In 1959, a little French-Brazilian film called “Black Orpheus” captured the imagination of the world, won numerous awards (including the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and the Palme d’Or at ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage and Tony Award winner George C. Wolfe are looking to ride the Brazilian wave energized by the World Cup and the upcoming 2016 Summer Olympics by bringing ...

EXCLUSIVE: A new musical stage adaptation of the Oscar-winning 1959 film Black Orpheus is being readied for a Broadway premiere next season, producers said today. The production will feature a book by ...

The internationally acclaimed film is most notable for a soundtrack credited with single-handedly introducing bossa nova to the world. Frenchman Marcel Camus’ 1959 work of audiovisual splendor, “Black ...

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A new musical stage adaptation of Black Orpheus, featuring a book by Pulitzer Prize winner Nilo Cruz, original music by Grammy Award winner and Brazilian icon Sergio Mendes, and direction and ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) —Black Orpheus: Jacob ...

The story of Orpheus and Eurydice has been told and retold in various mediums and manners throughout the ages. Claudio Monteverdi used opera as his means of transmitting the tale, alt-rocker Nick Cave ...

As a teenager growing up in Rio de Janeiro, Léa Garcia pored over books by the French existentialists Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, dreaming of becoming a writer. Her father was a plumber, ...