Resvés Ópera #4
Channel: Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical
Date: 2021-06-01

O CORVO BRANCO

The opera Corvo Branco, by Philip Glass and Robert Wilson: a conversation with Luísa Costa Gomes and Nicholas MacNair.

Luísa Costa Gomes is a short story writer, novelist, playwright, screenwriter, chronicler and translator. She wrote several plays, among them “Clamor” (on texts by Father António Vieira); and “O Céu de Sacadura”, which was commissioned by EXPO98 to be part of the 100-day Festival. She published 8 novels, 5 collections of short stories, 2 librettos, one of which is the libretto of the opera “Corvo Branco” by Philip Glass and Robert Wilson.

Nicholas McNair is a professor at the Lisbon Superior School of Music and was Artistic Director of his Opera Studio between 2011 and 2015. He has a Specialist title since 2014, and is currently a PhD student in Musical Arts at Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He acted as musicologist and co-repeater in the three productions of “Corvo Branco”: the premiere, staged in Lisbon at Teatro Camões in 1998, within the scope of EXPO 98; months later the second at the Teatro Real in Madrid; and a reduced edition in 2001 in New York, at the Lincoln Center Festival.

Rita de Cássia Domingues dos Santos, a researcher at the Federal University of Mato Grosso (Brazil), discusses the design and production of the three productions of the opera Corvo Branco with Luísa Costa Gomes and Nicholas McNair.