In the year 2001 the project Poetry&Music was continued: from seven poems of the well-known German lyricist Margret Hölle the Brazilian composer Kilza Setti created her cycle of songs Singing Landscapes, dedicated to Renato Mismetti and Maximiliano de Brito. The 100^th birthday of the great Brazilian lyricist Cecília Meireles was the reason that the Rumanian Violeta Dinescu , who has been living for many years in Germany, composed music to a selection of Meireles’ poems from her Crônica Trovada dos Índios. Both cycles of songs are highly complex works, as well for the artistic level of the interpreters as for the audience. Already the beginning of the program fascinated the public completely: during the short breaks between the four opening songs from Heitor Villa-Lobos you could literally hear a pin drop; the tension unloaded itself after the fourth song with whooshing applause.

After four more songs by Waldemar Henrique followed – detached through the concert pause – the two new cycles of songs created by Kilza Setti and Violeta Dinescu; several times they were interrupted by spontaneous applause – a great rarity with first releases of new works! Interpreters, poetess and composers could receive the great applause of the thrilled public in the splendid ambiance of the Markgräflichen Opernhauses Bayreuth.  One highlight of the evening was the contribution of the great Brazilian actress Maria Fernanda, the daughter of  Cecília Meireles; she recited most impressively one of her mother’s poems in its original language and for which Violeta Dinescu had composed the music, whilst the poetess Margrete Hölle spoke the German Echo in a wonderful way.

The concert was ended with the world première of Amazônia III , music and text by Marlos Nobre, which was also dedicated to the interpreters; the composer who was already for the second time the Apollon-Art-Foundation’s guest termed Renato Mismetti and Maximiliano de Brito as Heroes of Brazilian Music because of their immensely persevering dedication for a culturally new discovery of Brazil.

The dramaturgy of this concert is inasmuch daring as it doesn’t exactly introduce the Amazon like a superb scenery as imagined in exotic fantasy – contrary to the possible expectations of the public of slight fare, delicate harmonies and the twittering of birds. Many auditors may have been surprised by such unusual intensity of the interpretation, the tragedy and also the abrupt fierceness, which might have been expected due to the lyrics and sensuality of the theme and context. One has to understand the almost undisguised irony with which the term magic has been employed in the title of the program, in the face of an unequalled and brutal struggle of survival with which this region of the world is actually confronted: blinding acquisitiveness leads to a more and more rapidly advancing accentuation of social imbalance on top of an ever more dangerous elimination of human foundations of life. Such complex ecological, human, social and also esthetical problems cannot find its adequate artistic reflection in simple melodies and the twittering of birds. Against the background of possible expectations of the public of an evening completely untouched by crude reality, the project of Renato Mismetti and Maximiliano de Brito to plead not only for beauty but also for truth must be emphatically accentuated and praised.

At the end of the concert that lasted more than two hours (!) the enchanted public forced the interpreters through applause of almost 15 minutes to an addition.