In Media Res

Actor, violin, mezzo-soprano, trumpet, Portuguese guitar, piano, double bass

Project commemorating the 500th anniversary of the birth of Luís Vaz de Camões

"Love...

It's wanting to be bound by will;

It's serving the one who wins, the winner;

Loyalty to those who kill us."

Luís Vaz de Camões

The performance "In Media Res", a theatre-musical by composer Pedro Emanuel Pereira, with text and script by Paulo César Gonçalves, aims to evoke the figure of Camões on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of his birth. By tracing a destiny that is not dissociated from his work, and using a musical language that includes singing and dialogue, a timeless narrative is presented, just like the figure portrayed, which goes through places, events and figures, some more obvious than others, in an action that is sewn and unsewn as many times as necessary.

"In Media Res", as the name suggests, starts from a reality that combines erudition and contemporaneity, fact with fiction, or, as Padre António Vieira put it, "not to tell things as they were, but to paint them as they should be or as they ought to be." Camões re-imagined, untied from the canon: freedman, libertine, poet, soldier, beloved, lover, intrepid, insolent, urban, human and humanist. Greater than many lives.