MARTIN MITTERRUTZNER, TENOR
MARTIN WESELY, GUITAR
FRANZ SCHUBERT
“Die Schöne Müllerin” D 795
JULIANE BANSE, SOPRANO
ARMIDA QUARTETT
MARTIN FUNDA, VIOLIN
JOHANNA STAEMMLER, VIOLIN
TERESA SCHWAMM-BISKAMP, VIOLA
PETER-PHILIPP STAEMMLER, CELLO
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
String Quartet d minor, K 428
OTTORINO RESPIGHI
“Il Tramonto” for soprano and string quartet
FRANZ SCHUBERT
String Quartet a minor, D 804 “Rosamunde”
“Cidade Lúcida”
ADRIAN STÖLZLE, DIRECTION
BENVINDO FONSECA, DANCE
The film Cidade Lúcida, by the German director Adrian Stölzle, begins by presenting Benvindo Fonseca, aged 57, as a “magical” being. And many who have seen him dance say the same. Ballet Gulbenkian’s first dancer, the Mozambican boy displayed body, talent, passion, technique and genius, all mixed up without any restraint, leaving those who saw him in a limbo between the real and the transcendent, dazed in such exuberance.
Amid the applause in Portugal and abroad, the dancer struggled with an injury that left him in permanent pain, making a superhuman effort to live up to expectations. These achievements, weaknesses, joys and disappointments are now told in this biographical film, sometimes in the first person or in the voices of friends and family who have accompanied Benvindo throughout his journey.