93rd Anniversary Rivoli
Carlos Azeredo Mesquita
The Complete National Anthems of the World
January
2025
Sat
25
Sun
26
Sinopse
Over the course of 12 hours—split into 2 days—almost 300 a cappella recordings of national anthems will be heard while 4 musicians from a philharmonic band play and march non-stop. The hymns are subtitled in real time, and the piece is accompanied by a 15 metre long libretto that provides them with context. The audience can take part in a free food raffle for every 20 minutes they watch. The show has a certain hypnotic quality and resorts to history, musicology and sociology to explore the way in which the existence of other nationalities and identities, as well as feelings of unity and belonging, are naturalised, trivialised and abused. — Carlos Azeredo Mesquita
otherness
identity
belongingness
nationalism
© Carlos Mesquita
Info sobre horário e bilhetes
Sat
25.01
15:00
Sun
26.01
15:00
RivoliRehearsal Room
Aditional info
- Price
Free upon collection of a ticket, on the day of the session, from 10:00am, at the Rivoli ticket office and at BOL
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Duration
6h
- Age rating
6+
- Additional information
With subtitles in Portuguese and English
Acessibilidades do espetáculo
Accessible to wheelchair users
Subtitling
No chair seating
Author's bio text
Carlos Azeredo Mesquita works with performance, photography and installation, and explores issues of inclusion and exclusion in the context of social and political systems. He uses decolonial thinking and the tools of sociology, anthropology and history to address processes of meaning-making with the aim of promoting critical awareness. His work has been shown in events and institutions such as the Berlin Biennale, BoCA, Serralves, Teatro Municipal do Porto, MAAT or the Lisbon Architecture Triennale.
Ficha Técnica
- Artistic direction, research and libretto
Carlos Azeredo Mesquita
Direction, musical composition and dramaturgy support
Luís Pestana
Musical and choreographic co-creation, and performance
Diogo Andrade (trombone), Inês Luzio (euphonium), Nelson Ferreira (trumpet), Tiago Noites (trombone)
Counselling and dramaturgy support
Yasmina Reggad
Dramaturgy support and outside look
Catarina Miranda
Libretto support
Isabel Duarte
Libretto graphic design
Macedo Cannatà
Libretto proofreading
Vanessa Gomes da Costa
Costumes design
Nuno Maio
Costumes execution
Florinda Dias
Sound design and operation
Ricardo Cabral
Subtitling
Marcelo Reis
- Executive producer
Mariana Lima Costa/Calote Esférica
Produced by
Calote Esférica
Co-produced by
Sismógrafo
Financial support
Directorate-General for the Arts/Portuguese Republic
Artistic residency support
CAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva, Teatro Universitário do Porto
Acknowledgements
Miguel Ramos/Confederação, Cristina Planas Leitão/Bactéria, Circolando
To the various interviewees
To the Sismógrafo team
Isabel Duarte, Maria João Macedo, Mariana Duarte, Catarina Miranda, Gustavo Briz, Joana Pestana, Vanessa Gomes da Costa, Lendl Barcelos, João Oliveira, Gustavo Costa, Andrés Sarabia, Ashot Sarkissjan, Uriel Orlow, Mikhail Karikis, André Lamelas, Paul Oomen, Rodrigo Camacho, Sara Rodrigues, Luís Fernandes, Raquel Castro, Gábor Halmai, Henry Andersen, Michael Pereira, Benjamin Bollen, Inês Luzio, Rui Bandeira, André Rocha, Ricardo Antão
