25 years since the creation of MCTES and 200 years of Teatro Thalia

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the creation of the Ministry of Science and Technology (MCTES). The official celebrations will take place on June 17th at the Thalia Theater, a monument that is celebrating its 200th anniversary and whose date will also be marked at the event.

The celebrations begin at 3 pm, with the session “Iberian research and innovation initiatives”, which will consist of the presentation of the program to strengthen cooperation between the La Caixa Foundation (FLC) and the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), with the MCTES.

At 5 pm, the conference “Music, Science and Art: on the subject of Vincenzo Galilei – for the 500th anniversary of Galileo Galilei’s father” will begin, which will be given by Professor Manuel Pedro Ferreira, from Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

The program will close with an Opera Gala, curated by Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro, which includes two great names in world opera, Anna Samuil, Russian soprano and Alfredo Daza, Mexican baritone. Both soloists at the Berlin State Opera, the famous Staatsoper Unter den Linden, which has been conducted by maestro Daniel Barenboim since 1992. At this gala they will be accompanied by pianist Mathias Samuil and will perform famous arias by some of the greatest composers of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, such as Mozart, Donizetti, Gounod, Dvorák and Verdi.

The celebrations will be attended by the Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education, Manuel Heitor, and the Minister of Culture, Graça Fonseca.

In the context of current sanitary and public health guidelines, the capacity of Teatro Thalia is limited to approximately 80 people, therefore participation in the event is restricted to prior registration to the following email: mjose@mctes.gov.br

The initiative will be broadcast online via Zoom ( link ) and Videocast ( link ). Program available here .