Cláudio Botelho

Cláudio Botelho (born 1964) is a Brazilian actor, singer, composer and translator. Side by side with his fellow Charles Möeller, is esteemed as Brazil's modern "musical theatre wizard".^[1]

He was born in Araguari, Minas Gerais.

Works

Translations to Portuguese (musical theatre/opera)

• The Fantasticks (Schmidt & Jones)
• Candide (Leonard Bernstein)
• Kiss of the Spider Woman (Kander & Ebb)
• Die Fledermaus (Johann Strauss)
• Company (Stephen Sondheim)
• Les Misérables (Boulblil & Schonberg)
• Victor or Victoria (Henry Mancini)
• The World Goes Round (Kander & Ebb)
• Sweet Charity (Cy Coleman & Dorothy Fields)
• My Fair Lady (George Bernard Shaw, Frederick Lowe and Alan Jay Lerner)
• The Sound of Music
• West Side Story
• Miss Saigon

Awards

• Mambembe Award (Lifetime Achievement as composer, 1998)
• Governor of the State of Rio de Janeiro Award (Cole Porter versions in Cole Porter - Ele Nunca Disse que me Amava, 2000)
• Nominated for Prêmio Shell for Company

References

1. ^ Os magos dos musicais by Daniela Barbi in "Época". Retrieved on June 13, 2007.(Portuguese)