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‘Florencia en el Amazonas’ Review: Exuberant Spanish Singing at the Metropolitan Opera
21Nov By adminNo Comments
World

‘Florencia en el Amazonas’ Review: Exuberant Spanish Singing at the Metropolitan Opera

New YorkThe Mexican composer Daniel Catán’s “Florencia en el Amazonas,” which had its Metropolitan Opera premiere on Thursday, is well-traveled; it has had several productions and been seen in numerous opera houses since its 1996 world premiere at the Houston Grand Opera. There are reasons for its popularity—lush orchestration, ear-pleasing vocal lines, a romantic story—and as one of very few operas in Spanish, it’s a good choice for companies eager to attract Spanish-speaking audiences. It is the Met’s first opera by a Latin American composer and only its third Spanish-language offering (the previous ones were in 1916 and 1926). The resurrected New York City Opera imported a production from Nashville to give the opera its New York premiere in 2016. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company...
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Opera for the public: Spain’s Teatro Real opera house offers free broadcast to towns and cities
29Jul By adminNo Comments
Entertainment

Opera for the public: Spain’s Teatro Real opera house offers free broadcast to towns and cities

MADRID -- On a night in the middle of July, tenors, sopranos and a choir delighted the crowd in Madrid’s luxurious Teatro Real opera house with Giacomo Puccini’s masterpiece, “Turandot.”After the curtain came down, the audience filed from their plush seats and left the theater’s state-of-the-art air conditioning for the summer swelter outside — only to be met again by the voices of Calaf and Princess Turandot.The performance they had just seen was being replayed on a giant television screen in the big square at the back of the theater.Here, the spectators sat on hundreds of plastic chairs. Many wore shorts and sandals. Others, tourists included, sat on the low walls and benches in the square or leaned on the barriers and the nearby subway station’s railings.Some chewed on rolls of Spanish...
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