Il and 40 year old, Joao Gilberto enregistrait "Chega de Saudade", his first record, which marked the beginning of the "era" bossa nova. To commemorate this event : staged, which traces the restless and creative atmosphere of the time, using music as a medium and History.
The authors are inspired by the lives of two women from an intellectual milieu, rich and informed. Vera, society woman who travels between party and Bohemia and Lena just arrived in Rio to sing. Together they lived in this short time protagonists, in the South Zone of Rio, born Bossa Nova. With the freedom granted by the creation, The show presents the evolution of their two lives parallel to bossa nova and country.
João Gilberto invented a totally different way of playing the guitar by creating his famous "batida" . He shows it to Tom Jobim, and it is the revelation of Bossa Nova.
On the first confidential, as confined in the closed environment of bourgeois apartments and nightclubs, Bossa opens to the world together with Lena.
In the country, looming dictatorship. For these young people it is impossible to speak only of "flowers, peace and love ". Lena decides to expand his horizons and Vera, otherwise, also …
Of : Rui Frati, Isabel Ribeiro and Frédéric Rousseau
Staging : Rui Frati
Musical Direction : Toninho do Carmo
Scenography : Frédéric Rousseau
Directed : Anne de Calderon, Delphine Dey, Rafael, Diego, Breda