ATTENTION!
No audience entry into the Auditorium will be allowed after the performance begins.
Entry will only be permitted for spectators wearing appropriate clothing, in the business casual or smart casual standard. The entry of people wearing clothing considered inappropriate, such as crop tops, shorts, miniskirts, and dresses above knee length, as well as the use of flip-flops, is strictly prohibited, except for children up to 10 years old.
Tickets for ''Ópera Domitila'' at Sala Mário Tavares, Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro
⭐ Ópera Domitila brings a secret imperial romance to the opera stage. Letters that survived centuries become music, confession, and farewell.
Highlights
🎼 Experience a one-act chamber opera shaped by secret imperial letters
🎻 Listen to Georgia Szpílman revive the passion and painful farewell of Domitila
🏛 Enter Sala Mário Tavares, in the cultural heart of Theatro Municipal
✨ Follow a historical romance from hidden letters to operatic confession
General Info
📅 Friday, October 30, 2026, at 7:00 PM - Doors open at 6:30 PM
Sunday, November 1, 2026, at 11:00 AM - Doors open at 10:30 AM
⏱ Duration: 1 hour per performance
📍 Location: Sala Mário Tavares, Annex Building of Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro - Avenida Almirante Barroso, 14 - Centro, Rio de Janeiro
♿ Accessibility: this venue is not wheelchair accessible
👤 Age requirement: all ages welcome
❗ Important: no entry will be allowed after the performance begins
📝 Please note: smart casual attire is required; crop tops, shorts, miniskirts, dresses above the knee, and flip-flops are not permitted, except for children up to 10 years old
Description
"DOMITILA
One-act chamber opera by renowned composer João Guilherme Ripper. Soloist Georgia Szpílman.
This opera is based on the passionate letters exchanged between Emperor Dom Pedro I and his great love, Domitila de Castro, the famous Marchioness of Santos. In them, the Emperor signed as the "Demonão," "fogo foguinho," and affectionately called her "Titília" or "meu benzinho."
Their agreement was to incinerate the letters as soon as they were read. The Emperor kept his word, but Domitila, like any woman, kept the 94 letters, which remained lost for centuries until discovered by historian Paulo Rezzutti at the Hispanic Society of America Museum in New York. Today, the letters are housed in the National Archive in Rio de Janeiro and the Mariano Procópio Museum in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais.
Soloist Georgia Szpílman thus revives the entire passion and the sad ending with the Marchioness's forced departure from Rio de Janeiro and the Emperor's marriage to Dona Amélia de Leuchtenberg."
