As vozes do indianismo em Il Guarany

The romanticism in Brazil must be seen as an inseparable movement from the effort to create a country and its institutions that, in all forms of cultural expression, has transformed the indigenous into a symbol of the nation. From this perspective, this article analyzes the creative reception that Carlos Gomes gave to the novel O Guarani (1952) by José de Alencar, first published in 1857, through the opera Il Guarany (1870). In order to do so, the analysis focuses on the importance of vocal composition for the re-creation of the characters psychological characteristics, which allows us to note the composer’s commitment to avoid as little as possible the traits defined by the novelist and therefore guarantee the preservation of connections between Literature and opera, while respecting the peculiarities of the respective languages.