Houston Grand Opera, Patrick Summers, Ana María Martínez, Alicia Gianni, Joshua Guerrero, Norman Garrett - Daniel Catán: Florencia en el Amazonas (2026)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 97:22 minutes | 1,79 GB
Classical, Opera | Label: Houston Grand Opera, Official Digital Download
Catán wrote Florencia en el Amazonas, the first Spanish-language opera commissioned by a major American company, in collaboration with Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez and his protégée, Marcela Fuentes-Berain. Loosely based on García Marquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera, Florencia taps deeply into the novelist’s world of magical realism. Since its premiere at Houston Grand Opera in 1996, it has been performed by major companies including LA Opera, Seattle Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Washington National Opera, and the Metropolitan Opera, where it was presented in a new production in 2024. “I set out to write beautiful music for a story of the journey to transcendent love; it concerns all of us who have lived love with all its intricacies, subtleties, wretchedness, and glorious happiness.”