This year’s artistic season at Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro (TMRJ) will begin on April 16, at 4 pm, with a concert dedicated to Mozart. The Symphony Orchestra and the Municipal Theater Choir will be led by conductor Felipe Prazeres to perform the Symphony 25 in G Minor and the Mass in C Majorknown as Coronation Mass. 
“It’s going to be a very beautiful afternoon here at the theater,” he told Brazil Agency the artistic director of the Municipal, Eric Herrero. All events of this year’s season will be in-person, with free classification. Tickets are priced between R$15 and R$80.
Brazilian music, with a program dedicated to indigenism in opera, will be the central focus of the audition scheduled for April 28, within the Voices series. The Municipal Theater Symphony Orchestra (OSTM), conducted by conductor Carlos Moreno, will present a concert with excerpts from The Guaraniby Carlos Gomes, and the opera in one act Moemaby Delgado de Carvalho.
“We have a lot of Brazilian musicians and composers this season and it will be a great joy to present Moema, by Delgado de Carvalho, a very beautiful opera, with soloists and orchestra”, commented the artistic director. “After two years without a full season, as a result of the pandemic, we will present a diversified schedule, seeking to meet the wishes of the home audience as much as possible”.
Swans’s Lake
In May, the TMRJ Ballet returns to the stage with the already established The Swan Lake, by Tchaikovsky, with reassembly and adaptation by Jorge Texera and general direction by Hélio Bejani. Sessions will be on the 14th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 25th, 26th and 27th at 7pm. On the 15th and 22nd, the presentations will be held at 16:00h and, on the 18th, at 14:00h, for schools. On May 13, there will be a dress rehearsal open to the public.
In June, with performances on the 10th and 11th, at 7pm, the public will have another opera in the form of a concert at Voices series. It will be Carmen de Bizet, with the Municipal Orchestra and Choir conducted by Javier Logioia. “According to Guinness Book, is the most performed opera in the whole world, in all of history”, stressed Eric Herrero. Then the Maria Olenewa Dance School will present the re-assembly of the ballet the corsair.
The artistic director said that on June 8 there will be a presentation for students. “There are many actions in Projeto Escola this year, because we are very concerned with the formation of the public. And the Educativo of the house works in an exemplary way, both for the ballets and for the operas that we will have throughout the year, with handouts, with visits to the school. Students will arrive here at the theater knowing what they are going to watch. So, we want to plant a great and very good seed in the hearts of our children and adolescents”.
celebrations
The president of the Municipal Theater Foundation, Clara Paulino, highlighted that the concert hall is ready to receive the public. “This year’s schedule was thought out very carefully, knowing the population’s expectation to return to TMRJ in 2022. During the second semester, in addition to an intense celebration of our anniversary, on July 14th, we will have even more news, with productions unpublished works and assemblies of complete operas”, he informed.
Eric Herrero said that the schedule for the second semester is already closed and the attractions will be announced gradually, “to keep everyone’s curiosity”. The bicentennial of the Independence of Brazil will also be highlighted.
The annual opera season schedule includes Don Giovanniby Mozart (staged); The Barber of Sevilleby Rossini (staged); Carmenby Bizet (in concert); Moemaby Delgado de Carvalho (in concert); Jupyraby Francisco Braga (in concert); Artemisby Alberto Nepomuceno (in concert).
The ballet season will feature The Swan Lakemusic by Tchaikovsky and choreography by Marius Petipa & Lev Ivanov; Macunaima (world premiere), with music by Ronaldo Miranda and choreography by Carlos Laert; Don Quixote, music by Ludwig Minkus and choreography by Marius Petipa.
The concert season, on the other hand, will provide spectators with the opening concertbringing together works by Mozart; French Music Nightwith works by Saint Saëns, Massenet, Charpentier and Gounod; Empress’s Concertwith pieces by Neukomm, Kozeluch and Mozart; Petite Messe Solennelleby Gioacchino Rossini; Bicentennial Concert; Open Doors Municipality – Orchestral Guideby Benjamin Britten; Lyrical Gala – Renata Tebaldi and the Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro (TMRJ/OSB Partnership); and Halloween concertwith pieces by Mendelssohn, Saint-Saëns and Mussorgssky.
