The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking: Com ingressos esgotados, ópera de Roger Waters "não tem nada a ver com rock"

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Com ingressos esgotados, ópera de Roger Waters "não tem nada a ver com rock"

"Ça Ira - Há Esperança" se inspira na Revolução Francesa e ganha montagem brasileira no Theatro Municipal de São Paulo

Susan Souza , iG São Paulo | 29/04/2013

O diretor cênico André Heller-Lopez, Roger Waters e o maestro Rick Wentworth. Foto: Divulgação

"Não é uma fusão [de gêneros]. É uma orquestra sinfônica, há cantores líricos no palco e não tem nada a ver com rock and roll", definiu Waters. Inspirada no texto do autor francês Etienne Roda-Gil, a ópera aborda embates da liberdade versus a restrição e, na entrevista, o músico não exitou, ainda que aparentando timidez, em ler o trecho inicial da obra. "Me mostraram o libreto ilustrado, é lindo de olhar. Li aquilo e falei: 'É forte!'."

O músico Roger Waters fala sobre a ópera 'Ça Ira – Há Esperança'. Foto: Divulgação

O espetáculo já foi montado no Brasil, em 2008, no Teatro Amazonas, em Manaus. Pela primeira vez em São Paulo, o diretor André Heller-Lopes espera que o público se aproxime desta obra erudita, que tem ingressos entre R$ 40 e R$ 100. "Esta ópera tem uma mensagem forte de liberdade, que transcende a Revolução Francesa", conta. A inspiração para a adaptação brasileira veio do artista Arthur Bispo do Rosário, que criou suas principais obras durante o tempo em que passou internado em um manicômio. "A ideia de lunáticos que se transformam pelo desejo de buscar a liberdade, vivida por Bispo, foi influência", explicou o diretor.

Ensaio da ópera 'Ça Ira – Há Esperança'. Foto: Carol Sachs/Divulgação

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Sob a regência de Rick Wentworth, que esteve à frente de trilhas de filmes como "Alice no País das Maravilhas" e "A Fantástica Fábrica de Chocolates", do diretor Tim Burton, Rick trabalha com Roger Waters em "Ça Va" desde os anos 1990. O maestro afirma que a versão brasileira do espetáculo é "contemporânea e teatral" e que as duas novas passagens criadas para as apresentações no Theatro Municipal são "revelações" até mesmo para ele, que tem "uma fixação pelo material antigo".

Ensaio da ópera 'Ça Ira – Há Esperança'. Foto: Carol Sachs/Divulgação

"Ça Ira - Há Esperança"
Theatro Municipal de São Paulo (pça. Ramos de Azevedo, s/nº, São Paulo)
Dias: 2, 4, 7 e 9 de maio
Horário: 20h
Ingressos: R$ 40, R$ 60 e R$ 100 (esgotados)

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George Roger Waters

George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943) is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. He was a founding member of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd, serving as bassist and co-lead vocalist. Following the departure of bandmate Syd Barrett in 1968, Waters became the band's lyricist, principal songwriter and conceptual leader. The band subsequently achieved worldwide success in the 1970s with the concept albums The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals and The Wall. Although Waters' primary instrument in Pink Floyd was the bass guitar, he also experimented with synthesisers and tape loops and played rhythm guitars in recordings and in concerts. Amid creative differences within the group, Waters left Pink Floyd in 1985 and began a legal battle with the remaining members over their future use of the group's name and material. The dispute was settled out of court in 1987, and nearly eighteen years passed before he performed with Pink Floyd again. It is estimated that as of 2010, the group have sold over 200 million albums worldwide, including 74.5 million units sold in the United States.

Waters' solo career includes three studio albums: The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking (1984), Radio K.A.O.S. (1987) and Amused to Death (1992). In 1986, he contributed songs and a score to the soundtrack of the animated movie When the Wind Blows based on the Raymond Briggs' book of the same name. In 1990, he staged one of the largest and most elaborate rock concerts in history, The Wall – Live in Berlin, with an estimated 200,000 people in attendance. In 1996, he was inducted into the US and the UK Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Pink Floyd. He has toured extensively as a solo act since 1999 and played The Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety for his world tours of 2006–2008. In 2005, he released Ça Ira, an opera in three acts translated from Étienne and Nadine Roda-Gils' libretto based on the early French Revolution. On 2 July 2005, he reunited with Pink Floyd bandmates Nick Mason, Richard Wright and David Gilmour for the Live 8 global awareness event; it was the group's first appearance with Waters in 24 years.

In 2010, he began The Wall Live, a worldwide tour that features a complete performance of The Wall. During this tour, at The O2 Arena in London on 12 May 2011, Gilmour and Mason once again appeared with Waters, Gilmour performing "Comfortably Numb", and Gilmour and Mason joining Waters for "Outside the Wall".

He has been married four times and has three children. In 2004 he became engaged to actress and filmmaker Laurie Durning; the duo married in 2012.