Diamanda Galás Announces Three Performances in Portugal for February, 2026

February’s dates follow the release, on 1 November 2025 (Día de Los Muertos), of two commanding works: a newly remastered reissue of her 1988 album You Must Be Certain of the Devil, and De-formation: Second Piano Variations, a live recording of her meticulously reworked score for the solo piano skeleton of ‘Das Fieberspital (The Fever Hospital)’, captured during an intimate, candlelit performance at the basement auditorium of the Pinault Gallery in spring 2025.

Since the formation of her own imprint, Intravenal Sound Operations (in 2017), Galás has been at the helm of one of her most productive periods of work. The new label has launched a remastered series of reissues from her vast back catalogue, as well as new releases including De-formations First and Second Variations (2019 and 2025) and Broken Gargoyles (2022). She has hosted three installations of Mutilatus in New York City, Hanover and Braga (2020-2021), has been composing the live show for her Das Fieberspital work, and, most recently, performed at the Pinault Gallery in Paris.

Her live work, installation work and recent releases have all underlined her position as one of the most uncompromising and visionary artists of our time.

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About Diamanda Galás

San Diego-born Galás came up playing both classical and jazz music. She not only accompanied her Mikrasian Greek father’s gospel choir and joined his New Orleans-style band, but also performed as a piano soloist with the San Diego Symphony at the age of 14. She went on to play with various groups that included heavies of the new-jazz thing, such as a circa-’74 combo in Pomona, California, that included cornetist Bobby Bradford, sax man David Murray, trumpet-player Butch Morris, bassist Mark Dresser, and drummer Stanley Crouch. She made her first public performance in 1979, collaborating on an opera with Vinko Globokar and Amnesty International about the arrest, torture, and assasination of a Turkish woman for treason. In 1982 she released her debut album, The Litanies of Satan, which showcased her early forays into unorthodox vocal expression and multiphonics, and which included an 18-minute performance piece titled “Wild Women With Steak Knives.” She has created work dealing with AIDS (including the recently re-mastered The Divine Punishment and Saint of the Pit), genocide and mental disease, as well as compositions for voice and piano set to the works of exiled poets. She also collaborated with Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones on the 1994 album The Sporting Life. Her 2022 album Broken Gargoyles employs a vast array of advanced vocal and instrumental techniques to deftly probe the weaving, warping transformation on the nervous systems of her post-traumatic soldiers and dying diseased, leading Pitchfork to declare her “a world apart from other musicians”.