A tatuagem da rosa

The Rose Tattoo
2026

Description

Composer:
João Ricardo

Librettist: Alexandre Lyra Leite & Italo Calvino
Chamber opera
Date: 2026
Language: Portuguese
Duration: 9 minutes 30 seconds
Small-scale

Characters

Baritone

Instruments

Cl | Sax | Vln | Vc
Score (excerpt): Portuguese Opera Portal

About the opera

“[…] the rose is a figure so dense with meanings that it almost no longer has any: mystical rose, rose lived what roses live, the war of the two roses, a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose, the Rosicrucians, thank you for the beautiful roses, fresh and perfumed rose.”¹

Premiere

Date: 2026
Venue: Palácio do Sobralinho, Vila Franca de Xira
Stage Director: Alexandre Lyra Leite
Music Director: Carlos Marecos
Cast: Carlos Baltazar, António Alface, Philippe Trovão, Paula Galiana and Joana Correia

Scores & More Information

Score (excerpt)    Inestética – Associação Cultural de Novas Ideias    Composer’s Website

References

  1. Umberto Eco, O nome da rosa, trad. Fernanda Pinto Rodrigues (Lisboa: Difel, 1984), 11.

Galeria

Tatuagem da rosa fotos © Filipa Alfama

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