"Florencia undertakes a journey that will bring her back to her origins,” said composer Daniel Catán of his opera Florencia en el Amazonas. “It is, I believe, the story of the return journey that we all undertake at a certain point in our lives…the moment when we look back at what we once dreamed of becoming, and then confront what we have now become.”

The great opera singer Florencia Grimaldi embarks on a journey up the Amazon to the opera house in Manaus where she hopes to meet Cristobal, the lover she left behind long ago. As Cristobal searches for the rare butterfly known as the Emerald Muse, Florencia searches for the meaning in her life—a life filled with the glamour of the stage, but empty at its core. Through the arduous journey up the exotic river, Florencia seeks to achieve a mystical reunion with her former lover.

SYNOPSIS &  BACKGROUND

CAST

Florencia: Alexandra Rafalo
Rosalba: Emily Duncan-Brown
Arcadio: Evanivaldo Correa Serrano
Paula: Shirin Eskandani
Alvaro: Kenny Stavert
Riolobo: Daniel Snodgrass
Capitan: Benjamin Clements