Casa da Música is the main concert room in Oporto,
Portugal. It was designed by the dutch architect Rem Koolhaas as part of the
event Oporto European Capital of Culture in 2001. Although, its construction
didn't finish until 2005, becoming an icon of the invicta city. Despite
all, you're wrong if you think the only purpose of the building is
entertainment.
That said, the route of ssturday nights in Oporto has
a new reference point: the Casa da Música Bar. This bar started functioning
since march of 2013, where every saturday from 11pm to 4am, the top of the
building turns into a dancing bar, alienating an informal, elegant and
comfortable athmosphere to a program that favors new trends of electronic
music. With an outside area, view to the gardens of Boavista, the space bets as
much on new DJ's as in safe values, on a national and international level. The
program is at Rui Trintaeum's charge (Loco Mosquito, Trintaeum, Rivoli
Café-Concerto).
Commissioned by Rui Trintaeum, the Bar Casa da Música
is, above all, the ideal space hang out and dance. In Casa da Música,
there's bar every saturday night. Sharing space with the restaurant, it has as
main dish the DJ menu and a special lure: an exterior esplanade with one of the
best panoramic views of the city.
The dancing is towards the multicolor instalation of
Pedro Cabrita Reis, created for two operas that saw the light of day in the
Suggia Room, in 2009. The instalation breaks the vaguely extraterrestrial,
vaguely industrial of Casa da Música - the ceiling is 7m tall,
there are metal pannels hanging over the dance floor. Other luxury: the
exterior esplanade, with the Boavista roundabout as a vanishing point and one
of the best panoramic views in town. For being right next to the the Restaurant
Casa da Música, the bar has a wide offer (15 references, with prices from 2,20€
to 5€), sparklings and champagne by glass. It also stands out for the white drinks
chart.
