Florencia en el Amazonas

// Catán //
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.

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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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