‘I Dreamt About You´: Brazilian play reveals a promising playwright
Whom have you ever dreamt of being? A movie or TV soap opera star, a handsome or beautiful being, a film director or famous cinema maker or someone living a more adventuresome and glamorous than yourself? This is one of the themes touched on in an excellent duo performance by veteran actress -playwright-director Carioca (Sao […]
“Tropical Trench” Ruy Castro´s latest book and a second visit to Rio´s Book Biennale
Despite the former site of the 2016 Summer Olympic games in Rio being so far from my residence here in Copacabana, this bookworm decided to return to the Rio Biennale on what I imagined would be a quiet Tuesday. At the suggestion of another literature lover, I avoided a taxi and took the Metro from […]
My Favorite Writer: Nigerian-American Adichie visits Brazil
Despite the fact that I grew up reading, admiring and loving Anglo-Saxon or American writers like Sinclair Lewis, Theodore Dreiser, Phillip Roth, Saul Bellow,and Britain’ s Graham Greene, and American journalists Pete Hamill Jimmy Breslin, she, a Nigerian-American is my favorite writer today. She writes just as well (or better) than the above icons and […]
They Can´t Take That Away from Me: An Unforgettable Evening as A GUEST oboist with Mauricio Einhorn!
I am always amazed how music takes us into new worlds! For example, this oboist-composer has resided in this tropical paradise called Rio de Janeiro over fifty years because music brought me to Brazil to play with the Orquestra Sinfonica Brasileira after my studies and work in Germany. More recently, after attending at a local […]
The MERCHANT of Venice: Shakespeare is never outdated! (at Rio de Janeiro´s Teatro Nelson Rodrigues until 15 June)
“Theater is wonderful. I love how it enriches our life,” commented one of our party of theatergoers in our Uber as we departed from the downtown Teatro Nelson Rodrigues theater after opening night at the updated, imaginative version of Shakespeare´s “The Merchant of Venice.” Meanwhile in another Uber a couple who were unpleasantly surprised by […]
Pianist Sonia Rubinsky Continues Tradition of GREAT Pianists in Brazil
Among the biggest secrets to the outside world (—which only seems to know this planet called Brazil as most famous for samba and Carnaval—) is the long tradition of outstanding Brazilian pianists. Guiomar Novaes, Magdalena Tagliaferro, Jacques Klein, Cristina Ortiz, Arnaldo Cohen, Roberto Szidon, Arthur Moreira Lima and of course Nelson Freire, are only some […]
Radio (MEC-FM) Days or Camerata Music Viva on Concert Hall
Does anyone in the younger generation listen to the radio these days? This is my query almost 48 hours after participating in yet another program on Rio de Janeiro´s Radio-MEC Fm ´s “Sala de Concerto” last Friday at exactly 5 pm ending exactly at 6 pm. For those musicians and non-musicians who have never done […]
“Dear Mister Director ,” a monolgue at the Teatro Poeira ,Botafogo,Rio de Janeiro.(Tuesday and Wednesday ,20hs) until 23 April
What should a dramatic work, call it a play or film ,be about: a highly dramatic occurrence or the supposed humdrum of every day life? To American writer John (”Rabbit,Run”) Updike and German filmmaker Wim(”Perfect Days”) Wenders,among others , fiction is about confronting the humdrum reality of every day life. In Updike´s case the themes […]
Aboard the transatlantic ship Pacific Coast with top Brazilian Crooner ´King ‘Roberto Carlos
Rio de Janeiro The same routine often gets tiring (if not boring) and for this reason your correspondent –although always reluctant to leave his comfortable sofa at home here in Copacabana—gladly accepted Thursday the invitation by Brazil´s top crooner, the immortal Brazilian pop music King Roberto Carlos to visit his transatlantic Italian ship, the Costa […]
The Red Rooster Harlem: Charm, Elegance and Great food
Since this observer- ( in my earlier years) gourmet is currently in Rio de Janeiro for the city’ s gala Carnaval, my associate (and brother) has graciousy sent me this glittering restaurant review for my Blog Globetrotter. PS: The Red Rooster has a gospel brunch ( with a live choir!) Sundays at 11:00 am and […]