In the year 2000 the Brazilian composer Marlos Nobre created a cycle of songs after poems of the famous German romantic Heinrich Heine, left the poetry in its original language and dedicated it to the duo Renato Mismetti and Maximiliano de Brito; the young German composer Jens Joneleit who lives in the US put in parallel music to the verses of one of the most important Brazilian lyricists, the Father of the Modernismo, Mário de Andrade. In more than one way this project built bridges: between continents, arts, cultures, different styles, musical languages and even between different generations of contemporary composers. Marlos Nobre and Jens Joneleit came to the première of their works to Bayreuth; they were vehemently celebrated by the audience, next to the two interpreters who commit themselves to the propagation of a barely sensed picture of their Brazilian homeland.

The ambassador of the Republic of Brazil in Germany, S.E. Roberto Abdenur, who assisted a week after the world première in Bayreuth a second performance in the Konzerthaus am Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin, wrote in the greeting words of the concert program 2001 about Renato Mismetti and Maximiliano de Brito:

Their concerts in big musical metropolises like Hamburg, Berlin, Munich, Brussels, Vienna, Rome, Lisbon and also in the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York brought the two artists rapidly an international reputation. Not only the press is full of praise also the public reacts enthusiastically to their sensitive, stirring interpretations. I had the joy of experiencing Renato Mismetti and Maximiliano de Brito in the Konzerthaus in Berlin last year and was deeply impressed, not only by their great technical ability, their capability of presentation and their intensity of expression but also by their dignified, lively charisma with which they appear and represent the culture of our country.