Tag: Chico Buarque

Petition by Intellectuals in Brazil Says Presidential Elections Without Lula Would Be Fraud

“Election without Lula is fraud” is the manifesto being promoted by intellectuals and artists ...

Bertolt Brecht

Brecht’s Legacy Lives on Brazilian Stage, Movies and Beyond

The significance of Bertolt Brecht’s groundbreaking theories from the twenties and thirties on the ...

The Impact of Brecht on Chico Buarque and His Brazilian Street Opera

"I have never acknowledged the difference between ‘serious’ music and ‘light’ music. There is ...

Brazil’s Chico Buarque Brings to Manhattan His Charm and Wit

You realize you are sitting in a dominantly Brazilian audience when “The Satanic Verses” ...

Chico Lives

  For long considered a patrimony of Brazilian music, Francisco Buarque de Hollanda, better ...