FULL DOMITILA (Ripper) Sao Paulo 2022 Aline Mosielly, Paulo Lanine, Amanda Godoi

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Domitila  
• Composer: Ripper João Guilherme   
• Libretto: Based on the correspondence between D. Pedro I and his mistress , Domitila de Castro Canto and Melo (Marquesa de Santos)    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: Fabrica de Operas UNESP, Sao Paulo, Brazil  
• Recorded: November 19, 2022
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Aline Mosielly , Paulo Lanine, Amanda Godoi, Anita Prado, Ariel Benardi, Arte Lima, Diogo Feitosa, Emilly Alves, Karina Koren, Laura Pompeo
• Conductor: Bruno Costa   
• Orchestra: PIANO  
• Stage Director: Ica Simeao   
• Stage Designer: Maria Alice Piassi  
• Costume Designer:   
• Lighting Designer: Tom Ribeiro  

Information about the Recording

• Published by: Fabrica de Operas UNESP  
• Date Published: 2025  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 3 Audio:3
• Subtitles: nosubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  The opera Domitila was composed in 2000 by commission from the Banco do Brasil Cultural Center. It is based on letters that Dom Pedro I wrote to Domitila de Castro
  Canto e Melo, the Marquise of Santos, and portrays this conflicted love relationship against the backdrop of the political relations of Imperial Brazil. It is a lyrical and dramatic work, set on the day of Domitila’s departure, following the end of the romance. The plot presents, in poetic form, the stages of this love story, from 1822, when the romance began, until 1829, when Dom Pedro I ordered him to leave Rio de Janeiro, as reasons of state required him to marry again, this time to Princess Dom Amélia, after the death of Leopoldina in 1826. In our adaptation of Domitila for the Fábrica de Óperas, seven singers, who alternately play the role of the Marquise, take the stage expressing the various nuances of Domitila’s feelings, her reactions to Pedro I’s correspondence, her moments of passion and pain. Our Domitilas demonstrate their emotions, interacting with the stage and surprising the audience.
  Domitila de Castro Canto e Melo (1797-1867), also known as the Marquise of Santos, a title given to her by Emperor Dom Pedro I even though she was not a native of that city. She was the Emperor’s lover after her marriage to
  Felício Pinto Coelho de Mendonça, who, due to her bad drinking and gambling habits,
  mistreated her, beat her, and even stabbed her in 1819.
  He was arrested, leaving her to hover between life and death for two months. The
  Marquise de Santos’s unofficial relationship with the Emperor
  lasted from 1822, shortly before the Proclamation of Independence, when
  they met, until 1829, when she was banished because of the Emperor’s
  second marriage. Five children were born from this relationship,
  but two died prematurely.
  Domitila later married Rafael Tobias de Aguiar, to whom
  she was married from 1833 until his death in 1857, making this her
  longest romantic relationship.

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