The Portuguese Youth Orchestra celebrates Christmas with the great music of Verdi and Rimsky-Korsakov.

This extraordinary music is celebrated by the incandescent energy of the JOP, the national youth orchestra, ambassador of Portugal’s talent in Europe and the world, made up of young musicians aged between 14 and 28, selected through auditions throughout the country (North, Centre, South, Azores and Madeira) every year, without distinction of academic background or financial capacity, promoting their specialisation, training and launch into the national and European labour market.

The JOP Christmas Meeting culminates in three major concerts in Almada and Oeiras.

19 and 20 December 2025 | 9 p.m.
Main Hall | Joaquim Benite Municipal Theatre, Almada
For more info and tickets click here.

21 December 2025 | 4:00 p.m.
Nova Oeiras Parish Hall, Oeiras

Credits
Jovem Orquestra Portuguesa (JOP)
Conductor: Pedro Carneiro
Assistant Conductors: Telmo Costa and Vasco Ferrão

Programme
Overture to the opera ‘La forza del destino’, Giuseppe Verdi
‘Scheherazade,’ Op. 35, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
1. The Sea and Sinbad’s Ship
2. The Tale of Prince Kalender
3. The Young Prince and the Young Princess
4. Festival in Baghdad – The Sea – Shipwreck on the Rocks Surmounted by a Bronze Horseman