When you get the chance to attend free inspirational Opera concerts at Aliados, in Porto, you take it!

The inspirational "Concertos na Avenida" are back to Porto in Aliados on 6 and 7 September, scheduled for 10 pm. The concerts will be delivered by the Casa da Música Baroque Orchestra, starting at 10pm. Entrance is free.

Music lovers are presented with the usual Classical Music concerts that summer season brings to the city of Porto. Everyone is invited to these concerts that feature the Baroque music genre, a heavily ornamented style of music that came out of the Renaissance.

The first concert, on 6 September, features a repertoire that includes Jean-Féry Rebel, an innovative French Baroque composer and violinist, presenting "Le chaos" from "Les éléments"; it follows ?090 Handel "Qual nave smarrita" from "Radamisto", Handel - Partenope "Furibondo spira il vento", G.F. Handel - Suite in F major, HWV 348 ( Water Music)
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This first concert concludes with Vivaldi, the Italian Baroque music composer, well-known across Europe and also a virtuoso violinist, teacher, and priest, with "Concerto for Violin, 2 Oboes, Bassoon and 2 Horns in F major RV 569, Les Ambassadeurs".

Acclaimed conductor and countertenor Dmitry Sinkovsky is in charge of the musical direction.

The second concert evening, on 7 September, also at 10pm, holds the heritage of French Romantic composer by Hector Berlioz and "Roman Carnival"; also, "Dance of the Hours", a short ballet and the act 3 finale of the opera La Gioconda, by the Italian composer Amilcare Ponchielli; Eric Coates follows with "Knightsbridge March", and then "Koanga", an opera with music by Frederick Delius; it follows "The Three Cornered Hat", suite from the ballet by Manuel de Falla, Astor Piazzolla La Milonga del Angel as well, and the evening concludes with "Mason Bates Mothership".

Musical direction by Baldur Brönnimann.

Enjoy these classical concerts, organised by Porto City Hall and the Foundation Casa da Música.