Shows in Rio de Janeiro

CCBB Rio de Janeiro (Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil) is one of the most visited cultural centers in the world — a beautifully restored 1906 neoclassical building in downtown Rio that presents outstanding cinema, theatre, music, and visual arts programming to over 2 million visitors annually, making it consistently one of the top-10 most-visited museums and cultural centers globally. The CCBB's extraordinary programming breadth, its remarkable architectural beauty, and its extraordinary visitor numbers create a cultural showroom of genuine Brazilian and world cultural significance.

Canecão is one of the most legendary showrooms in Brazilian music history — a Rio de Janeiro concert hall in Botafogo where the greatest names in Brazilian popular music (Roberto Carlos, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Maria Bethânia, and hundreds more) recorded their landmark live albums that defined MPB. Though the original venue has been redeveloped, the Canecão name and its extraordinary musical legacy remain among the most revered in Brazilian entertainment history.

Rio de Janeiro's historic downtown performing arts showrooms represent the extraordinary theatrical heritage of a city that has been Brazil's cultural capital for over 200 years — venues where the choro, samba, and MPB musical traditions that have made Brazil's popular music the most beloved national music on earth were nurtured, performed, and transmitted to new generations. The Centro Cultural Carioca and historic downtown Rio theatres create performing arts showrooms of considerable Brazilian cultural heritage significance.

Teatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro is the most architecturally magnificent performing arts venue in Brazil — a stunning 1909 French neoclassical opera house modeled on the Paris Opéra Garnier, where the Corpo de Baile do Municipal, the Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira, and world-class opera productions have set the standard for classical performing arts in South America for over a century. The theatre's extraordinary architectural grandeur and its remarkable programming history make it one of the most beautiful opera houses in the Americas.