Cesária Évora Orchestra

Name: Cesária Évora Orchestra
Telephone: 04 72 32 00 00
Price range: Full price: 25 to 42 €.
Start: 2026-06-12
End: 2026-06-12

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Last updated date : 13/03/2026

Fifteen years after the death of the barefoot diva, the Cesária Évora Orchestra brings together the cream of the Cape Verdean music scene to perform a timeless repertoire.

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Cesária Évora Orchestra

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Success came late in Cesária Évora's life – she was 50 when the French public first embraced her in the early 1990s – but it was dazzling. Europe and America succumbed to morna, a melancholic, swaying genre typical of Cape Verde, of which she became the undisputed queen. When she died in 2011, Cesária Évora left behind a wonderful legacy that her musicians have been passionately passing on ever since. The current line-up of the Cesária Évora Orchestra includes Mayra Andrade, Elida Almeida, Ceuzany, Lucibela and Teófilo Chantre, the finest ambassadors of Cape Verdean music today.