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'''''A Capital Federal''''' is an [[operetta]] whose text was written by the [[Brazil]]ian writer [[Artur de Azevedo]] and co-written by José Gabriel de Toledo Piza.<ref name="Antologia"/> It was first published in 1897, the same year of its premiere.<ref name="Antologia">{{Cite book |title=Antologia do teatro brasileiro: v. 2. A aventura realista e o teatro musicado |first=Flávio |last=Aguiar |publisher=Senac |year=1997 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=MxJAoqAjLxkC&pg=PA183 |page=183}}</ref> <!-- WHERE WAS IT PRODUCED? FOR HOW LONG DID IT RUN? WHAT COMPANY PRODUCED IT? --> Besides being Azevedo's most popular play,<ref>{{Cite book |first=Martin |last=Banham |title=The Cambridge guide to theatre |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=8qMTPAPFGXUC&pg=PA126 |page=126 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1995}}</ref> it is perhaps the most popular Brazilian play ever and was also the first to be performed outside Brazil.<ref name="CambridgeBrazil"/>
'''''A Capital Federal''''' is an [[operetta]] whose text was written by the [[Brazil]]ian writer [[Artur de Azevedo]] and co-written by José Gabriel de Toledo Piza.<ref name="Antologia"/> It was first published in 1897, the same year of its premiere.<ref name="Antologia">{{Cite book |title=Antologia do teatro brasileiro: v. 2. A aventura realista e o teatro musicado |first=Flávio |last=Aguiar |publisher=Senac |year=1997 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=MxJAoqAjLxkC&pg=PA183 |page=183}}</ref> <!-- WHERE WAS IT PRODUCED? FOR HOW LONG DID IT RUN? WHAT COMPANY PRODUCED IT? --> Besides being Azevedo's most popular play,<ref>{{Cite book |first=Martin |last=Banham |title=The Cambridge guide to theatre |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=8qMTPAPFGXUC&pg=PA126 |page=126 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1995}}</ref> it is perhaps the most popular Brazilian play ever and was also the first to be performed outside Brazil.<ref name="CambridgeBrazil"/>


In the operetta, a country landowner and his family arrive in [[Rio de Janeiro]] in search of the daughter's fiance Gouveia. They are overwhelmed by the city's chaos, its sexual temptations, and its then-current affectation for French culture, and taken advantage of by city residents such as Lola the Spanish courtesan and Figueiredo the procurer. At the end, the family finds Gouveia and returns to their home in [[Minas Gerais]], and the landowner realizes that Brazil's prosperity comes from the honest labor to be found in the country, rather than from city life and frivolity.<ref>{{Cite book |title=McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of world drama |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=VGNJxj9qnEkC&pg=PA249 |page=249 |first=Stanley |last=Hochman |publisher=McGraw Hill |year=1984}}</ref><ref name="CambridgeBrazil">{{Cite book |title=The Cambridge history of Latin American literature: Brazilian literature, Volume 2 |page=123 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=97NoYRx96ZAC&pg=PA123 |first=Roberto |last=González Echevarria |year=1996 |publisher=Cambridge University Press}}</ref>
In the operetta, a country landowner and his family arrive in [[Rio de Janeiro]] in search of the daughter's fiance Gouveia. They are overwhelmed by the city's chaos, its sexual temptations, and its then-current affectation for French culture, and taken advantage of by city residents such as Lola the Spanish courtesan and Figueiredo the procurer. At the end, the family finds Gouveia and returns to their home in [[Minas Gerais]], and the landowner realizes that Brazil's prosperity comes from the honest labor to be found in the country, rather than from city life and frivolity.<ref name="CambridgeBrazil">{{Cite book |title=The Cambridge history of Latin American literature: Brazilian literature, Volume 2 |page=123 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=97NoYRx96ZAC&pg=PA123 |first=Roberto |last=González Echevarria |year=1996 |publisher=Cambridge University Press}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of world drama |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=VGNJxj9qnEkC&pg=PA249 |page=249 |first=Stanley |last=Hochman |publisher=McGraw Hill |year=1984}}</ref>


In 1923 it was made into a film.{{Citation needed|date=July 2011}}
In 1923 it was made into a film.{{Citation needed|date=July 2011}}
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Revision as of 11:46, 28 May 2013

A Capital Federal is an operetta whose text was written by the Brazilian writer Artur de Azevedo and co-written by José Gabriel de Toledo Piza.[1] It was first published in 1897, the same year of its premiere.[1] Besides being Azevedo's most popular play,[2] it is perhaps the most popular Brazilian play ever and was also the first to be performed outside Brazil.[3]

In the operetta, a country landowner and his family arrive in Rio de Janeiro in search of the daughter's fiance Gouveia. They are overwhelmed by the city's chaos, its sexual temptations, and its then-current affectation for French culture, and taken advantage of by city residents such as Lola the Spanish courtesan and Figueiredo the procurer. At the end, the family finds Gouveia and returns to their home in Minas Gerais, and the landowner realizes that Brazil's prosperity comes from the honest labor to be found in the country, rather than from city life and frivolity.[3][4]

In 1923 it was made into a film.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ a b Aguiar, Flávio (1997). Antologia do teatro brasileiro: v. 2. A aventura realista e o teatro musicado. Senac. p. 183.
  2. ^ Banham, Martin (1995). The Cambridge guide to theatre. Cambridge University Press. p. 126.
  3. ^ a b González Echevarria, Roberto (1996). The Cambridge history of Latin American literature: Brazilian literature, Volume 2. Cambridge University Press. p. 123.
  4. ^ Hochman, Stanley (1984). McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of world drama. McGraw Hill. p. 249.