FULL Ópera Café (Felipe Senna) São Paulo 2022

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Ópera Café   
• Composer: Senna Felipe   
• Libretto: Mário de Andrade adaptado por Sérgio de Carvalho    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: Theatro Municipal de São Paulo, Brazil  
• Recorded: May 8, 2022
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Fernando de Castro, Gilberto Chaves, Gustavo Lassen, Leonardo Pace, Max Costa, Mikael Coutinho, Nathália Serrano, Ramon Mundin, Juçara Marçal, Negro Leo, Carlos Francisco
• Conductor: Luís Gustavo Petri  
• Orchestra: Orquestra Sinfônica Municipal  
• Chorus: Coral Paulistano  
• Chorus Master: Maíra Ferreira  
• Ballet: Balé da Cidade de São Paulo  
• Choreographer: Sayonara Pereira  
• Stage Director: Sérgio de Carvalho  
• Stage Designer: Cássio Brasil, Marcius Galan  
• Costume Designer: Fábio Namatame  
• Lighting Designer: Melissa Guimarães  

Information about the Recording

• Published by: Theatro Municipal de São Paulo  
• Date Published: 2023  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: yessubs, othersubs  
• Video Recording from: YouTube     FULL VIDEO
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

Based on Mário de Andrade’s libretto and his theoretical provocation for a choral opera, in which society’s groups were portrayed as a collectivity and not as individuals, we invited composer Felipe Senna for a brand new creation. The libretto, which revolves around the 1929 crisis that paralyzed the ports, expelled peasants from farms and sparked a popular revolution, will be partly updated. It is part of the centenary celebrations of the Week of Modern Art. This will be, after the experience of Hans-Joachim Koellreutter in the 1990s, a contemporary and fresh approach to this very instigating text by Mário de Andrade.