Florencia en el Amazonas

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

Venue

California Theatre
Box Office Entrance
345 S 1st St, San Jose, CA

Market Street Entrance
340 S Market St, San Jose, CA

Cast & Crew

Florencia Grimaldi
Soprano
Paula
Mezzo-soprano
Rosalba
Soprano
Arcadio
Tenor
Alvaro
Baritone
Riolbo
Baritone
Captain
Bass-Baritone
Conductor
Joseph Marcheso
Conductor (5/3 and 5/5)
Johannes Löhner
Director
Crystal Manich
Associate Director
Haley Stamats
Scenic Designer
Liliana Duque-Piñeiro
Lighting Designer
Tláloc López-Watermann
Costume Designer
Ulises Alcala
Hair and Makeup Designer
Y. Sharon Peng

Soprano 
Rebecca Bradley
Rachel Beninghof
Kyounghee Lee
Elise van Etten 

Mezzo 
Lauren Biglow
Danielle Imai
Brennah Kemmerly

Tenor 
Joachim Luis
Eric Mellum
Daniel Rios
Nicolas Vasquez-Gerst

Bass 
Andrew Fellows
Robert Glenmore Hall III
Brendan Stone 

Rosalba
Alexa Anderson
Riolbo
Joel Balzun
Florencia Grimaldi
Cara Gabrielson
Captain
Robert Glenmore Hall III
Arcadio
Fran Daniel Laucerica
Alvaro
Bernardo Mediros
Paula
Deborah Rosengaus

James Santiago
Fernando Solorio Velasco

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