Florencia en el Amazonas

April 20 - May 5, 2024

Description

Opera San José concludes its 40th anniversary season with the Bay Area premiere of Daniel Catán’s captivating masterpiece, Florencia en el Amazonas, the company’s first Spanish language opera performed on its mainstage. In this two-act work, acclaimed Mexican composer Catán transports audiences to a 20th-century riverboat journeying down the Amazon River. There, a famous opera singer is returning home to perform, while hoping to reunite with her lover, a butterfly hunter who has disappeared into the jungle. With a libretto by Marcela Fuentes-Berain, this story rich in allusion that bridges drama and fantasy includes motifs taken from and characters inspired by the novel Love in the Time of Cholera by Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez, Florencia en el Amazonas will be performed in Spanish with English and Spanish supertitles. Internationally celebrated director Crystal Manich, who helmed the OSJ’s award-winning production of West Side Story, returns to direct. Opera San José Director of Music Joseph Marcheso will conduct.

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Length

The performance will run approximately two hours and fifteen minutes with one intermission.

The run time includes the intermission in its overall time.

Doors open 90 minutes before the performance.

12:30 PM for matinees and 6:00 PM for evening performances

Join us for a pre-show discussion at 1:00 PM for matinees and 6:30 PM for evening performances.

For our 4/20 and 4/21 performances, the pre-show lecture will be given by Conductor in Residence Johannes Löhner.

For all remaining performances, the pre-show lecture will be given by Héctor Armienta.

The organ player will be performing 30 minutes before curtain.

Florencia en el Amazonas
Composed by Daniel Catán
Libretto by Marcela Fuentes-Berain
Presented under license from G.Shirmer Inc. and Associated Music Publishers, copyright owners

Parking

We always encourage you to choose public transportation when possible, but if you do drive, please give yourself plenty of extra time and carpool whenever possible.

For those being dropped off / picked up, there is a passenger loading zone directly in front of the theatre entrance. For more information on parking in Downtown San Jose please visit parksj.org