{"id":2444,"date":"2025-10-23T16:58:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T16:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adegamachado.pt\/?page_id=2444"},"modified":"2026-05-15T15:29:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T15:29:58","slug":"sobre-nos","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.adegamachado.pt\/en\/sobre-nos\/","title":{"rendered":"Sobre n\u00f3s"},"content":{"rendered":"
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About Us<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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A fado house in Bairro Alto, since 1937<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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How it began<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Founded by Armando and Maria de Lurdes Machado in 1937. On the same stage for almost ninety years.<\/p>

Armando was a fado violist. Maria de Lurdes, a fado singer. They opened the house in a small tavern on Rua do Norte. It first went by the name Barrete Verde. The name didn't last long.<\/p>

Adega Machado was the second fado house in Bairro Alto. It was the first to hold a performance every night.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Who sang here<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Am\u00e1lia Rodrigues was family. Godmother to two of the five Machado children, she would come for late suppers after her sets at Caf\u00e9 Luso. She felt at home and often sang for the pleasure of it. One night, carried by the moment, she stepped into the street leading a parade; the diners followed. The Bairro Alto police, mistaking the group for an unauthorised gathering, stopped them in their tracks.<\/p>

Alfredo Marceneiro closed his career on this stage; it was the last place he was ever under contract. Mariza, at seven years old, opened hers here. Carlos do Carmo, Fernando Maur\u00edcio, Beatriz da Concei\u00e7\u00e3o, Maria da F\u00e9, Celeste Rodrigues \u2014 Am\u00e1lia's sister, who kept singing here almost until she was ninety \u2014 and many other names the walls remember.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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How fado happens here<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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This is not a show. It is the house that receives those who come to sing. The line-up is chosen carefully, fado singer by fado singer. The nights are long, but they have their own rhythm: fado happens between courses, and the kitchen pauses when it begins.<\/p>

Those who come to listen, stay silent. That is the rule of the house \u2014 and it is the only one.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The fa\u00e7ade, the walls, the stage<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Three things stand the test of time in this house: the entrance panel, the collection covering the walls, and the stage where fado is sung.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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The fa\u00e7ade<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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The tiled fa\u00e7ade is by Thomaz de Mello \u2014 known as Tom \u2014 a Portuguese-Brazilian artist of the second modernist generation. He devoted the panel to Portuguese folk culture, fado, the Portuguese guitar, and Lisbon itself. It is today a classified municipal heritage site.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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The walls<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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More than a hundred photographs, paintings, and caricatures from the Machado family collection fill the walls of the house. Each piece is a fragment of the history of fado \u2014 and of Lisbon \u2014 in the twentieth century.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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The stage<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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The room was fully renovated in 2012, after three years of work. From the old house, only the fa\u00e7ade and the collection remain. The rest is new. The stage stands where it always stood.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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