Still On the Road to Freedom

One of the world's most renowned opera singers, Barbara Hendricks returns to Portugal with her latest show Still On the Road to Freedom. Hendricks made her debut in 1974 at the San Francisco Opera and the Glyndebourne Festival, establishing since then a benchmark international career that made her one of the most admired artists on the music scene. Along her journey, she added jazz to her vast classical repertoire, debuting at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1994, at the urging of Claude Nobs. Since then, she has explored the legacy of the great names of 20th-century jazz, from Duke Ellington to Billie Holiday, deepening the genre's roots in the blues. This path finds continuity in Still On the Road to Freedom, a show that crosses songs and soundscapes with a strong expressive sense and its own identity. In the blues, her voice of great timbral richness reveals an engaging dimension. Also recognized for her activism in the defense of human rights, Barbara Hendricks summons in this repertoire the emotional force of music and the legacy of figures such as Martin Luther King, at a time when issues of freedom, justice and solidarity remain central.