Caetano Veloso – Singing along

What´s wrong with me? or you people?

I was with this question during the Caetano Veloso concert in Wiener Staatsoper (Vienna Opera House), last Saturday.

The house was full, many Brazilians expats, Austrian fans and tourists who happened to be here and like Caetano Veloso music.

I was asking myself before `why Opera House`? , the traditional Jazz Festival in Wien (Vienna) made some mistakes -Sinead O´Connor – among jazz artists(?) for instance was just one of that mistakes.

I went to the concert not because he is from Brazil but for my own musical pleasure, I admire intensely Caetano Veloso music .

As soon he appeared at the stage the crowd went wild and I was for sure very happy, nice enough I can sing together… oops -

I don´t know if it was the wrong crowd or  the space (but even in jazz concerts the audience can for sure demonstrate their enthusiasm , different from classical or opera concerts).

I would like to think I was the only one who had to shut up , – what´s wrong with You ?-(I am very polite but I wanted to make this question to the people who were staring at me when I was “singing” along) …So, I had to watch the show with my mouth closed and just imagining what was Caetano Veloso thinking about the icy atmosphere .

Many people were taking pics and filming (this was a surprise), strictly Verboten , ok I was also doing this and didn´t care about the Opera House policy or the embarrassed situation (if I got caught) .

Oh, what a amazing voice, without band! Just his guitar and his voice.  “I love you Caetano” ! Yes, I was brave enough to say this to him in a very loud acoustic noise, it was embarrassing seeing everybody looking at me.

The guy in  the front row looked at me and I said,“just to break the ice“!!!

The couple who was sitting close were delighted – Bitch! (I was thinking about the girl, she was for sure from Brazil and just started to show some enthusiasm after my screaming ).

It is really strange to act different from what or who´d  you really are in a cultural event just because you feel ashamed to show your identity – I don´t see a relation in this case with the space – it is a Opera House but the concert was not!

Ok, I did not go to the Sinead concert, but would like to go to see Interpol or Muse there- and I would not shut up!

Suddenly, we heard a bang. It sounded like a thunder storm.

The musician didn´t stop. Weird noise.

The end of the show was the best part. Some people didn´t realize he would come for another one and just left. With some space between my chair and the front of the stage I went to sit in the stairs that leads to the stage.

What?

The girl followed me  (that bitch one) , and soon a big crowd went there also, singing very loud!.

Caetano smiled and went to shake our hands, gentle!

Today, I was reading Die Presse and the journalist who wrote  Weltoffenheit und wärme in Brasilien about the show was very accurate . About the noise, he explained he saw a fight between two guys , all because one of the guys was taking too many pictures . The other guy said he  was annoyed by the noise and asked for silence and then pushed the photo man who let the camera fell down. That´s was the noise. what a shame!

Nevertheless to say, Caetano had to came back to the stage 4 times and it was not enough, hard to let it go !

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