When one of Canada's two major theater festivals puts its full resources behind the world premiere of a new musical, it indicates a considerable vote of confidence in the authors. Sportelli has been ...

ON A STREET in Lisbon, graffiti give a red-dressed glimpse of Portugal’s past. The figure of 19th-century Fado singer Maria Severa, painted on a flaking wall in the city’s ancient Mouraria ...

If Maria Severa comes across as an awkward exercise in cultural tourism, well, at least co-creators Jay Turvey and Paul Sportelli are upfront about how it came about. In their playwrights' note, the ...

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The musical genre “Fado” has been described, aptly, as the “Portuguese Blues.” Though largely unknown in North America, it has been popular in its native land for almost 200 years. Like the Blues, ...

Based on the novel of the same name, by Júlio Dantas, this is the first Portuguese all-talking sound film, dramatization of the story of the Fado singer Maria Severa Onofriana, known as A Severa.

You’ll have to forgive me, but all through Maria Severa, the new musical by Jay Turvey and Paul Sportelli I kept thinking of Edith Piaf.

María Severa, una conocida prostituta del Barrio Alto, está considerada la primera gran fadista de Lisboa, popular durante la primera mitad del siglo XIX en los burdeles del puerto. Pero tenemos que ...

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