© João Luiz

The lights, slowly and imperceptibly, go down. The orchestra tunes up, improvising; the curtain rises and the voices begin to rise. It is one more night at the opera, where we watch the singing body as a herald of pleasure and pain, as loved and rejected and also ill and suffering, all the neatly weaved on stage.

Opera is an art form that has always been obsessed by death, where the victims are usually women.

There are many dead women, so many times. Some women are stabbed, others just simply die of fear, of anguish or love. There are women that die poisoned, strangled, violent deaths, lyric deaths, eloquent or silent deaths.

Carmen and Violette resist social conventions; Norma resists Rome; Tosca resists the police; Turandot resists the Mongol rapist.They die for transgressions to the rules and generally under a man's hand.

"My glory is ended" moans Turandot. The male Sun rises, the Moon sets, the sovereign lord of Marriage and Daylight wins. And to escape it is a crime.

Conception and choreography
Andrea Gabilondo

Live music
Sequenza 3 para voz feminina de Luciano Berio

Recorded music
"La Traviata" de Verdi - "Tosca" e "Turandot" de Puccini, "Lucia de Lammermoor" de Donizetti

Performer
Silvia Mateus - soprano

Light design
Rui Damas

Costumes and props
Susanne Rösler

Production
La Marmita - Pé de Vento