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FULL O SOM DA TERRA Porto Alegre 2026 Susie Georgiadis
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: O Som da Terra
- Composer: various, see below
- Libretto: various
- Venue & Opera Company: Recital Room of Casa da Ospa, Porto Alegre, Brazil
- Recorded: 2026
- Type: Concert Live
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Programa:
Edino Krieger | Abertura Brasileira
Introdução – Andante
Allegro enérgico
Andante con moto
Edino Krieger | Brasiliana
Heitor Villa-Lobos | Quatro Canções da Floresta do Amazonas
Veleiros
Cair da Tarde
Canção do Amor
Melodia Sentimental
Epílogo
Francisco Mignone | Sinfonia Tropical
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The concert is a great celebration of cultural identity and Brazilian landscapes. On the occasion, the Orchestra will feature three special guests: conductor Anderson Alves, soprano Susie Georgiadis and violist João Alfredo Perius Daufenbach.
Composed in 1955 in honor of Luiz Gonzaga, the “Brazilian Opening” by Edino Krieger (1928–2022) is the first song of the program. Inspired by a xote attributed to Gonzaga, the piece “evidences the synthesis between elements of Brazilian popular music and the modern symphonic language”, according to Alves, titular conductor and pedagogical coordinator of the Brazilian Young Symphony Orchestra.
In the sequence, the violist João Alfredo Perius Daufenbach, winner of the Internal Competition for Young Soloist of the Ospa School of Music in 2025, joins the orchestra for “Brasiliana para Viola e Cordas”, also by Krieger. The play was written in 1960, inspired by an aboio (singing sung by the Caatinga cowboys to calm the cattle) heard by the composer at a festival of violeiros.
Even before the break, the soprano Susie Georgiadis takes the stage to play the “Four Songs of the Amazon Forest” by Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887–1959). Part of the suite “Floresta do Amazonas”, the composer’s last great symphony work, originally conceived as a soundtrack for the film “Green Mansions”, the set of songs depicts the Amazonian fauna and flora through the orchestral and vocal language.The orchestra closes the night with Francisco Mignone’s “Symphony Tropical” (1897–1986). Composed in 1958, the work is a landmark of the composer’s nationalist phase and develops into a succession of soundscapes inspired by Brazilian culture. For Alves, the piece reveals “an artistic conception in which sensitive communication and sound beauty prevail over aesthetic dogmas”.
Before the presentation, Ospa bassist Eder Kinappe addresses, in detail, each work of the program in the lecture Concert Notes. The meeting takes place at 7pm, in the Recital Room of Casa da Ospa, and has live broadcast on the Ospa channel on Youtube.