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FLORENCIA EN EL AMAZONAS
PERFORMANCE INFORMATION
Friday, January 31, 2025 at 7:30PM
Sunday, February 2, 2025 at 2:00PM
Raleigh Memorial Auditorium
Martin Marietta Center for the Performing Arts
FLORENCIA EN EL AMAZONAS runs approximately 2 hours and 15 minutes including one intermission.
Performed in Spanish with English translations projected above the stage.
OPERA OVERVIEW
Music by Daniel Catán
Libretto by Marcela Fuentes-Berain
World premiere: Wortham Theatre Center, Houston, Texas, October 25, 1996
*Company Premiere
North Carolina Opera’s first ever Spanish language opera! Embark on a magical and mysterious journey along the mighty Amazon. Glamorous opera legend Florencia Grimaldi is traveling incognito by steamboat through the enchanted rainforest in hopes of finding her long lost love. Wracked by storms and a cholera outbreak, she and her fellow passengers are drawn deeper into the Amazon, where fantasy and reality intertwine, and their hopes and dreams are tested.
“FLORENCIA EN EL AMAZONAS sounds and feels like Puccini and Debussy, with murmurs of Ravel and the film music of Technicolor epics. The music glistens like sun on the river; it is graceful and ravishing.” -Robert Levine, Bachtrack
“The Mexican composer’s style is firmly, richly tonal and melodically effusive, with soaring vocal lines; the orchestration dazzles.” -Andrew Farach-Colton, Gramophone
MORE DETAILS
- College student tickets are $15 and can be purchased online, or by calling the NCO Box Office at 919.792.3853. A valid student ID must be presented at will-call to pick up tickets. Limit of 2 tickets per ID.
- Audio Description will be available for the Friday, January 31st performance, provided by Arts Access.
QUESTIONS? We’re here to help! Call the Box Office at 919.792.3853.
THE ARTISTS
Joseph Mechavich
Conductor
John Hoomes
Director
Vanessa Vasquez
Florencia Grimaldi
Marlen Nahhas
Rosalba
Deborah Nansteel
Paula
Jason Karn
Arcadio
Levi Hernandez
Alvaro
Richard Ollarsaba
Riolobo
Ricardo Lugo
Captain
SUPPORTED BY
This production is generously underwritten by the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, with additional support from Philip and Nancy Hablutzel.
FLORENCIA EN EL AMAZONAS is presented under license from Associated Music Publishers, Inc., copyright owner.
No refunds. All sales final. Casting subject to change.
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