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Florencia en el Amazonas both the 1996 opera and its title character has trouble shaking off troublesome ghosts.
The arias aspire to Puccini-level rapture.
The references go on.
Its easy to surrender.
Alas, Act II only sporadically delivers.
She also winds up falling for the ship captains oozingly sincere nephew and designated deck-swabber, Arcadio.
(What he really wants to do is fly planes.)
All thats missing is a tenor Poirot.
Instead, theres Florencia, who has little interest in her fellow passengers troubles.
And just as Florencia will never find her Cristobal, the aria never finds its heart.
Florencia en el Amazonasis at the Metropolitan Opera through December 14.
