Skip to Content

The Arts Intel Report

Caetano Veloso: Ofertorio

July 22, 2019
Bari, Metropolitan City of Bari, Italy

Onstage, Veloso (who might indeed be “Brazil’s Dylan” if Dylan had the voice of a highly-sexed angel) is always gently radiant. Imagine how he’ll glow when he’s shepping naches, too—flanked by three fetching, talented sons in an all-acoustic offering of his music, old and new. Don’t be surprised, though, if he throws in some songs made famous by a relative not by blood, but by spirit: the late, ineffably great João Gilberto. —E.E.