Operas

A selection of theatrical and musical works for the stage: operas, adaptations and other scenic titles from Aldo Brizzi’s catalogue.

Operas

Central titles in Aldo Brizzi’s theatrical catalogue.

I-Juca Pirama

I-Juca Pirama

  • Year: 2024–25
  • Form: Opera in a prologue and 9 scenes
  • Libretto: Aldo Brizzi e Paulo Coelho
  • Music: Gilberto Gil e Aldo Brizzi
  • Forces: 5 principal voices, chorus and orchestra
  • Duration: 1h 25’
  • World premiere: Belém, Theatro da Paz, 2025
A work that tells the myth and identity of the peoples of the Amazon.
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Amor Azul

Amor Azul

  • Year: 2016–20
  • Form: Opera-song in two acts
  • Libretto: Aldo Brizzi, in collaborazione con André Vallias
  • Music: Gilberto Gil e Aldo Brizzi
  • Forces: 7 principal voices, chorus and orchestra
  • Duration: 2h 35’
  • World premiere: Parigi, Auditorium de Radio France, 2022
An opera conceived as a large lyrical and visionary fresco, telling the love story of Krishna and Radha in a time that is both contemporary and mythical.
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Jelin

Jelin

  • Year: 2021
  • Form: Opera in two acts
  • Libretto: Aldo Brizzi, in collaborazione con Bruno Masi
  • Music: Aldo Brizzi
  • Forces: 12 principal voices, 1 actor, female chamber choir, orchestra
  • Duration: 2h 10’
  • Commission: Città di Alessandria, Piemonte, Italia
  • World premiere: Teatro Regionale Alessandrino, 2021
A comic opera inspired by the events of year zero as narrated in the Gospels: a work combining spiritual emotion and theatrical lightness.
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Ópera dos terreiros

Ópera dos terreiros

  • Year: 2017–18
  • Form: Opera in 3 scenes and an epilogue
  • Libretto: Aldo Brizzi e Jorge Portugal
  • Music: Aldo Brizzi
  • Forces: 6 principal voices, chorus, percussionists afro-brasiliani, electronics
  • World premiere: Salvador, Concha Acústica, 2020
An opera about Afro-descendant identity in colonial Brazil, where supernatural figures coexist with the daily reality of slavery.
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Gabriel et Gabriel

Gabriel et Gabriel

  • Year: 2014
  • Form: Opera for young audiences
  • Story and adaptation: Pauline Alphen
  • Texts: Jaques Haurogné
  • Music: Aldo Brizzi
  • Forces: 4 singers, guitar and piano
  • Duration: 1h
  • Commission: AlmaViva Ensemble
  • World premiere: Théâtre de Rungis – FestiVal de Marne, 2014
A theatrical work for young audiences: the story of two boys who, under a spell, find themselves exchanging lives.
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Mambo Mistico

Mambo Mistico

  • Year: 2005
  • Form: Opera
  • Conception: Alfredo Arias
  • Texts: Gonzalo Demaria e René de Ceccaty
  • Music: Aldo Brizzi
  • Forces: 8 singers, bandoneon, guitar, double bass, 2 percussionists, keyboard, electronics
  • Duration: 2h 20’
  • Commission: Scène Nationale de Chaillot
  • World premiere: Nantes – Espace 44, 2005
A musical comedy in operatic form, where theatricality, irony and musical invention merge through provocation and overwhelming creative madness.
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Further titles for the stage

Adaptations, multimedia performances and other stage works.

Treemonisha

  • Form: Opera in 3 acts
  • Original author: Scott Joplin
  • Version: Orchestration and Portuguese version by Aldo Brizzi
  • Year: 2016
  • Production: Núcleo de Ópera da Bahia
  • Musical direction: Aldo Brizzi
  • Forces: 9 cantanti, chorus e ensemble di 12 musicisti
  • Duration: 1h 35’
  • World premiere: Salvador, MUNCAB, 2016
Orchestration and Portuguese version dell’opera di Scott Joplin, in cui educazione, emancipazione e comunità diventano il cuore del racconto teatrale.
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Alter

  • Year: 2011–12
  • Form: multimedia performance
  • Forces: 1 cantante, 1 actor, 1 performer digitale, 1 operatore electronics (e secondo recitante)
  • Text, video, music: Aldo Brizzi
  • Duration: 1h05’
  • World premiere: Leyme, CCAS, 2012
A journey through personal memories against the backdrop of European migrations to the Americas.
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Canto a tre voci

  • Year: 1983–84
  • Testo: Umberto Saba
  • Forces: 3 speaking voices, dancer, violin, prepared piano e 4 percussionists
  • Duration: 50’
  • World premiere: Roma, Teatro Flaiano, 1985
Saba’s poetry becomes a dramaturgical structure for a work of music theatre.

Serenata

  • Year: 1980
  • Form: open opera
  • Forces: speaking voices, flute, dancers
  • Stage space: grandi luoghi silenziosi
  • Duration: 60’
  • World premiere: Cassine, Chiesa di San Francesco, 1980
An abstract, open work in which space, silence and gesture become protagonists.
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