HOW ALL THIS HAPPENED ? An already long story
For you,
It all started about thirty years ago when a group of good friends embarked on the idea of forming a project for classical music. We aimed to offer a good deal of innovation and all seemed natural to us, as we kept cultivating proposals in a warm habitat of generous enthusiasm.
From the same naturalness were born passionate and brave discussions as only true friends can have. Later, some of us decided to begin our own projects. I started an adventure of my own that came to be baptized – TCC. It was the late 1980s, Europe was still a promising reality and Portugal breathed in the new good winds of European Democracy, but not all was rosy!
We began with a small Mozart opera, three singers, an actress, two sets, seven costumes, a chamber orchestra, no more than 6 collaborators, a couple of good friends in Oporto and a few in Lisbon, and all of the best quality. London had become an indispensable ally and despite the strong collection of headaches along the way, it was a clear success.
Over 300 sets later, an endless collection of wardrobes and props, thousands of artists from around the world and dozens of projects (let’s say hundreds!), where we literally did everything, there now remain with us amazing and grateful memories.
To add all our financial struggles, we insisted on continuing, even only because – “he who runs for pleasure never gets tired.”
At this point, how does the world look to us? Does it make sense to carry on?
Technology has changed. The abusive domains of the communication monopolies bleed at every step of the conquest of the world of communication in the digital reality. With all the risks, and they are many, there is now a very interesting open door to anyone who aims to be independent of everything and everyone.
If you find some corner in this Club of the Arts that gives you good company, that, for us, makes for immense satisfaction and pride. The door is always open.
It is for you that we work!
Tito Celestino da Costa