The exhibition features video-mapping, virtual reality and a full-scale hologram of the artist who put fado on the map. In 1920 the voice of Portugal was born. Her name: Amália Rodrigues. A new ...
Music has the power to take us to faraway places. Most of those places are only in our heads. But for me, the music of one singer had the power to take me all the way to the capital of Portugal. It ...
Last week, UNESCO added fado to its inventory of the world’s “intangible cultural heritage.’’ To friends of Portugal, this consecration only stated the obvious. Born in the steep streets and ...
The music, traditionally performed in an intimate setting known as a "fado house," is guitar-based, and built around classical guitar and the notoriously difficult 12-string Portuguese guitar.
From the start, it doesn’t feel like fado. Nor does the players’ entrance fit the norm for Lisbon’s hallowed style of melancholy song. It is not the genteel Portuguese guitar but a sharp synthesizer ...
With her mahogany-rich voice, impassioned performances and striking looks, the Portuguese fado singer Mariza has, in a few short years, become a reigning diva on the world music scene. She has blown ...
It’s a pleasure to see new works that centre immigration stories and homecoming stories on Vancouver stages, and playwright Elaine Ávila, who’s of Azorean Portuguese descent, shares her cultural ...
Music has the power to take us to faraway places. Most of those places are only in our heads. But for me, the music of one singer had the power to take me all the way to the capital of Portugal. It ...
In 1920 the voice of Portugal was born. Her name: Amália Rodrigues. A new exhibition focussing on the musician's star-spangled life, titled 'Ah Amália - Living Experience', is opening in the ...
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