The calculation of Carnival scores marks the end of the revelry season. As in sports, this is when the trading market is busy looking for the artists responsible for the party’s aesthetics. After having signed the Paraíso do Tuiuti parade, which ended up in 11th and penultimate place, Paulo Barros exchanges the São Cristóvão association for the fourth placed Vila Isabel, for his third passage through the blue and white.
Edson Pereira, who was in Vila Isabel, where he conducted the plot-homage to Martinho da Vila, has already agreed with Acadêmicos do Salgueiro, which released Alex de Souza after four years. In Ramos, Rosa Magalhães, holder of seven titles, left Imperatriz Leopoldinense, where she won five of the eight conquests of the club, which has not yet announced a replacement.
Champion of the Gold Series with Império Serrano with a tribute to Bahian capoeirista Besouro Mangagá, Leandro Vieira, a Mangueira carnival artist in Grupo Especial, has already announced that he will not command Serrinha school on his return to the Rio samba elite. The school has not yet announced who will take over the post.
Close by, on the other side of Madureira, Portela announced the renewal of the contracts of the couple Renato Lage and Mônica Lage, which took the eagle to fifth position in this year’s Carnival. The association, the biggest winner in the history of the Carioca Carnival, celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2023.
Gabriel Haddad and Leonardo Bora gave Duque de Caxias’ Acadêmicos do Grande Rio the unprecedented title with the plot “Fala, Majeté! Seven keys of Exu”. The duo has already announced that they will remain in the tricolor for 2023.
More changes in the carnival chairs dance are expected after the parade of champions, which involves the top six of the carioca revelry and starts at 9:30 pm this Saturday (30), at Marquês de Sapucaí. Salgueiro, Portela, Vila Isabel, Viradouro, Beija-Flor, and the champion Grande Rio will perform, in order.
Traditionally, the associations intensify the negotiations and the announcements of the plots of the following year after the parade of the champions. In 2023, the Grupo Especial parades are scheduled for February 26 and 27, with the return of performances to the traditional Sunday and Monday of Carnival. The two previous days will be dedicated to the Gold Series.
Source: CNN Brasil
