For the first time in Eastman Opera Theatre’s history, an opera sung entirely in Spanish (with English supertitles) is coming to Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre. Daniel Catán’s Florencia en el Amazonas (1996), inspired by Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez’s novel Love in the Time of Cholera, will conclude the 2022-23 EOT season from March 30-April 2.

Florencia en el Amazonas charts a nautical voyage across the Amazon River for Florencia Grimaldi, a famous opera singer who contemplates the past and future enroute to her next performance in Brazil. Employing magic realism, a narrative technique that is characterized by the matter-of-fact inclusion of fantastic or mythical elements into seemingly realistic fiction, Catán’s setting of this intriguing story paints the characters in richly varied music of ravishing beauty.

This production is double-cast and runs for two hours including an intermission. Alongside conductor Wilson Southerland, Octavio Cardenas makes his Eastman directorial debut. 

Tickets are $20 for general admission and can be purchased at the Eastman Theatre Box Office website or in person at 433 East Main Street.

Full press release can be found online. Select interviews and additional photos available upon request.