Imperatriz Leopoldinense is the champion of the Special Group in Rio

The samba school of the Special Group Imperatriz Leopoldinense, with a total of 269.8 points, is the champion of the 2023 carnival, with the theme of the carnival artist Leandro Vieira gave guarida, which talks about the cangaceiro Lampião and his arrival in heaven. In second place was the association Unidos do Viradouro, from Niterói, in the metropolitan region of Rio, and, in third, the Unidos de Vila Isabel. The Império Serrano school was relegated to the Série Ouro. The plot was inspired by the strings The Arrival of Lampião in Hell and The Great Debate between Lampião and São Pedro, by José Pacheco. The Ramos school won its ninth title today (22). On a social network, Leandro Vieira spoke about how he developed the winning plot: Leandro Martins spoke about how he developed the plot: “I focus on the incredible and delirious “fight” of the cordelistas who, after the death of the cangaceiro Virgulino Ferreira da Silva, the famous Lampião , transformed the post-mortem fate of the mythical and controversial character into a humorous fictional madness. Thus, it is the old, anecdotal and popular cordels on the subject (such as The arrival of Lampião in hell, The great debate that Lampião had with São Pedro or The arrival of Lampião in heaven) that serve as the main motto for the very Brazilian artistic universe of this diving,” he said. Titles Imperatriz Leopoldinense holds nine championship titles in the main group of Rio’s carnival, won in 1980, 1981, 1989, 1994, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2023. maximum in all questions. It paraded for the first time in 1960, with a plot in honor of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. However, it only gained notoriety in 1972, after being part of the soap opera Bandeira 2, on Rede Globo. That year, he presented the plot Martim Cererê, winning 4th place. That year’s samba-enredo was the first to be included in a telenovela soundtrack. In 2012, another school samba – Freedom, freedom, spread your wings over us! – from the 1989 carnival, it would be the first samba-plot used as the opening theme of a telenovela. In this case, in the telenovela Lado a Lado. *Collaborated by Douglas Corrêa

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