Sleeping Beauty / Brazilian Portuguese cast

A Bela Adormecida (1960)

Sleeping Beauty

Maria Alice Barreto

(November 23, 1930 - September 28, 2010)

Maria Norma

(Unknown dates)

Heloísa Helena

(October 28, 1917 - June 19, 1999)

Cast :

Portuguese name

Original name

Voices

Princesa Aurora
Rosa

Aurora
Briar Rose

Maria Alice Barreto (speaking) & Maria Norma Moraes Illner (singing)

Príncipe Filipe

Prince Phillip

Roberto de Cleto (speaking) & Osny Silva (singing)

Malévola

Maleficent

Heloísa Helena

Flora

Joyce de Oliveira

Fauna

Nádia Maria

Primavera
Rainha

Merryweather
The Queen

Nancy Wanderley

Rei Estevão

King Stefan

Maurício Sherman (speaking & singing)

Rei Humberto

King Hubert

Hamilton Ferreira (speaking & singing)

Monstro

Maleficent's Goon

Hamilton Ferreira

Narrador

Narrator

Aloysio de Oliveira

Choir

Associação de Canto Coral

Songs

« Era uma Vez um Sonho (Prólogo) » (« Once Upon a Dream (Prologue) »)

performed by : Choir

« Saudação à Princesa Aurora » (« Hail to the Princess Aurora »)

performed by : Choir

« Canta uma Alegre Canção » (« One Gift (The Gifts of Beauty and Song) »)

performed by : Choir

« Quisera Saber » (« I Wonder »)

performed by : Maria Norma Moraes Illner (Aurora)

« Era uma Vez um Sonho » (« Once Upon a Dream »)

performed by : Maria Norma Moraes Illner (Aurora) ; Osny Silva (Phillip) & Choir

« Era uma Vez um Sonho (Reprise) » (« Once Upon a Dream (Reprise) »)

performed by : Maria Norma Moraes Illner (Aurora)

« Brinde dos Reis » (« Skumps »)

performed by : Hamilton Ferreira (King Hubert) ; Maurício Sherman (King Stefan)

« A Canção da Bela Adormecida » (« Sleeping Beauty »)

performed by : Choir

« Era uma Vez um Sonho (Final) » (« Once Upon a Dream (Finale) »)

performed by : Choir

Technical Staff

Luís Delfino
Aloysio de Oliveira
Orlando Figueiredo
Aloysio de Oliveira
Giuseppe Baldacconi
Eugene Armstrong
Luís Delfino
Atlântida Cinematográfica - Rio de Janeiro
? - USA

Dubbing director
Musical director
Translator
Lyricist
Sound engineer
Voice casting
Creative Supervisor
Dubbing studio
Mixing studio

Sources : TV credits
Magazine "Mundo Ilustrado" [December 31, 1960] (Correct voices for Phillip, King Stefan, Flora, Merryweather and Queen)
Newspaper "Diário Carioca" [December 18, 1960] (Musical director, Sound engineer)
Newspaper "O Jornal" [December 18, 1960] (Goon's voice)
Correio Paulistano [June 21, 1960] (Soundtrack)

Release dates :
Brazil - June 29, 1960 (São Paulo)
Brazil - July 9, 1960 (Pernambuco)
Brazil - December 22, 1960 (Rio de Janeiro)
Brazil - May 26, 1961 (Minas Gerais)
Brazil - May 27, 1961 (Rio Grande do Sul)
Brazil - June 22, 1961 (Rio Grande do Norte)
Brazil - July 8, 1961 (Espírito Santo)
Brazil - December 25, 1961 (Amazonas)
Brazil - January 18, 1962 (Paraná)
Brazil - December 30, 1962 (Santa Catarina)
All Brazilian credits (VHS, DVD, BLU-RAY and TV's) countain many mistakes :
- Maria Norma Moraes Illner, the singing voice of Aurora is credited under the name of Norma Maria.
- Joyce de Oliveira's and Nancy Wanderley's roles as Flora and Merryweather are switched.
- Maurício Sherman is wrongly credited as Prince Phillip's speaking voice. In the 50s & 60s, he was pairing with Hamilton Ferreira on a humor show, and they got chosen as King Stefan and King Hubert in 1959, and later as Jasper and Horace in One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961). He confirmed before his death in 2019 that he was King Stefan.
- Selma Lopes is wrongly credited as the Queen. She confirmed later she didn't dub that role; her first Disney role was the Blue Fairy and Pinocchio's singing voice in Pinocchio in 1966.
Many great Radio and TV Stars of the time auditionned for the role of Princess Aurora : Nega Aparecida, Dulce Martins, Daisy Lucidi ...
It was Maria Alice Barreto's first dubbing performance for Disney. She was the secretary of Fernando Lobo, friend of Aloysio de Oliveira, who was conducting the Musical direction and translation. She was invited to audition, and came early : she watched the other actresses trying out for the role, memorizing the lines, and when her turn came, she already knew it well, and got the role eventually.
A mixing mistake was made in "Once Upon A Dream" in the 1989 VHS : the vocalizations of Aurora (PART 1 : between the speaking lines "Your Highness" and "I'm not supposed to speak to strangers" / PART 2 : when she's dancing with the owl between the two parts of the song) were actually of Mary Costa's for PART 1 and Maria Milde's, the German voice, for PART 2. In the 1996 VHS, this mistake was partially fixed : Maria Norma's vocalizations was restored for PART 2; but PART 1 are this time those of Maria Milde's. Reasons for this are still unknown, though it's possible Maria Norma Moraes might have not dubbed originally the 1st vocalizations.