Some video documentation about
"Destino das Oito/Fate at Eight/Schicksal um Acht", a Telebossa-Oper;
Chico Mello, Composition / Artistic director;
Christina Tappe, Scenic Director;
Steffi Weismann, Set Design / Live-Video;
Solists:
Alice: Fernanda Farah (Alto);
Brian: Christian Kesten (Baritone);
Tante Maisie: Katia Guedes (Soprano);
Brian, Official: Sascha Borris (Bass);
Young Australian Woman/Susy: Anna Prohaska (Sopran);
Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin;
Premiere on March 10th 2005 at MaerzMusik -- Festival for actual music
of the Berliner Festspiele - MUSICA BRASILIERA DESCOMPOSTA ⎥ music theatre
Hebbel am Ufer HAU EINS
„My love for music comes from the music and the noises of my big family as well as from records of children stories. Playing the guitar led me to Brazilian Música Popular and the adventure of experimenting to composing, improvising, psychiatry, traveling, sliding and superimposing contexts, feel my sensory perception, my body, and silence.“ (Chico Mello) ———————————————————————————————————————————Born in Curitiba, Brazil. Studied music and medicine in Curitiba. Composition studies in São Paulo with J. Penalva and H.J. Koellreuter and in Berlin with Dieter Schnebel and W. Szalonek. Experimental, popular, and music theater works in Brasil and Germany as composer, instrument performer and singer.
His work has been performed in new music festivals such as Donaueschinger Musiktagen, Stille Music-Boswil, Switzerland, Festival International de Musique Eletroacustique- Bourges, France, Bienal de Música Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro.
Co-operation u.o. with Fernanda Farah, Silvia Ocougne, Daniel Ott, Dieter Schnebel, Arnold Dreyblatt, Amelia Cuni, Carlos Careqa, Martin Supper, Berthold Tuercke, Burkhard Schlotthauer, Wandelweiser Composers Ensemble, Partita Radicale, Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin. Co-curator of the contemporary music secction of the “Oficina de Música de Curitiba”, from the “Escuta” festival, Rio de Janeiro, MärzMusik Berlin (2005).
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Dear Chico, thank you very much for the add! I admire your music, fantastic works! I first gotin touch through Mario da Silva who recorded some of your guitar pieces, very creative work. Hope to be able to perform some of those pieces one day. All the best from Munich
E aí Herrrrrr Mello, Grande prazer entrar em contato novamente... Como sempre sua música surpreende aos ouvidos. Go ahead... Aquele abrax... que só tem no Brasil.
