Amor Azul
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Director : Sebastiano D’Ayala Valva
Duration : 174 minutes
Year of production : 2023
Broadcasters : France 5 and France Musique
Support : CNC
Co-producers : Radio France and France Musique
AMOR AZUL, when an Italian composer meets one of the greatest names in Brazilian music to tell a love story, which spans centuries and continents.
An Opera by Gilberto Gil and Aldo Brizzi
Love is an intimate experience that needs no sacred texts to be understood by all. Yet, because love is within each of us, it is also present in sacred texts. The lyrics of Amor Azul are drawn from the Song of Songs, The Cloud Messenger by Kalidasa, and especially The Gitagovinda by Jayadeva, which forms the backbone of the narrative structure.
These three texts belong to the realm of the sacred but are also masterpieces of world literature, where eroticism is transformed into poetry through the play of "the fury of loving, passion opposed to reason, the blind force of desire, insatiable like death."
The action is divided between two planes: the "cosmic" space of a mythical, timeless India, where the avatars of Krishna and Radha mainly act, and a second, more physical plane in present-day Brazil, where Krishna and Radha (singers), closer to our modern era, relive the same story in countless other lives (or incarnations): erotic jealousy, the longing of separation, and the joy of reunion.
Gilberto Gil and Aldo Brizzi
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