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While continuing his classical studies, Radicetti, based in Rio de Janeiro, is currently working on his SagradoProfano CD, a cycle of songs reflecting African-Brazilian traditions and religious beliefs. In the lyrics and musical structure of the cycle, with an overlay of electronic sound, Radicetti incorporates the sacred and everyday experience of the African-Brazilian culture. The CD will be released in 2008.

Radicetti's song cycle CD Homens Partidos (Broken Men), released in 2000, focuses on the inability of the common man to integrate pressures of modern life into his split personality.

In 2005 Koala Records released Radicetti’s SuperLisa CD in Japan (www.superlisaonline.com). The SuperLisa project, developed in partnership with Clarisse Grova, mixes the traditional Brazilian song structure into electronic grooves and computer arrangements. It was originally released in Brazil in 2003 and hailed by O Globo music critic Hugo Sukman as the best electronic CD in Brazilian Popular Music.

Radicetti's most recent music for a play is presented in Terminal Station, produced in London in early April 2007. The play, set in the 1920s, focuses on a talented alcoholic writer trapped in a mental hospital following the death of his beloved wife. The play will be produced by the Cia. Ensaio Aberto theatre company in Rio de Janeiro (www.ensaioaberto.com).

In 2006 Radicetti composed music for Olga Benario—Um Breve Futuro (Olga Benario - A Brief Future), also produced by Cia. Ensaio Aberto. The play is based on the biography of Benario, a German Jewish communist active in Brazil during the communist uprising of 1935. Benario, married to the revolutionary leader Luis Carlos Prestes, was deported to Germany by Brazilian President Getulio Vargas and died in 1943 in a concentration camp.

In addition to writing many compositions for live theater, Radicetti continues to provide music for films, most recently the 2006 Anjos do Sol (Angels of the Sun), a story about child prostitution in Brazil (http://www.anjosdosol.com.br/).

Radicetti joined the Royal College of Organists in London in 1999. In 2005, his cantata O Interrogatorio (The Interrogation) for soprano, baritone, choir, and full orchestra was performed in Rio de Janeiro and recorded that year for the Correios CD production series “A Brasilidade na Musica de Concerto’’ by the Cia. Bachiana Brasileira (http://www.bachiana.com.br/). The cantata in seven movements, written for Peter Weiss’s play Die Ermmitlung, is based on the 1964 Frankfurt trial of Nazis at Auschwitz.

Radicetti has been a prize-winning composer of commercial soundtracks at Nova Onda Studios in Rio de Janeiro since 1993.

Sagrado Profano
by Felipe Radicetti

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