Experience in cinemas from January 13
★★★★ “Worth a century’s wait…Vivid romanticism…Lyrical, colorful, with great vitality…An excellent Ailyn Pérez…er sound lustrous, full and elegant…The orchestra sounds fantastic…An involving production with lots of pleasures. It flows like a river and adds to the sense of renewal through contemporary works at the Met this fall. ” -Financial Times
“Magic made real Visually stunning and emotionally affecting…A perfect choice to bring Spanish-language opera into the mainstream…A riotous rainbow of color…aw-dropping costumes…a feast for the eyes.” -Observer
Inspired by the magical realism of novelist Gabriel García Márquez, with a libretto by Mexican writer Marcela Fuentes-Berain, Catán’s 1996 opera follows Florencia Grimaldi, a South American opera diva who returns to her homeland to perform at the legendary opera house of Manaus and to search for her lost lover, who has vanished into the jungle.
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