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Over 4200 people attended Birgitta Festival at Tallinn Pirita Convent

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photo: Siim Vahur, www.tallinn.ee

After a two-year break, last week saw the Birgitta Festival, one of Tallinn’s signature music festivals, organised by the Tallinn Philharmonic. This year's spectacular music event, which took place in the ruins of Pirita Convent from 6 to 14 August, focused on the creation of the Finnish-Estonian musical bridge and attracted 4,244 music lovers to the unique concert venue.

Opera performance in Lisbon for better inclusion through digital literacy

'O Tempo (Somos Nós)' Performance
photo: © Gil de Lemos/SAMP
Four professional Portuguese singers performed the main roles in a new opera based on Homer’s “Odyssey” at a packed concert hall in Portugal’s capital Lisbon in mid-June. Also on the stage that evening were 16 amateur performers from the central Portuguese city of Leiria, where they are members of the city’s “school prison” population. The prison houses offenders in the age range of around 16 to 21 years. What’s more, a second group of Leiria inmates took part in the performance by video link from a stage that was located back in the jail 150 km away.
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