![]() ![]() Ultimately, Manaus is reached only to learn that it is closed due to a cholera epidemic. A storm at sea threatens disaster but the ship and its travelers are saved by Riolobo who appears transformed as a butterfly. There is also the Captain, his day-dreamy nephew Arcadio, and Riolobo a mystical river spirit who serves as a narrator and ship factotum.Īs the melancholy Florencia pines for her lost lover, romance blossoms between Rosalba and Arcadio while the older couple continues to argue. Also aboard is Rosalba, a young journalist who is writing a biography of Florencia, and Paula and Alvaro, a quarrelsome middle-aged couple trying to rekindle their relationship. The diva herself is traveling incognito on the ship and hoping to encounter her long-lost lover, the butterfly hunter Cristobal. A motley group of people are aboard the steamship El Dorado, all taking a trip up the Amazon to Manaus to hear the celebrated opera singer Florencia Grimaldi. The action takes place in early 20th-century Brazil. That laudatory reception has been repeated at its many revivals since at major and regional houses over the past two-and-a-half decades. ![]() Premiered at Houston Grand Opera in 1996, Daniel Catán’s opera received both critical acclaim and audience popularity at its debut-a rarity for any contemporary opera. ![]() Photo: Cory WeaverĪfter many stops at ports of call around the world over the past 25 years, Florencia en el Amazonas finally docked at the Civic Opera House Saturday night for its belated Chicago premiere. Ana María Martínez stars in Daniel Catán’s Florencia en al Amazonas at Lyric Opera. ![]()
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