Surreal collage featuring a woman with a body made of colorful beads, flowers, and leaves standing on a rocky hill. She is surrounded by butterflies, a sun with a face, a crescent moon with a person sitting on it, and a mountainous landscape in the background.

“The future will be epicene!”

— Marcelo Kuna via Dual

Tarot card from Nosotras Tarot by Elisa Riemer

A person with wet, curly hair wearing a sheer green garment with floral embroidery, red gloves, and standing against a nature-themed backdrop.

“In this portrait of Brazilian performance artist Marcelo, defiance takes shape not through confrontation, but through grace, beauty, and an unwavering presence. Enveloped in translucent green fabric and set against a lush, dreamlike backdrop, Marcelo stands with a quiet power that is both delicate and unbreakable. The bright red gloves become a symbol of resistance — they affirm individuality and demand space in a world that often requires conformity.

(…) Dale Grant sees this portrait as an extension of his flower portraits. Fragile yet resilient, they bloom despite all the forces that could destroy or wither them. In the same way, queer and transgender people continue to flourish in a world that often refuses to support them, embodying a defiant grace that transforms vulnerability into strength.”

— Dale Grant and nüüd.berlin gallery, December 2025

Photograph of Marcelo Kuna in costume, wearing a large red flower in his hair, performing on stage with blue lighting.

“Marcelo Kuna is particularly happy that the actress and singer Cida Moreira is coming to Berlin with them: In Brazil, she is considered one of the most important interpreters of Brecht/Weill songs.”

— Siegessäule Magazine, September 2018

“Bernstein became known especially for the power that his work had as political satire, which led him to be persecuted during the ‘Red Scare’ of McCarthyism. So, he and his work were inserted in this historical context.”

— Programa Agenda, REDE Minas

August 14th, 2018

Interview on “Cartas para Bernstein” (“Letters to Bernstein”), a concert which took place at the Memorial Minas Gerais Vale on August 16th, 2018.

Bernstein at 100 - The Centennial Celebration

Photograph of three actors, Vandsom, Yangmei, and Marcelo, during rehearsal of a Mozart opera as a child in a theater with a white interior, railing, and black frames in the background.

“By translating librettos to Brazilian Portuguese, for example, the spectator can pay closer attention to what is on stage, without worrying about reading subtitles. Idealized by the actress, singer and music educator Ana Taglianetti, the project ‘Ópera Para Todos’ has privileged the operettas, also called ‘shorter operas’, in one single act."

— Jornal Pampulha, Belo Horizonte-MG, Brazil.

July 8-14th, 2016

“More than performing a concert, the cast broke paradigms.”

— Cancioneiro Queer, TV UFSJ

July 31st, 2017

Group of performers on stage, some singing into microphones, one with a drum in the background, during a musical or theater performance.

“My [Brazilian Portuguese] version of the song ‘Republicans’ by William Finn is one of the highlights of the show, when the audience sings along, participates."

— Jornal O Tempo, Belo Horizonte-MG, Brazil.

November 1st, 2016

A newspaper article with a split image of two faces, one with makeup and the other without, related to a concert about queer themes.

“Traveling from 1760 to 2014, the repertoire covers, for example, songs by the Russian-born composer Mischa Spoliansky, who wrote the first songs considered as LGBT anthems. The surrealist opera with feminist overtones Les Mamelles de Tirésias, from French composer Francis Poulenc, is also part of the songs.”

— Jornal O Tempo, Belo Horizonte-MG, Brazil.

August 25th, 2016