The performance takes the audience on a psychological journey into the depths of the Brazilian soul. Like Brazil itself, it reflects cultures merging in a quest for different values.

Set against the backdrop of a cold, New York winter and a steamy Brazilian summer, the plot draws on the tradition of operatic emotion, a story of passion, revenge and mystic forces.  An American woman who sets out to write about Brazil’s influential 1920s art movement finds herself entangled in a web of crime and love.

Reaching At-Risk Children in the USA & Brazil

Our aim is to use music, art and technology to change the lives of children in at-risk communities throughout the USA and Brazil. Tamanduá as a social movement will:

• Educate the general public and at-risk youth on the history and ancient traditions of indigenous cultures in South America and the dilution and assimilation of those cultures with European influences.
• Engage the indigenous peoples of the Amazon to exhibit their art and culture through this operatic work and its related promotional events.
• Explore the use of music, art and technology as a means of rehabilitating at-risk youth in realizing their fullest human potential.

Production Overview

Concerts will take place in 2009-10 in such elegant venues as the Grand Ballroom at Manhattan Center Studios.  They will comprise a two-hour performance of poignant arias with full Symphonic Orchestra, Choir and Soloists combined with a multimedia projection of an artist’s visual interpretation of the story.

How You Can Help

Download our brochure, sign up on our guest book, donate to our 501c non-profit organization so that we can reach more children and young adults. And of course, attend one of our upcoming events.