The stage of receiving nominations for the direction of the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos (TNSC) is complete and the balance is “very positive”, according to a note from OPART – Organismo de Produção Artística, the entity that manages what is the only theater of the country’s poet, has just arrived in the editing rooms.
There are 22 candidates for the position of Artistic Director of TNSC, which today belongs to the soprano Elisabeth Matos, seven of them Portuguese or residents of Portugal and 15 foreigners, “a very positive result for the image of the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos and proof of the interest aroused by this competition between professionals and personalities from the environment National and international cultural and artistic.
With respect to the regulations, the jury responsible for selecting the future technical director will have 20 days to make the previous selection that will lead to the evaluation of the final list, which will consist of only five candidates, who will be later. interview.
The jury, chosen by the Ministry of Culture on the proposal of the OPART administration, will consist of the president of this organization, Conceição Amaral, member Rui Moraes, the director of the Centro Cultural de Belém and curator Delfim Sardo, of the former director of the Teatro Nacional São João Nuno Carinhas and the musicologist Rui Vieira Neri.
In the next stage, the jury will evaluate the professional and technical path, the experience in managing technical teams, and the suitability of the motivation letter to the challenges posed to the programming of São Carlos in the two years in which it was made. Business will be closed.
TNSC will be closed for half of the new administration’s mandate, between January 2024 and December 2025, due to rehabilitation work on the building funded by the Recovery and Resilience Plan, with reopening scheduled for March or April 2026. Until, candidates were asked to include a “General Proposal for a National Tour and Classification of Production and Activity” artistic and cultural, in favor of partnerships and joint productions during the lockdown period,” according to the terms of the competition issued at the beginning of February.
Elisabet Matos, who in October 2019 succeeded Patrick Dickie in the technical management of the house, finished her term on September 30, 2022, already after being elected as a member of the Assembly of the Republic in the January legislative elections on the PS list in Braga and without any backlogs.
In September, to avoid a void in the artistic direction, the Sopranos saw their term extended by the Minister of Culture, Pedro Adaú y Silva, until June 30, the date on which the new director should take office.
PÚBLICO tried to speak with Elisabete Matos to see if the Assembly of the Republic might be the next stage for this one of Portugal’s most cosmopolitan lyric singers, but the artistic director still could not be heard.
The upcoming Art Direction mandate begins in July and ends on June 30, 2027, with the possibility of renewal. According to Lusa Agency, the total salary of the head coach is 5,000 euros, plus representation expenses of 300 euros and food allowance.
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