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The Slave
Lo Schiavo © Priamo Tolu
The Brazilian composer Antônio Carlos Gomes travelled to Italy to master the language and the rules of operatic works. After returning to Brazil, he was hailed as the most famous living national composer. In his country, Gomes felt the urge to commit his work to the anti-slave cause, with slavery still being a legal practice there, at the time. Lo Schiavo (The Slave) therefore was conceived as a politically engaged work. However, the issue was rather slippery and the composer had to change the contemporary time setting with a more distant one which made the opera a triumphant success in Brazil.
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