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'''''A Capital Federal''''' is an [[operetta]] whose text was written by [[Brazil]]ian writer [[Artur 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 [[Brazil]]ian writer [[Artur 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"/> |
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Revision as of 08:21, 11 April 2015
A Capital Federal is an operetta whose text was written by Brazilian writer Artur 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 fiancé, 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
- ^ a b Aguiar, Flávio (1997). Antologia do teatro brasileiro: v. 2. A aventura realista e o teatro musicado. Senac. p. 183.
- ^ Banham, Martin (1995). The Cambridge guide to theatre. Cambridge University Press. p. 126.
- ^ a b González Echevarria, Roberto (1996). The Cambridge history of Latin American literature: Brazilian literature, Volume 2. Cambridge University Press. p. 123.
- ^ Hochman, Stanley (1984). McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of world drama. McGraw Hill. p. 249.