Testimonials

The Opinion of Several Personalities About Our Festival

01 Aug
2021

We thank the Cistermúsica Festival for allowing us to listen to music from other times, other places, which brings us closer to other cultural worlds.

Marta Betanzos Roig
Spanish Ambassador to Portugal

22 Jul
2021

Cistermúsica is a festival that should be known by more people, with a quality that is unusual in small towns, held in a marvellous location and from which we always come away more enriched.

José Amaral Lopes
Former Secretary of State for Culture

31 Aug
2020

Congratulations on a successful festival this year, in especially difficult conditions, and I hope we can see each other again in 2021!

Gustavo Sacadura Botte
Spectator

31 Aug
2020

I wish you much success as it is well deserved.

Sandra Almeida
Spectator

30 Aug
2020

Cistermúsica helps overcome fear. It presents the city (hungry for culture) with a programme that makes us breathe the beneficial air of music.

Fernando Ribeiro
Moonspell

20 Aug
2020

The Festival has proved that, especially in uncertain times, it is with music that we can approach the divine and aspire to achieve something more than mere matter (...).

Susana Santos
El Corte Inglés Director of Communication

16 Aug
2020

DGPC could not be more pleased with this 28th edition of the Festival, which continues to be of absolute excellence, on the scale of the monument that hosts it. (...) It was a great joy for us to be able to hold the Festival in 2020.

Ana Pagará
Director of the Monastery of Alcobaça / DGPC

16 Aug
2020

I'm glad the organisation decided to carry out the festival, it would have been a huge loss not to have done it this year.

Américo Rodrigues
Director-General for the Arts

16 Aug
2020

Despite the pandemic situation, the maintenance of the Festival is salutary and worthy of praise. I would like to thank the organisation for the way in which they prepared all the logistics of the Festival and maintained a high quality programme.

Hélder Bruno
Composer and Avaluator from DG Arts

16 Aug
2020

May this energy continue to nourish us all!

Bárbara Barradas
Soprano, Stabat Mater by Pergolesi

16 Aug
2020

It couldn't have been a better return to the stage!

Cátia Moreso
Mezzo-soprano, Stabat Mater by Pergolesi

09 Aug
2020

We thank you once again for the invitation and for all the kindness and professionalism you have shown us. There is no doubt about the reasons why this Festival has been running for two decades.

João Andrade Nunes
Ensemble São Tomás de Aquino

08 Aug
2020

Many festivals have been cancelled. The fact that Cistermúsica went ahead is very special.

Marcel Beekman
Bravery Arias for Tenor

08 Aug
2020

The role of Cistermúsica has been fantastic. Music conquers all.

António Carrilho
La Nave Va (Bravery Arias for Tenor)