Distribution: Bretz Filmes
Production: Goulart Filmes
Executive producer: Yves Goulart
Producers: Yves Goulart, Marcelo Nigri and Nayglon Goulart
Director: Yves Goulart
Musical director: Irene Flesch Baldin
Screenwriter: Yves Goulart
Cinematography: Yves Goulart
Editing: Yves Goulart
Cameras: Yves Goulart and Sidney Schroeder
Drones: Cleber Bonotto and Yves Goulart
Color correction: Viviane Rangel
Design and graphic effects: Erico Dias
Re-recording mixer: Tim Starnes
Interviewees: Isaac Karabtchevsky, Helmuth Rilling, Hera Lind, Sir Neville Marriner, Rolf Beck, Maria Lúcia Godoy, Roberto de Regina, Edino Krieger, Eliane Sampaio, Celso Antunes, Heloísa Nemoto Vergara, Walter Santos Filho, Fernando Portari, Roberto Saccà, Bernhard Gärtner, Marc Marshall, Hernán Iturralde, Marga Schiml, Peter Lika, Andreas Keller, Walter Forchert, Lilian Barretto, Fany Solter, Cicinato Cascais da Silva, Neyde Borges Coelho, Brother Bruno Klein, Darcy Brasiliano dos Santos, Noemi Kellermann, José Araujo Filho, Laura Lindolfo, Galileu Sangaletti, Delfina Baldin Sangaletti, Irene Flesch Baldin, Serena Flesch Baldin and Sofia Flesch Baldin

“Baldin had a rare voice. The quality of his sound was impeccable.”
(Sir Neville Marriner, Conductor)

Aldo Baldin was born in Urussanga, Brazil.  A child prodigy in music, he was awarded a scholarship in Brazil for studies in piano and cello, followed soon thereafter by the crucial first studies in voice with Eliane Sampaio and Heloisa Nemoto Vergara.

It was Karl Richter who was instrumental in securing a German Academic Exchange Service scholarship for Baldin to study with Martin Gründler at the Frankfurt Conservatory of Music, where he received a Performing Arts degree.  He continued to study with Margarethe von Winterfeldt and participated in summer courses with Conchita Badia and Noemi Perugia.

While still at the Frankfurt Con­servatory, Baldin was already active as a concert and oratorio soloist and Lied interpreter and was also in demand as a recording artist for radio and record companies.  His discography covers a wide range of recordings of oratorios, Lieder and operas on well-known labels.

Baldin worked regularly with the world’s noted conductors and orchestras and performed at international music festivals, as well as in nearly all the great concert halls and opera houses of Europe, Japan and America.  His career as an opera singer began at the Pfalztheater in Kaiserslautern and soon led to the National Theater in Mannheim.  In 1980, he debuted at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires and, in 1981, at La Scala in Milan.  He was also hired as a guest performer at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin and at other internationally known opera houses.  He undertook extended concert tours, which brought him to France, Holland, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Israel, Russia, Poland, Czech Republic, Latvia, Iceland, the USA and South America.

The great versatility of his voice enabled Aldo Baldin to apply his interpretative skills to every period of music ranging from the Renaissance to the contemporary.  His areas of specialization in the opera repertoire include Mozart, Donizetti and Rossini; in the oratorio literature all the great works of Bach (in particular the Evangelist roles), as well as all the significant works of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Bruckner, Rossini and Verdi.  Baldin’s song repertoire covers not only German Lieder, but also the Spanish, Italian, and French literature, as well as songs by contemporary Brazilian composers.

Among other institutions, Baldin taught at the music academies of Blumenau, Brazil, in 1975.  From 1978 to 1980, he was a lecturer in vocal music at the Musikhochschule of Heidelberg and, in 1983, he became a professor at the Musikhochschule of Karlsruhe.

Aldo Baldin died in Waldbronn, Germany, at the age of 49.

Awards

• Official Jury Award for Best Feature – 5^th GO FILM Goiânia Film Festival (Goiânia, November 2024);
• Audience Award for Best Feature – 28^th Florianópolis Audiovisual Mercosul – FAM (Florianópolis, September 2024);
• Cinemateca Catarinense/FCC Award in the category of ‘Research and Development of Feature Film’ (Santa Catarina, Brazil, 2011 Edition).

Festivals

• 7^th Trancoso Film Festival (Porto Seguro, December 2024);
• 5^th GO FILM Goiânia Film Festival (Goiânia, November 2024);
• 16^th IN-EDIT BRASIL – International Musical Documentary Festival (Recife, September 2024);
• 28^th Inffinito Brazilian Film Festival (Miami, September, 2024);
• 28^th Florianópolis Audiovisual Mercosul – FAM (Florianópolis, September, 2024);
• 16^th IN-EDIT BRASIL – International Musical Documentary Festival – National Premiere (São Paulo, June 2024);
• 24^th Havana Film Festival New York – World Premiere (New York, April 2024).

Special Screenings

• Internationales Bach Fest Stuttgart 2025 (Stuttgart, March 2025);
• Museum of Image and Sound (Porto Alegre, November 2024);
• Carlos Gomes Theater (Blumenau, November 2024);
• Museum of Image and Sound (Campinas, November 2024);
• Center for Sciences, Letters and Arts – Carlos Gomes Museum (Campinas, November 2024);
• Museum of Image and Sound (Curitiba, October 2024).