by Wagner Corrêa de Araújo
“(…) shortly before his sudden death, due to cardiac syncope, Aldo Baldin had recorded a long self-statement, with the idea of turning it into a book.”
“If due to that fatalistic adversity this could not happen, his sound record, accompanied by a vast iconographic material (photos and video images) and enlightening interviews with names fundamental to the tenor’s career, in Brazil and abroad, it would then serve as the basis for a different doc film.”
“In its dimension as an autobiographical report, utilizing the protagonist’s own voice, the filmmaker’s script is built through an engaging documentary format. ‘He started recording that audio as a premonition of our finitude’, said a convinced Yves Goulart at the time, in view of the project that took around a decade.”
“The sequentiality of the plot is suggested with functional aesthetic support, in sensitive imagery and pictorial intermediation, enhanced with the artisanal soundtrack captured by Aldo Baldin’s widow, the musician Irene Flesch Baldin, through anthological excerpts of works performed by the tenor around the world.”
