composer Jinwook Jung (nominated for the ISCM Young Composers Award), a piece from 2018 in which he musically reflects on the erasure of the colonialist past, proposing in the title an ‘unerasing’ that lays bare the colonial violence nationalisms try to hide; then it's time for Greeting, a calm and luminous work by João Madureira, as if an appreciation; and finally Variazioni di luce, a piece by the Italian composer Sonia Bo that takes the theme from Mozart’s Symphony no. 40 as a source of inspiration.
Pedro Neves · conductor
Camila Mandillo · soprano
Programme:
CLAUDE VIVIER (Canada, 1948–1983)
"Lonely Child" (1980), 17’
JINWOOK JUNG (South Korea, 1994) YCA
"Unerasing" (2018), 10’
ISCM Wallonia-Brussels Section submission
JOÃO MADUREIRA (Portugal, 1971)
"Greeting" (2010), 8’
SONIA BO (Italy, 1960)
"Variazioni di luce" (2022), 11’
Individual submission
GYÖRGY LIGETI (Hungary, 1923-2006)
"Mysteries of the Macabre" (1996), 9’
YCA · ISCM Young Composers Award candidate
Programme notes and more info at: https://www.misomusic.me/wnmd2025-calendar/20250530-2
Tickets available at / Bilhetes disponíveis em: https://ccb.bol.pt/.../155798-world_new_music_days.../
In partnership with Wallonie - Bruxelles International and Instituto Italiano di Cultura Lisbona.