Teatro Camões - Lisboa, Portugal
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Teatro Camões is a concert hall in Lisbon, Portugal which opened in 1998 for the International World Exhibition Expo 98.
Waymark Code: WMD86C
Location: Lisboa, Portugal
Date Posted: 12/04/2011
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member Jake39
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O Edificio:
O Teatro Camões é um um espaço cultural de Lisboa, Portugal, localizado no Parque das Nações, junto ao Oceanário.
O Teatro Camões foi construído nos anos de 1997-1998, englobado no projecto Expo 98 .
Integrou a EXPO'98, hoje "Parque das Nações", e confronta-se com dois edifícios de forte volumetria: o Pavilhão do Conhecimento e o Oceanário de Lisboa.
A sua composição figurativa é simples e dá continuidade aos materiais do Espaço Público, o que é visível no arranjo exterior junto ao passeio ribeirinho.
Da autoria do Gabinete de Arquitectura Risco, sob a direcção do Arquitecto Manuel Salgado, este edifício tem uma presença forte e simbólica nesta zona da cidade dedicada ao lazer e à fruição dos espaços livres.
Debruçado sobre o Tejo, o Teatro desfruta de uma vista magnífica ao longo do Passeio do Neptuno e da frescura do Jardim da Água, que lhe fica ao lado.

 

O Individuo:
Luís Vaz de Camões (Lisboa, c. 1524 — Lisboa, 10 de junho de 1580) foi um célebre poeta de Portugal, considerado uma das maiores figuras da literatura em língua portuguesa e um dos grandes poetas do Ocidente.

Pouco se sabe com certeza sobre a sua vida. Aparentemente nasceu em Lisboa, de uma família da pequena nobreza mas existem outras hipóteses como Coimbra, Alenquer ou Constancia. Sobre a sua infância tudo é conjectura mas, ainda jovem, terá recebido uma sólida educação nos moldes clássicos, dominando o latim e conhecendo a literatura e a história antigas e modernas. Pode ter estudado na Universidade de Coimbra, mas a sua passagem pela escola não é documentada. Frequentou a corte de Dom João III, iniciou a sua carreira como poeta lírico e envolveu-se, como narra a tradição, em amores com damas da nobreza e possivelmente plebeias, além de levar uma vida boémia e turbulenta. Diz-se que, por conta de um amor frustrado, se auto exilou em África, alistado como militar, onde perdeu um olho em batalha. Voltando a Portugal, feriu um servo do Paço e foi preso. Perdoado, partiu para o Oriente. Passando lá vários anos, enfrentou uma série de adversidades, foi preso várias vezes, combateu bravamente ao lado das forças portuguesas e escreveu a sua obra mais conhecida, a epopeia nacionalista Os Lusíadas. De volta à pátria, publicou Os Lusíadas e recebeu uma pequena pensão do rei Dom Sebastião pelos serviços prestados à Coroa, mas nos seus anos finais parece ter enfrentado dificuldades para se manter.

Logo após a sua morte a sua obra lírica foi reunida na colectânea Rimas, tendo deixado também três obras de teatro cómico. Enquanto viveu queixou-se várias vezes de alegadas injustiças que sofrera, e da escassa atenção que a sua obra recebia, mas pouco depois de falecer a sua poesia começou a ser reconhecida como valiosa e de alto padrão estético por vários nomes importantes da literatura europeia, ganhando prestígio sempre crescente entre o público e os conhecedores e influenciando gerações de poetas em vários países. Camões foi um renovador da língua portuguesa e fixou-lhe um duradouro cânone; tornou-se um dos mais fortes símbolos de identidade da sua pátria e é uma referência para toda a comunidade lusófona internacional. Hoje a sua fama está solidamente estabelecida e é considerado um dos grandes vultos literários da tradição ocidental ao nivel de Shakespeare, Vondel, Homero, Virgilio ou Dante, sendo traduzido para várias línguas e tornando-se objecto de uma vasta quantidade de estudos críticos.

Os Lusíadas é considerada a epopeia portuguesa por excelência. O próprio título já sugere as suas intenções nacionalistas, sendo derivado da antiga denominação romana de Portugal, Lusitânia. É um dos mais importantes épicos da época moderna devido à sua grandeza e universalidade. A epopeia narra a história de Vasco da Gama e dos heróis portugueses que navegaram em torno do Cabo da Boa Esperança e abriram uma nova rota para a Índia. É uma epopeia humanista, mesmo nas suas contradições, na associação da mitologia pagã à visão cristã, nos sentimentos opostos sobre a guerra e o império, no gosto do repouso e no desejo de aventura, na apreciação do prazer sensual e nas exigências de uma vida ética, na percepção da grandeza e no pressentimento do declínio, no heroísmo pago com o sofrimento e luta. O poema abre com os célebres versos:

As armas e os barões assinalados
Que, da ocidental praia lusitana,
Por mares nunca de antes navegados
Passaram ainda além da Taprobana,
Em perigos e guerras esforçados,
Mais do que prometia a força humana,
E entre gente remota edificaram
Novo reino, que tanto sublimaram.



The Building:
Teatro Camões is a concert hall in Lisbon, Portugal which opened in 1998 for the International World Exhibition Expo 98. It was known as Teatro Camões / Sala Julio Verne (Camoens Theater / Jules Verne Auditorium)

It was designed by acclaimed Portuguese architect Manuel Salgado, who also designed the Centro Cultural de Belem (a multi purpose cultural center in Lisbon) and the Estádio do Dragão (the FCP football stadium in Oporto).

After the Expo98 the building was enlarged and prepared to host the Portuguese Symphony Orchestra. Currently it´s the stage of the Portuguese National Ballet Company and it´s under the Company´s management.
(From Wikipedia)



The Person
Luís Vaz de Camões (Camões, sometimes rendered in English as Camoens) is considered Portugal's and the Portuguese language's greatest poet. His mastery of verse has been compared to that of Shakespeare, Vondel, Homer, Virgil and Dante. He wrote a considerable amount of lyrical poetry and drama but is best remembered for his epic work Os Lusíadas (The Lusiads). His recollection of poetry The Parnasum of Luís de Camões was lost in his lifetime. The influence of his masterpiece "Os Lusíadas" in Portuguese is so profound that it is called the "language of Camões".

Many details concerning the life of Camões remain unknown, but he is thought to have been born around 1524. Luís Vaz de Camões was the only child of Simão Vaz de Camões and wife Ana de Sá de Macedo. His birthplace is unknown. Lisbon, Coimbra or Alenquer are frequently presented as his birthplace, although the latter is based on a disputable interpretation of one of his poems. Constância is also considered a possibility as his place of birth: a statue can be found in the town.

Camões belongs to a family originating from the northern Portuguese region of Chaves near Galicia. At an early age, his father Simão Vaz left his family to discover personal riches in India, only to die in Goa in the following years. His mother later re-married.

Camões lived a semi-privileged life and was educated by Dominicans and Jesuits. For a period, due to his familial relations he attended the University of Coimbra, although records do not show him registered (he participated in courses in the Humanities). His uncle, Bento de Camões, is credited with this education, owing to his position as Prior at the Monastery of Santa Cruz and Chancellor at the University of Coimbra. He frequently had access to exclusive literature, including classical Greek, Roman and Latin works, read Latin, Italian and wrote in Spanish.

Camões, as his love poetry can attest, was a romantic and idealist. It was rumored that he fell in love with Catherine of Ataíde, lady-in-waiting to the Queen, and also the Princess Maria, sister of John III of Portugal. It is also likely that an indiscreet allusion to the king in his play El-Rei Seleuco, as well as these other incidents may have played a part in his exile from Lisbon in 1548. He traveled to the Ribatejo where he stayed in the company of friends who sheltered and fed him. He stayed in the province for about six months.

He enlisted in the overseas militia, and traveled to Ceuta in the fall of 1549. During a battle with the Moors, he lost the sight in his right eye. He eventually returned to Lisbon in 1551, a changed man, living a bohemian lifestyle. In 1552, during the religious festival of Corpus Christi, in the Largo do Rossio, he injured Gonçalo Borges, a member of the Royal Stables. Camões was imprisoned. His mother pleaded for his release, visiting royal ministers and the Borges family for a pardon. Released, Camões was ordered to pay 4,000 réis and serve three-years in the militia in the Orient.

He departed in 1553 for Goa on board the São Bento, commanded by Fernão Alves Cabral. The ship arrived six months later. In Goa, Camões was imprisoned for debt. He found Goa "a stepmother to all honest men" but he studied local customs and mastered the local geography and history. On his first expedition, he joined a battle along the Malabar Coast. The battle was followed by skirmishes along the trading routes between Egypt and India. The fleet eventually returned to Goa by November 1554. During his time ashore, he continued his writing publicly, as well as writing correspondence for the uneducated men of the fleet.

At the end of his obligatory service, he was given the position of chief warrant officer in Macau. He was charged with managing the properties of missing and deceased soldiers in the Orient. During this time he worked on his epic poem Os Lusíadas ("The Lusiads") in a grotto. He was later accused of misappropriations and traveled to Goa to respond to the accusations of the tribunal. During his return journey, near the Mekong River along the Cambodian coast, he was shipwrecked, saving his manuscript but losing his Chinese lover. His shipwreck survival in the Mekong Delta was enhanced by the legendary detail that he succeeded in swimming ashore while holding aloft the manuscript of his still-unfinished epic.

In 1570 Camões finally made it back to Lisbon, where two years later he published Os Lusíadas. In recompense for his poem or perhaps for services in the Far East, he was granted a small royal pension by the young and ill-fated Sebastian of Portugal (ruled 1557–1578).

In 1578 he heard of the appalling defeat of the Battle of Ksar El Kebir, where King Sebastian was killed and the Portuguese army destroyed. The Castilian troops were approaching Lisbon when Camões wrote to the Captain General of Lamego: "All will see that so dear to me was my country that I was content to die not only in it but with it". Camões died in Lisbon in 1580, at the age of 56. The day of his death, 10 June, is Portugal's national day. He is buried near Vasco da Gama in the Jerónimos Monastery in the Belém district of Lisbon.
(From Wikipedia)

Year it was dedicated: 1998

Location of Coordinates: Front Entrance

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