Guilherme Bernstein

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Opera

scores, orchestral parts, full audio etc. available through the composer at gbseixas@me.com

O Caixeiro da Taverna (The Tavernkeeper): one-act comic opera for 5 singers & 8 players (or chamber orchestra) [duration: c. 1h20min]; Full version premiere: Teatro São Pedro, São Paulo, 2006

Homero Velho, Flávia Fernandes,
Celinelena Ietto, Geilson Santos
& Murilo Neves;
regie: André Heller-Lopes,
conducted by the composer
- Teatro São Pedro, São Paulo, 2006

Second production: II SESI Festival of Opera - Vitória ES 2017 / Sala Cecília Meireles Rio de Janeiro RJ 2018

Licio Bruno, Flávia Fernandes,
Adalgisa Rosa, Renato Gonçalvez,
Alessandro Santana & Tadeu Kuzendorff;
regie: Licio Bruno,
conducted by the composer
- Sala Cecília Meireles, Rio de Janeiro, 2018

- for further information on "O Caixeiro da Taverna" -

Selected extracts from the opera:

Cavatina de Manuel Dueto da Viúva e Manuel

Ária de Deolinda Dueto de Manuel e Deolinda

Duetto de Deolinda e Manuel - sample cover

Serafim e o lugar onde não se morre (Serafim and the place where no one dies)

A fable from the Brazilian hinterland [duration: c. 1h30min, in two acts]
Chamber and full orchestra versions

Premiered April 2022 at Palácio de Cultura Sônia Cabral, Vitória, ES
Samuel Barbosa, Adalgisa Rosa, Luana Shaeffer, Max Alves, Arifer Gomes, Tadeu Kunzendorff & Licio Bruno
Ensemble Coletivo das Artes

- for further information on "Serafim e o lugar onde não se morre" -

O Pagador de Promessas: grand opera on Dias Gomes' play
duration: c. 2h20
to be premiered

Máscaras (Masks): lyric scene for 3 singers & chamber ensemble (violin, cello, piano & harp) or small orchestra
duration: c.15min
Premiere: Cia. Ópera do Rio de Janeiro
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, 2000; orchestral version - Ópera na UNIRIO
Univ. Fed. do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2019; contact the composer for the complete scene for 3 singers and chamber ensemble (c.40min)

Selected extracts from the opera:

O Beijo de Arlequim O Sonho de Pierrot O Amor de Colombina

Manifesto Antropófago: scenic work for singers and chamber ensemble (violin, cello, piano & harp)
duration: c. 20 min
premiere: Cia. de Ópera do Rio de Janeiro
Teatro Odylo Costa Filho da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), 1999

Guilherme Bernstein

Opera

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