Amazon Opera Festival Details Announced
The XVI Amazon Opera Festival will take place in May 2012 at the Teatro Amazonas in Manaus. The program includes performances of Lulu by Alban Berg; The Puritans from Vicenzo Bellini; The Tosca Concerto by Giacomo Puccini; and The Magic Flute from Mozart.
The XVI Amazon Opera Festival will take place in April & May 2012 at the Teatro Amazonas in Manaus. The program includes performances of Lulu by Alban Berg; The Puritans from Vicenzo Bellini; The Tosca Concerto by Giacomo Puccini; and The Magic Flute from Mozart.
2012 Program:
Friday 20 April - Lulu
Sunday 22 April - Lulu
Tuesday 24 April - The Puritans
Friday 27 April - The Puritans
Saturday 28 April - Lulu
Sunday 29 April - The Puritans
Thursday 2 May - A Flavour of Regional Opera (with the Amazon Choir, a Violin Orchestra and Folkloric Dance - Free Entrance)
Sunday 6 May - Tosca
Saturday 12 May - Tosca
Sunday 13 May - The Magic Flute
Tuesday 15 May - The Magic Flute
Wednesday 16 May - Stabat Mater from Pergolesie and Requiem from Mozart/Lichtenthal (with the Camara Orchestra and Amazonas Dance Troop - Free Entrance)
Thursday 17 May - The Magic Flute
All performances begin at 8:00pm, except for those on Sunday which begin at 7:00pm.
The festival takes place, of course, in the Teatro Amazonas, the opera house at the heart of the Amazon Rainforest. This amazing building was built at the height of the late 19th Century Rubber Boom, when Manaus was described as ‘one of the gaudiest cities in the world’ as rubber barons competed for extravagance. Some grand houses still exist, but the theatre with its imports of Italian marble, Scottish wrought iron, French furniture and Venetian chandeliers is the grandest of them all. There are parts from the Amazon too, with hard wood and a rubber entrance road made from local materials. The road was made out of rubber so that the wooden wheels of late arriving carriages would not disprupt the performances! Now you may think that incorporating a Late Arrivals Feature into the design of the building says something about Brazil and its relaxed attitude to promptness, but we couldn't possibly comment!
All performances begin at 8:00pm, except for those on Sunday which begin at 7:00pm.
The festival takes place, of course, in the Teatro Amazonas, the opera house at the heart of the Amazon Rainforest. This amazing building was built at the height of the late 19th Century Rubber Boom, when Manaus was described as ‘one of the gaudiest cities in the world’ as rubber barons competed for extravagance. Some grand houses still exist, but the theatre with its imports of Italian marble, Scottish wrought iron, French furniture and Venetian chandeliers is the grandest of them all. There are parts from the Amazon too, with hard wood and a rubber entrance road made from local materials. The road was made out of rubber so that the wooden wheels of late arriving carriages would not disprupt the performances! Now you may think that incorporating a Late Arrivals Feature into the design of the building says something about Brazil and its relaxed attitude to promptness, but we couldn't possibly comment!
The paving outside in the praça is also a representation of the Meeting of the Waters, and the design was copied for the paving of Copacabana Beach in Rio. The Meeting of the Waters is the natural phenomenon which occurs when the two huge tributaries of the Amazon, the Rio Negro and the Rio Solimoes, meet but don't mix for miles in the centre of the river. Differences in temperature, density and flow speed due to different nutrients in the water mean that the two sides only run into each other further down what from here to the sea, 1,500km away, is now known as the mighty Amazon River.
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