“There are a lot of emotions, I’ve never played with a group like that,” the singer and composer told AFP at the Radio France Auditorium in Paris. At 80 years old, Gil handles his guitar calmly in front of 150 musicians from the Radio France Choir and Orchestra.
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“Amor Azul” is an operatic creation with Brazilian musical influences, composed in two acts in collaboration with the Italian maestro Aldo Brizzi, a great friend of Gil.
“The hospitality of Radio France and the possibility of starting here, in Paris, and then interpreting it in Europe and other places gives the project a lot of solidity”, explains the author of hits such as “Toda Menina Baiana”.
The libretto is inspired by poebut Hindus and deities like Krishna. Something that does not surprise Gilberto Gil, a scholar of Indian spirituality, who helped him as a spiritual refuge during his detention in the late 1960s during the period of the military dictatorship.
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Using these sources, Gilberto Gil musically meditates on some of his favorite themes, with an emphasis on love.
“Love is everything, love is more important than death”, declares the artist with a smile.
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Gil, who was Minister of Culture during President-elect Lula's first term, says that at the time the department was focused on modernity. “We are going through a difficult period with the arrival of the extreme right,” he says.
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“For (Jair) Bolsonaro, everything was about business, capitalism, profit. I didn’t have a deeper understanding of the meaning of the word progress, of the redistribution of wealth.” “Lula’s return, with his experience, his character, his justice, is the return of hope”, concluded Gilberto Gil.
(With AFP)
