FULL I – Juca Pirama: He Who Must Die (Gilberto Gil) Belem 2025 Jean William, Grace Reis, Irma Ferreira, Milla Franco

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: I - Juca Pirama: He Who Must Die  
• Composer: Gilberto Gil, Aldo Brizzi  
• Libretto: Paulo Coelho based on the poem by Gonçalves Dias    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: Teatro da Paz, Belem, Brazil, Bahia Opera Center  
• Recorded: November 2025
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Jean William, Grace Reis, Irma Ferreira, Milla Franco, Josehr Santos
• Conductor: Aldo Brizzi  
• Orchestra: Theatro da Paz Symphony Orchestra  
• Chorus: Carlos Gomes Choir of Belém  
• Stage Director: Aldo Brizzi  
• Costume Designer: Irma Ferreira  

Information about the Recording

• Published by: France TV  
• Date Published: 2026  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: nosubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  SYNOPSIS

  After having his lands devastated by Portuguese colonists, the young warrior I-Juca Pirama, the last of his tribe, sets out in search of new territories and a meaning for his existence.

  Captured by the Timbira people, he is condemned to sacrifice, but his courage and dignity transform his tormentors.

  Caught between the duty of a warrior and the call of life, I-Juca faces the conflict between honor and survival.

  In the opera, the story unfolds between two eras — the ancient one, as told by Gonçalves Dias, and the modern one, in which new fires and devastation cause contemporary I-Juca to relive the search for meaning and belonging.

  Their journey reflects the fate of a people in exile in their own land and the cry of the wounded forest.

  In a parallel dimension, the Spirit of the Earth sees, foresees, narrates, and embraces all. Between the two times of history, she is the guardian of memory and transformation.

  Jaci, a young, fragile Timbira woman enchanted by I-Juca in ancestral times, is reborn in the modern era as his own descendant, a journalist who interviews the contemporary “I-Juca” in the lands devastated by wildfires.

  But a powerful antidote resists the advance of destruction: the power of dreams and the ancient technique of making them a reality.

  Thus, the myth is reborn in the present, reminding us that the earth, even wounded, continues to dream through its children.

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