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Researcher at the Center for Sociology and Musical Aesthetics, CESEM, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, where he is developing projects related to the study and composition of contemporary opera and its new forms of communication. He completed his PhD in Composition as a fellow student of the Foundation for Science and Technology at the Royal College of Music in 2012 and returns to Lisbon in the same year. His music has been programmed by various groups and orchestras, among them, Grupo de Música Contemporânea de Lisboa, London Contemporary Chamber Orchestra, Nederlands Blazers Ensemble, Orquestra Clássica do Sul, RCM Sinfonietta, Orquestra Gulbenkian and Composers Ensemble. Among his most recent works are the chamber opera ¿Hotel Suite¿, with libretto by Rui Zink, premiered in 2011 in London, the soundtrack for the silent film ¿Os Lobos¿, by Rino Lupo (order of the 2nd UK Portuguese Film Festival) premiered in 2011 at the Barbican Center in London, the ¿Fado Olissiponense¿ chamber opera, with libretto by Rui Zink, premiered in 2012 at the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, the street opera ¿Serei eu fugindo?¿, with libretto by Rui Zink, premiered in 2013 as part of the Andar em Festa 2013 initiative, Edgar Allan Poe¿s ¿O Corvo¿ chamber opera, premiered in 2015 and edited on CD in 2016 by Inestética and Álvaro de Campos¿ ¿Tabacaria¿ chamber opera, premiered in 2017. ¿Tabacaria¿ was edited on CD in 2018 by Inestética. Between 2018 and 2019 he premiered seven short operas for television, RTP2 channel. In 2019 he premiered the chamber opera ¿As Flores do Mal¿, produced by Inestética, with libretto by Alexandre Lyra Leite and the community immersive opera ¿É Possível resistir¿, produced by Arepo, with libretto by Rui Zink at Torres Vedras. His site-specif opera O Regresso da Norma, produced by AREPO was premiered in 2021, in Torres Vedras and release on CD in 2022. In 2021 he became the Assistant Coordinator of the Critical Theory and Communication Group. He is teaching the master’s course Musical-Theatre Performance at NOVA University, Lisbon, since 2022.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Luís Pedro Henrique Mendes Soldado

Citation names

  • Soldado, Luís
  • Soldado, Luís Pedro

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
B012-3044-F8C1
ORCID iD
0000-0001-6555-7596

Addresses

  • Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical, Av. de Berna, 26-C, 1069-061, Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Arts - Performing Arts Studies (Musicology, Theater Science, Dramaturgy)
Education
Degree Classification
2017/03/01 - 2023/03/01
Concluded
 CESEM - Research Centre for the Study of the Sociology and Aesthetics of Music (Pós-doutoramento)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2008/09/01 - 2012/12/12
Concluded
 Doctor of Music (Doctor of Philosophy)
Royal College of Music, United Kingdom
2006/10/01 - 2008/07/01
Concluded
 Master of Composition (Master)
Major in Composition
Royal College of Music, United Kingdom
2002/10/01 - 2006/06/30
Concluded
 Composição (Licenciatura)
Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa, Portugal
 16/20
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2017/03/01 - Current Postdoc (Research) Opera Studies Research Cluster, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2017/03/01 - Current Postdoc (Research) Critical Theory and Communication Group/CESEM - Research Centre for the Study of the Sociology and Aesthetics of Music, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2017/03/01 - 2023/03/01 Postdoc (Research) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/02/01 - Current Invited Associate Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2010/09/01 - 2011/08/31 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Royal College of Music, United Kingdom
Royal College of Music, United Kingdom

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/04/23 - Current Artistic Director AREPO - Opera and Contemporary Arts Association, Portugal
AREPO - Opera and Contemporary Arts Association, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021/04/01 - Current Assistant Coordinator of the Critical Theory and Communication Group, CESEM. Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2017/03/01 - 2023/02/28 New Forms of Music-Theatre Communication
SFRH/BPD/114908/2016
Post-doc Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Ongoing
2008/09/01 - 2012/08/31 The manipulation of texture in a new consonant music (PhD Thesis)
SFRH / BD / 44534 / 2008
PhD Student Fellow
Royal College of Music, United Kingdom
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Soldado, Luís. "O Corvo: produção multimédia de uma ópera de câmara". In Log in, live on: música e cibercultura na era da internet das coisas, 349-354. Lisbon, Portugal: Cesem/Húmus, 2018.
    Published

Artistic / Performance

Musical composition
  1. Soldado, Luís. O Valor das Coisas (immersive opera). 2023.
  2. Soldado, Luís. Beatriz (chamber opera). 2022.
  3. Soldado, Luís. Não há machado que corte (chamber opera). 2022.
  4. Caramelos (televison opera). Ópera do Castelo, 2021.
  5. O Regresso da Norma (site-specific chamber opera). AREPO, 2021.
  6. LINHAS (silent film concert). AREPO, 2020.
  7. Ópera 9 (vídeo opera). Lisboa Agora, 2020.
  8. Um segundo mergulho. XXI Cerveira International Arts Biennial for the exposition “De casa para um mundo…”, 2020.
  9. Soldado, Luís. What's the Hurry?. 2019.
  10. Soldado, Luís. O Segredo das Abóboras (fairy tale for children). 2019.
  11. Soldado, Luís. As Flores do Mal (chamber opera). 2019.
  12. Soldado, Luís. É Possível Resisitir (community street opera). 2019.
  13. Soldado, Luís. O Meu Algarve. 2019.
  14. Soldado, Luís. O Sorriso Mágico de Sofia (fairy tale for children). 2018.
  15. Soldado, Luís. NOIR (music-theater). 2018.
  16. Soldado, Luís. Egoencenador (television opera). 2017.
  17. Soldado, Luís. Infidelidade (television opera). 2017.
  18. Soldado, Luís. A Força do Destino (television opera). 2017.
  19. Soldado, Luís. Norma (television opera). 2017.
  20. Soldado, Luís. Esposo Infernal (television opera). 2017.
  21. Soldado, Luís. Tabacaria (chamber opera). 2017.
  22. Soldado, Luís. Ditador (television opera). 2017.
  23. Soldado, Luís. TV Mágica (television opera). 2017.
  24. Soldado, Luís. Eu.Rope. 2017.
  25. Soldado, Luís. O Corvo (chamber opera). 2015.
  26. Soldado, Luís. Lisboa Muda (silent film score). 2014.
  27. Soldado, Luís. Serei eu fugindo? (street opera). 2013.
  28. Soldado, Luís. Fado Olissiponense (chamber opera). 2012.
  29. Soldado, Luís. Os Lobos (silent film score). 2011.
  30. Soldado, Luís. Suite Hotel (chamber opera). 2011.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2022/11/20 AREPO operas Presentation of AREPO works methodologies
Faculdade de Música do Espírito Santo, Brasil (Vitória, Brazil)
2019/06/24 Audio and Visual Technologies in Opera - What about the Music? Opera and the City Technologies of Displacement and Dissemination
Teatro Nacional São Carlos / CESEM - Research Centre for the Study of the Sociology and Aesthetics of Music (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019/06/07 Processes of Creation and Production VII Seminário de Música, Teoria Crítica e Comunicação.
CESEM - Research Centre for the Study of the Sociology and Aesthetics of Music
2018/12/28 Invisible Cities e Twitter Opera, exemplos paradigmáticos na criação e produção operática contemporânea Teatro musical e musicalidade
FCSH/UNL (Lisbon, Portugal)
2018/06/21 "Ópera de câmara Tabacaria- metodologias de composição, produção e encenação" "Portuguese Opera in the XXI Century, VII Seminário de Música, Teoria Crítica e Comunicação"
CESEM - Research Centre for the Study of the Sociology and Aesthetics of Music (Lisbon, Portugal)
2018/05/18 Sobre Ópera Contemporânea - entre a criação e a interpretação Semana da Composição
Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2017/07/09 Today's Music in Silent Film VI Seminário de Música, Teoria Crítica e Comunicação
CESEM - Research Centre for the Study of the Sociology and Aesthetics of Music
2017/03/20 Today's Music in Silent Film Seminários Abertos do Doutoramento em Artes Performativas Universidade de Lisboa
EMSL/UNL (Lisbon, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2019/11/15 - 2019/11/15 "New models of Operatic Production and Introduction to the Chamber Opera "As Flores do Mal"". Opera workshop, run by Luís Soldado, directed at secondary music students. (2019/11/15 - 2019/11/15)
Workshop (Other)
 Academia de Música de Óbidos, Portugal
2018/09/12 - 2019/01/26 "Opera Creation Lab for Composers". During this opera lab, directed by Luís Soldado, composers had the opportunity to closely work with singers, a pianist and an ensemble of four musicians and create a short opera which received a public presentation. (2018/09/12 - 2019/01/26)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Inestética Companhia Teatral, Portugal

Critical Theory and Communication Group/CESEM - Research Centre for the Study of the Sociology and Aesthetics of Music, Portugal
2018/06/21 - 2018/06/21 "Portuguese Opera in the XXI Century" - Seminar with portuguese opera composers presented during the "VII Seminário de Música, Teoria Crítica e Comunicação" (2018/06/21 - 2018/06/21)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Critical Theory and Communication Group/CESEM - Research Centre for the Study of the Sociology and Aesthetics of Music, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2021/11/20 - Current Participation in the round table Teatro e música fora da caixa with Antônio Araújo and João Pedro Cachopo, Academia de Ópera, Fundação Clóvis Salgado, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Round table
 Teatro e música fora da caixa
Fundação Clóvis Salgado, Brazil

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2020/01/23 - Current Member of the Honor Commission of the Leiria application for the Europen Capital of Culture 2027
Advisor / Consultant
 Rede Cultura 2027, Portugal

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2018/03/03 - Current Império dos Sentidos - Antena 2 Tabacaria - Chamber opera
2017/11/07 - Current Fernando Pessoas para todas as pessoas - Rádio Movimento Tabacaria, chamber opera CD release
2013/06/20 - Current Bom dia Portugal Serei eu fugindo - a train opera