Presenting the schedule for the final four months, Cunha emphasised its diversity, spanning theatre, music, and dance.

The season opens this weekend with the Música na Paisagem festival, designed to bring music into the Montesinho Natural Park, blending it with the region’s villages, landscapes, and people. For the first time, performances will take place at the Sanctuary of Nossa Senhora da Hera in Cova de Lua.

Other highlights include the fifth edition of Bragança Classicfest, running from 27 September to 11 October, with eight classical concerts, four of them free. Venues include the Church of São Francisco and the Basilica of Santo Cristo de Outeiro, with remaining performances at the theatre.

From 18 to 22 November, the theatre will also stage Bô Jazz, a tribute to Francisco Vidente de Sousa, a defining cultural figure of 20th-century Bragança. The festival will be directed by his grandson, who will perform using his grandfather’s records on a vintage DJ table.

Local talent features strongly, including the return of the band Odores de Maria after a 20-year hiatus, alongside national tours such as GNR’s 45th anniversary and Pedro Abrunhosa with Comité Caviar. The programme also retains its educational strand, with open rehearsals, masterclasses for music students, and three theatre co-productions, once exploring ageing at home in rural Portugal.

In a break from tradition, the theatre staged 64 shows, attracting 13,100 spectators and achieving an 88% occupancy rate. The municipality allocates an annual €400,000 budget to programming, which Cunha described as "eclectic, high quality, and well received by the public.”