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… with a Spanish libretto by Marcela Fuentes-Berain and based on the work of Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez. It premiered October 25, 1996, at the Houston Grand Opera, which had co-commissioned the work with opera houses in Los Angeles, Seattle, and Bogotá, Colombia.
The first opera in Spanish to be commissioned by a major opera company in the United States, Florencia—with a libretto by Marcela Fuentes-Berain, a student of García Márquez—is a joint commission by Houston Grand Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Seattle Opera, and Ópera de Colombia.
Marcela Fuentes-Berain, a Mexican playwright and screenwriter, has made significant contributions to theater and television in Latin America.
uionista de televisión y cine, poeta, traductora y ensayista. Nació en 1955 en la Ciudad de México. Estudió Filosofía en la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Cursó diversos talleres de guionismo y dramaturgia con escritores como Gabriel García Márquez, Hugo Argüelles y Syd Field.
It’s also the first opera at the Met by a Mexican composer, Catán, whose librettist, Marcela Fuentes-Berain, also hails from Mexico City.
The libretto, by Marcela Fuentes-Berain, is an original story rich in allusion to other tales that skirt the border between drama and fantasy. Fuentes-Berain was a student of Gabriel García Márquez, whose style of magical informs the plot.
Nov 17, 2023 · The Metropolitan Opera premiere of Florencia en el Amazonas, by composer Daniel Catán and librettist Marcela Fuentes-Berain, opened November 16 —and the reviews are in!
