The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking: Líder do Pink Floyd desembarca no Brasil para divulgar Ópera

2013/05/06

Líder do Pink Floyd desembarca no Brasil para divulgar Ópera

Músico chegou em São Paulo na noite da última quinta-feira (2) e deverá acompanhar a montagem de 'Ça Ira - A Esperança'.

03/05/13

O líder da banda Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, desembarcou no Brasil na última segunda-feira (29) para acompanhar a montagem de uma ópera de sua autoria, que foi apresentada no Theatro Municial de São Paulo na última quinta-feira (2). A obra, chamada de Ça Ira - A Esperança, teve os ingressos esgotados na estreia.


	Roger Waters chega no Theatro acompanhado de sua mulher, Laurie Durning	Foto: Manuela Scarpa/ Foto Rio News

Depois de ser ovacionado pelo público em 2012, quando veio com a banda para se apresentar com a turnê The Wall, o músico subiu novamente no palco - desta vez doTheatro - ao final do espetáculo, para agradecer à todos os presentes.

Roger chegou ao evento acompanhado de sua mulher, Laurie Durning. Ao sair de Theatro, foi cercado por vários fãs, que queriam chegar perto, tirar uma foto ou pedir um autógrafo, ao ídolo do Rock ‘n’ Roll, que em 1996, foi induzido ao “Hall da Fama do Rock and Roll”, como membro do Pink Floyd, porém não foram atendidos pelo ícone da música progressiva mundial.


	Waters e o elenco de "Ça Ira - A Esperança"	Foto: Manuela Scarpa/ Foto Rio News

Na coletiva de imprensa, realizada na capital paulista na manhã da segunda-feira, Waters foi detalhista e explicou o conceito musical da obra. “Não tem nada de rock and roll. O acompanhamento vai ser feito por uma orquestra sinfônica”, contou. “Eu não gosto muito de música clássica contemporânea – é muito matemática. Eu prefiro a música clássica romântica que era feita no século 19. Eu me inspirei nela para criar as canções.”

Fonte: Quem

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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.