Florencia en el Amazonas

Florencia en el Amazonas
Opera by Daniel Catán
The opera's setting, a steamboat on the Amazon in the early 1900s
LibrettistMarcela Fuentes-Berain
LanguageSpanish
Based onLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Premiere
25 October 1996 (1996-10-25)
Wortham Theater Center, Houston, Texas

Florencia en el Amazonas (English title: Florencia in the Amazon) is an opera in two acts composed by Daniel Catán. It contains elements of magical realism in the style of Gabriel García Márquez and uses a libretto by Marcela Fuentes-Berain, one of his pupils. The characters are inspired by García Márquez, but the story is not drawn directly from any of his works. Florencia was co-commissioned by Houston Grand Opera, Los Angeles Opera, and Seattle Opera and premiered in Houston on October 25, 1996. It was the first Spanish-language opera to be commissioned by major United States opera houses.

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