Dive into the depths of humanity with ‘A Laugh to Cry.’

A Laugh to Cry is a scream for freedom against tyranny, against the omnipresence of arrogance and injustice, against oppression, against the destruction of the Art.

The opera explores some of the essential concerns of human beings in the context of a globalized world, in a speculation on the hegemonic power of destruction of memory, of humankind facing the devastation and of the Earth. The opera develops on the border between dream and reality, between the visible and the invisible, between laughter and tears.

A Laugh to Cry with music and multilingual libretto by Miguel Azguime (Portuguese, French, English, and several other languages ​​in the final part) is a metaphysical theatre that puts eternal archetypes to music, staged by Paula Azguime.
The interpretation involves five characters, represented by two sopranos, a bass and two narrators (woman and man); 7 acoustic instruments: flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano and percussion and electronic media in real time.

The staging is based on multiple video projections built in symbiosis between music and text.