Opera

Tahiti! – PREMIERE

Name: Tahiti! – PREMIERE
Start: 2026-04-17T20:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-04-17T21:00:00+01:00
Location: Centro Cultural de Belém

Elfos - Associação Cultural | Orquestra do Algarve

Dates / Schedules

Small Auditorium

Duração aprox. 95 min.

Ages

Prices

Dates / Schedules

Friday, 17 April 2026 8:00pm

Performed in English. Surtitled in Portuguese

Music

Tahiti! is a double bill of the opera Trouble in Tahiti (1952), by Leonard Bernstein, and Pacific Pleasures (2016–17), by Alannah Marie Halay, with a libretto by Jorge Balça.
Pacific Pleasures will have its national premiere with this production.

Set in a residential suburb like so many others, Tahiti! tells the story of a young couple, Sam and Dinah, who discover that everything they thought they wanted has not made them happy. They still have to find their own Tahiti.

This production uses a variety of dramatic strategies and tools, such as physical theatre and puppetry which, in collaboration with MAC/CCB, are inspired by the work of Paula Rego. Tahiti! imagines a life for the two main characters before Bernstein’s opera, which opens with an argument. How did Sam and Dinah become so unhappy? To what extent had their lives already been mapped out before they began living them? And how much control do they really have over their own lives?

Pre-concert talk by Jorge Balça at 7:30 pm.

The Centro Cultural de Belém Foundation reserves the right to collect, store and use recordings of image, sound and voice, for the purposes of dissemination and for preserving the memory of its cultural and artistic activities, as well as its spaces. Should you require any further information, please contact us at the following email address: privacidade@ccb.pt

©Bruno Simão

Ages

+16

Data sheet

Cast
Mezzo-soprano Inês Constantino
Baritone Ricardo Panela
Baritone Rui Baeta
Tenor Leonel Pinheiro
Soprano Sofia Marafona
Puppeteers Ana Rebelo and Luís Godinho (S.A. Marionetas)

Orchestra
Violins Laurentiu Simões and Helena Duarte
Viola Ângela Silva
Cello Mikhail Shumov
Double Bass Bruno Carneiro
Oboe Luís Figueiredo
Bassoon Catarina Avelãs
Flute Stefania Bernardi
Clarinet Pedro Nuno
Trumpet Jorge Pereira
Horn André Gomes
Percussion José Ramalho
Piano Bernardo Marques
Trombone André Conde

Stage Direction and Set Design Jorge Balça
Music Direction Pablo Urbina
Executive Production and Financial Management Sara Lamares / Fadas e Elfos – Associação Cultural
Lighting Design Wilma Moutinho
Lighting Operation (Cineteatro Louletano and Small Auditorium of Centro Cultural de Belém) Tiago Coelho
Puppet Design and Construction Natacha Costa Pereira / S.A. Marionetas
Puppet Manipulation Coordination José Manuel Valbom Gil, Natacha Costa Pereira, Sofia Olivença Vinagre / S.A. Marionetas
Stage Management Ana Paula Meneses
Rehearsal Pianist Bernardo Marques
Press Office Ana Abrantes and Sara Battesti
Video Recording Bruno Canas
Photography Bruno Simão
Translation and Subtitling Jorge Balça

Co-production Fadas e Elfos – Associação Cultural and Orquestra do Algarve
Support Câmara Municipal de Lagoa, Câmara Municipal de Loulé, Centro Cultural de Belém, Câmara Municipal de Lagos, Égide – Associação Portuguesa das Artes and Junta de Freguesia da Misericórdia
Institutional Support Plano Nacional das Artes and Universidade do Algarve

This project is supported by the Portuguese Republic – Culture, Youth and Sports | DGArtes – Direção-Geral das Artes.

Co-production

Fadas e Elfos – Associação Cultural e Orquestra do Algarve

Prices and Discounts

Note: With reserved seats

Plant

Discounts

DISCOUNTS are only valid for CCB production and/or co-production shows and for tickets with a price above €12, with the exception of CCB cardholders, the discount is applied to values above €8.

50 % people with specific needs and accompanying person
50% for Arts and culture professionals
50% for unemployed

30% for CCB Card’s holders (individual, Senior, Youth and Family)
20% for people over 65 / for under 30s / students / for groups of more than 20 people

Tickets at €5 for Artistic Schools

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Tahiti! – PREMIERE

Elfos - Associação Cultural | Orquestra do Algarve

Dates / Schedules