Jornal de Leiria – A ballet from Brazil, two Easter concerts and a Desconcerto

Second weekend of the 42nd Music Festival in Leiria, which takes the show to the José Lúcio da Silva Theater Pedra Doce – Poetics by Cora Coralina.

The production that arrives from Brazil, conceived by artistic director Fran Mello, seeks, according to the presentation shared in site from the Dance Company of the City of Niterói, “correlating physicality with reading, sentence by sentence” and “resonating in the body in direct dialogue with the words of the poems” by the author from Goiás, who published for the first time when she was already 75 years old. Saturday, March 23rd, starting at 9:30 pm (ticket: 7.50 euros).

At the same time, but in the Batalha Monastery Church, with free entry, the Festival Música em Leiria (organized by Orfeão de Leiria) offers an Easter concert starring the DECA Choir and Wind Ensemble from the University of Aveiro, directed by maestro Vasco Negreiros, who will perform the Mass in E Minor by Anton Bruckner (on the 200th anniversary of the Austrian composer’s birth).

On Sunday, March 24th, another Easter concert, also free, taking place at 6pm at the Church of São Pedro, in Porto de Mós, with the Camerata do Orfeão de Leiria (directed by Mário Teixeira), the Coro Ninfas do Lis (directed by Mário Nascimento) and Rute Martins (organ).

Finally, still on Sunday, and in conjunction with the Pombal Theater Festival, the clarinet and percussion group Ad Libitum takes the show to Teatro-Cine de Pombal (7 pm, 3 euros) Bewildermentwhich combines music with staging.