The Man of Dreams [O Homem dos Sonhos]

Ópera Do Castelo debuts in Teatro São Luiz the opera O Homem dos Sonhos, with music and libretto by the composer António Chagas Rosa,  one of the most relevant contemporary Portuguese composers. A long dreamt project inspired in the dramatic and visionary work with the same name from Mário De Sá Carneiro.

A mysterious and elegant man (embodied by the soprano Catarina Molder, the poet’s alter-ego) has managed to reach supreme happiness, by transcending the border of dreams, overcoming the fastidious life’s routine, and living all which was dreamt: traveling in dreams to countries of new and indescribable colors, to cities where the gas they breathed was made of music, to countries with more than two genders, where the soul was visible and the body, fairly, was not…

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