The Negro river in full Brazilian Amazon, was Saturday night stage for a musical show for two hours but it took a year to be designed and produced, all for environmental protection. The Spanish tenor Placido Domingo was the main artist on stage, an overproduction signed by Roberto Medina, the creator of Rock in Rio music festival.
The stage, sheeted, was mounted in the middle of the river, and the bench for the public as well. Although they were only 200 people who attended the tenor of the concert and its guests logistics so that everything would go well began in the afternoon with the arrival of the public to a hotel, which had then to be transported to the pier and then, a “sea bridge” to the middle of the river. And in the end brought back to the hotel.
But in the end Roberto Medina was a happy man. The site, lined with trees, lit in several colors as was dusk, and the voice of Placido Domingo accompanied by the orchestra of the Amazon made the two-hour show a single moment.
“We will watch an unforgettable show “warned the beginning the creator of Rock in Rio (festival whose last edition was held in Lisbon), adding” more than a concert, the Amazon Live is the beginning of a great movement for the planet “.
Rock in Rio began this year a campaign to plant four million trees in the Amazon (key region for the environmental balance of the planet but it has been very deforested), and already has support for three million, said today Roberto Medina told reporters.
Ivete Sangalo, Brazilian singer who performed at the beginning of the show, and even sang a song with Placido Domingo, stressed that Amazon is in Brazil but also worldwide.
Ivete, who then acted in Manaus for thousands of people, it was just the opening, and the Brazilian tenor Saul Laucas who sang Canto della ground . Then followed by two hours of Placido Domingo and his guests, his son, the soprano Ana Maria Martinez and guitarist Pablo Sainz Villegas.
They were the artists but also the riverbank trees lighted various colors, the stage in plant form a sometimes green, others purple, others red, the spotlight that “painted” white heaven and mistook butterflies. And on stage Sunday sang Verdi when it was night thick with Ana Maria Martinez Bernstein, and Pablo guitar skirt Tico-Tico no Fuba .
“We are here to choose as the trees are important to the world “, he would say after the Spanish tenor, encouraging those present to embrace the cause, to plant not three but six million trees.
Two hours passed and despite the sparse audience the tenor and the guests would go up all the stage to sing Besame Mucho , then only was Ana Maria singing Estrellita . Plácido came even sing almost inevitable Granada and to the very end, all together again, Carnival Morning twice because the first did not hear the voice of the soprano.
After a rainy afternoon in Manaus, a high humidity in the morning was windless and almost cool night of the Rio Negro. Just maybe with a little light and noise the most, for the butterflies.
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