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Catán was the first Mexican composer to have an opera produced in the United States, when San Diego Opera produced his opera Rappaccini's Daughter in March 1994. He has also composed orchestral and chamber works and film music.
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His opera, Rappaccini’s Daughter, was the first opera by a Mexican Composer ever produced by a professional opera company in the United States (by San Diego Opera in 1994) and he is primarily responsible for the adoption and popularization of the Spanish language in contemporary opera and art song.
Florencia en el Amazonas (English title: Florencia in the Amazon) is an opera in two acts composed by Daniel Catán. It contains elements of magical realism in the style of Gabriel García Márquez and uses a libretto by Marcela Fuentes-Berain, one of his pupils.
Dec 13, 2012 · Until his untimely death in April of 2011, Mexican-born composer Daniel Catán was arguably the most notable Latin American composer in the field, and certainly the pre-eminent composer of Latino opera. His upbringing and training were exceedingly cosmopolitan, spanning multiple continents.
Oct 25, 2019 · There is a common misconception that melodic opera in the vein of the great romantics of the 19 th century is dead in the 21 st century. Most composers today would have you believe that. But Daniel Catán never did and his masterpiece “Florencia en el Amazonas” bears this out better than anyone else. The work, which had its world premiere ...
Commissioned by the University of Texas, Austin. Opera was left unfinished by Catán: additional music comissioned by the Cincinnati Opera and Gotham Chamber Opera, New York. The official website of the Mexican composer Daniel Catán. He is known for his lush, lyrical and romantic writing style.
Catán was working on Meet John Doe, his first opera in English, at the time of his passing. Based on the 1941 Frank Capra film of the same name, it tells the story of a "grassroots" political campaign created unwittingly by a newspaper columnist and pursued by a wealthy businessman.
