Dietrich in Rio

Dietrich in Rio is a live album by Marlene Dietrich, issued on Columbia Records LP, catalogue number WS 316,[1] and reissued on CD by Sony Music Special Products.

From the early 1950s until the mid-1970s, Dietrich worked almost exclusively as a cabaret artist, performing live in large theatres in major cities worldwide.

[3] On July 24, 1959, Marlene Dietrich, disembarked from a Varig plane in Rio de Janeiro for a short season concerts there and in São Paulo, she was accompanied by pianist Burt Bacharach with whom she performed in highly successful recitals.

According to Billboard Magazine, Columbia Records taped Marlene Dietrich's night club act at the Copacabana in Rio de Janeiro in July, 1959.

AllMusic website gave the album two out of five stars and pointed out that the album "finds Dietrich in a sly, almost silly mood, singing with lusty humor and coy flirtatiousness" and that "Dietrich's voice is huskier than it was in her heyday, but this suits the material, which has been rearranged to fit her new lower register, very well".