June 25, 2016 • Markus Almeida
If at first glance it looks like a Antonio Variations photograph illustrates this page, a second look will reveal that it is rather the actor Sergio Beach, featured and ready to go on stage for the monologue more than an hour will present at the Teatro São Luiz in Lisbon between 24 June and 10 July.
Variations, Antonio has text and director of the staging Vicente Alves do Ó invited to write the play by Sergio Beach. He gives body and voice – though not a musical piece has sung variations of songs by the actor – the natural musician Braga to recreate the moments leading up to a true event – the Amalia Rodrigues concert at the Aula Magna in Lisbon in 1984 in which the first part was provided by Variations. “We wanted to start with a very concrete situation, it was real. From what I saw and studied realized that for him to be on that stage with his great inspiration have been the most important day of your life as a singer and performer,” says Sergio Beach to GPS by phone.
“It’s five hours to Amalia come. He is rehearsing and is very nervous. The voice since it is failing. It was almost a matter of life and death, on top because Amalia had hated the version it People who Washes in Rio , so he wanted to cover this image and do the best I could, “he says.
the monologue of that time passes” by the Medes, the ghosts, the joys and the various things that happened in his life “for following a” quasi regression “, as Sergio calls it, return to the” 12-year-boy who had long wanted to leave Fiscal [homeland Variations near Braga] to go to Lisbon to be a singer. ”
Like him, I wanted to sing early and get out of their land to conquer the world, also Sergio Beach wanted to be an actor since he remembers and left the Furadouro (Aveiro district) “to 16 years to go study for the Port “.
in 2015 had his first monologue in the role of Theo Van Gogh, brother of famous Dutch impressionist. It was almost Variations in film – the film João Maia, who came to be announced seven years ago, did not materialize but returned now to be submitted to the ICA competition
“As this takes time and there. many interests and bureaucracies through, I wanted to bring out here the vision I have of Antonio. I would not be at peace while this was not done, “concludes the actor.
Variations, Antonio
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