About
Organised by ABA – Banda de Alcobaça, Associação de Artes, with the institutional support of the Municipality of Alcobaça and the Portuguese Directorate-General for the Arts, Cistermúsica provides a cultural programme of excellence, decentralised and accessible, with some of the best music and dance interpreters, on the national and international scene.
Over the course of 30 years, the festival has had as its mission the development of new audiences for music, and for the arts in general, as well as the enhancement of heritage, not only the musical and immaterial, but also the architectural historic heritage, whose fruition and public knowledge has driven.
The connection to heritage is immediately evident in the designation of the festival, which refers to the Cistercian heritage and the stages where it is presented, whose epicenter is the Monastery of Alcobaça and its multiplicity of spaces, some of which are only accessible to the public on this occasion.
In recent years, Cistermúsica has evolved into a Season, maintaining the Festival as the highlight of the programme in the summer, but filling out the year-round offer with artistic proposals. Currently, the Cistermúsica Season includes other events on the calendar, such as Cistermúsica Sacra, which takes place during the Easter period and focuses on choral music, and Cistermúsica Fronteiras, a contemporary music series that takes place in the last quarter of the year.
Essentials
Festival coordinator
José Rafael Rodrigues
Contact
E: prod@cistermusica.com
T: +351 262 597 611
Rua Frei António Brandão, n.38/44,
2460-047 Alcobaça
https://www.cistermusica.com/en
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Videos
Ola Gjeilo - The GroundO programa Sacro e Eterno propuseram uma viagem através da música sacra, desde o período romântico ao contemporâneo, sob o prisma da música...
Felix Mendelssohn - String Quartet No. 6 + Eurico Carrapatoso - Dar templo ao tempoNeste programa o Quarteto Camões, juntamente com o guitarrista Dejan Ivanovich, propuseram quatro obras de forma a que se sentisse o papel do tempo...
Folias de 1.º tom + Sonata sopra lo stile che suona il Prette dalla Chitarra PortogheseConcerto exclusivo pelo Ensemble Atena para crianças da atividade Férias com Arte que permitiu uma manhã diferente e divertida. Este programa...
News
Cistermúsica: a meeting point for music lovers24 May 2024What to expect for the 2024 editionCistermúsica is presenting its 32nd edition, which will take place between 28 June and 3 August 2024. The programme includes more than 40 concerts under the motto...
Book: Festival em Tempo de Pandemia (Festival in Pandemic Times)14 June 2022The book "Festival em Tempo de Pandemia" (Festival in Pandemic Times) is a work of art and of history. It combines the best images by photographer Sara Leonardo with texts by João Neves. Both have...
Cistermusica on the road17 August 2020Despite all the uncertainties and the impact of the coronavirus in cultural life, Cistermúsica 2020 went ahead! Maintaining as principal stage the unique monumental environment of the Alcobaça...