This Sunday morning (24), after the second night of parades, while Jorge Perlingeiro was still collecting the envelopes with the judges’ notes, the leader celebrated with relief the first year of parades under his management, praised the associations and said that the realization of the event was threatened.
One of the best-known voices in Carnival, as he traditionally reads the notes in the Grupo Especial survey, which he will do in 2022 for the 30th consecutive year, Perlingeiro has also been president of the Independent League of Samba Schools in Rio for a year. January (Liesa).
“After two years of absence, everyone wanted to see the show on the avenue. There were four postponements, one discredit. I even told Mayor Eduardo Paes that we would not resist a fifth postponement and would play for 2023, if that were the case. He who waited two years waits three. But, luckily, it all worked out, amidst the uncertainties. It is a very big and powerful event, the schools have done a beautiful job and we have several favourites,” he says.
The leader celebrated the renovation of the samba walkway, with a change of floor, improved water flow in case of rain and new lighting. But he also dealt with plans for the next parades.
Among them is the periodic holding of an off-season carnival in July, with smaller and possibly themed parades at Marquês de Sapucaí. The idea will still be discussed with the leaders of the associations.
“I am very supportive. It would be a parade without competition, a spectacle indeed. To bring the public, attract tourists and involve communities. We need to use Marquês de Sapucaí more and enjoy this vacation period. We can do it like in 2000, when we chose the Discovery of Brazil theme, and each school portrayed a period. We can do this with national heroes, states, cities or tourist attractions”, he ponders.
The expectation is to implement the novelty from 2023. In January 2021, a law that aims to create an event along these lines was sanctioned by Governor Cláudio Castro (PL). At the time, Liesa, then chaired by Jorge Castanheira, claimed to have been taken by surprise by the proposal. Now, Perlingeiro also wants to discuss the issue with the City of Rio de Janeiro, the hotel industry and the bar and restaurant sector.
Still without final numbers, Liesa estimates that Sapucaí has received about 72 thousand people per night of parades this weekend.
For the next few years, Perlingeiro wants to reduce the number of accreditations for the two nights of the parade. This year, there were around 26,000 professionals, a number that includes all types of service providers: street vendors and kiosk employees, general service assistants, attendants, clerks, artists who perform in the boxes and the press.
“Each year, this access has been more flexible. Carnival in Rio is the only event where there is no invitation: you have a ticket or are accredited. The invitation can improve this, create a limitation, whoever is not invited and does not have a credential, will see it from home, on TV. We need to avoid the excess of people on the dancefloor, in the concentration, in the frame, to pollute the show less. Everything can always get better,” he explains.
Ticket sales for the champions’ parade, which will bring together the top six, will resume on Monday (24).
There are still entrances to bleachers and friezes. The investigation will take place on Tuesday (26), at Praça da Apoteose. The league promises to release on Thursday (28) the jury’s justifications for the scores.
Source: CNN Brasil
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