02 de dezembro de 2024
From the enthusiasm and applause of the packed house at the “Blue Note” nightspot here in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, MPB (reads “Brazilian Popular Music”) singer, guitarist and composer Zelia Duncan,60, is quite popular…
19 de outubro de 2024
My conclusion about life at this late age is that things go in cycles only with variations or “there is nothing new under the sun.” And that´s what I thought on Thursday evening when I attended opening night at what once…
14 de outubro de 2024
Documentaries participating in the current international film festival display that Rio de Janeiro may not be Vienna— where such geniuses of so-called classical music as Haydn, Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven thrived– but…
27 de abril de 2024
One week before the Material Gal, Madonna and her estimated 1.5 million fans are about to invade the beaches of Copacabana, the theater of Rio de Janeiro´s iconic Hotel Copacabana Palace is hosting a series of young virt…
17 de março de 2024
Today with artificial intelligence taking over many aspects of life, this theatre-lover would like to suggest to the able producers and directors of an outstanding production of Nelson Rodrigues “The Deceased” that they…
01 de março de 2024
As the 96th edition of the Academy Awards ceremony approaches this Sunday, 10 April 2024, I –always a perennial latecomer—saw a film at the only surviving cinema here in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro called Joia (Jewel), wh…
27 de janeiro de 2024
It is three hours since I have returned from viewing a film which has deeply touched me: Bradley Cooper´s “Maestro” about the life of the Mozart of our time, American composer, pianist and Maestro Leonard Bernstein (1918…
20 de dezembro de 2023
O Rio de Janeiro não é a mesma Cidade Maravilhosa do samba, da bossa nova e da “Gal de Ipanema” que conheci quando cheguei a este suposto paraíso tropical nos anos 1970. Foi por isso que fiquei um pouco surpreendido quan…
20 de dezembro de 2023
Rio de Janeiro is not the same ‘Marvelous City’ of samba, Bossa nova and the “Gal from Ipanema “which I knew when I first arrived in this supposedly tropical paradise in the 1970s. I was therefore a bit surprised when I…
08 de novembro de 2023
Besides international films which have won awards at Cannes and other festivals, Rio de Janeiro´s current International Film Festival has some fascinating seminars including one I attended on Tuesday about Dubbing Films…
08 de novembro de 2023
Writing today his usual fascinating column for the Folha of Sao Paulo newspaper, Ruy Castro observes “Cinema is not real life.” He is referring to such films as’ Casablanca’ where Humphrey Bogart tells the police chief h…
14 de outubro de 2023
Invited weeks ago, before last week’ s massacre in Israel ,to view this monologue with scintillating live and traditional Lebanese music, this theater lover could not help asking himself if perhaps he was on Friday, open…
07 de outubro de 2023
‘Deep Fake’ via Artificial Intelligence is here ready to take over not only the media and journalism but TV, cinema and especially politics. This is my conclusion after viewing Thursday afternoon (5 October 2023) at the…
04 de outubro de 2023
Enquanto o mundo do jornalismo e da literatura parece estar abandonando lenta mas seguramente o papel em favor dos formatos de tela on-line, eBook e Kindle, o mundo teatral parece estar caminhando para peças mais longas…
04 de outubro de 2023
As the world of journalism and literature seem to be abandoning slowly but surely paper in favor of online, eBook and Kindle screen formats, the theatrical world seems headed to longer rather than short plays. Tony Kushn…
