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Amazon Theatre (Manaus)

Brazil / Amazonas / Manaus
 opera house, theatre

Largo de São Sebastião - Centro, Manaus - AM, 69067-080, Brazil
Phone: +55 92 3622-1880
cultura.am.gov.br/portal/teatro-amazonas/#

The Amazon Theatre (Teatro Amazonas) is an opera house located in the heart of Manaus, inside the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil. It is the location of the annual Festival Amazonas de Ópera (Amazonas Opera Festival) held in April. It was built during the Belle Époque at a time when fortunes were made in the rubber boom.

The theatre is featured in the film Fitzcarraldo directed by the German director Werner Herzog in 1982. At the beginning of the film, the opera-obsessed character Brian Sweeney "Fitzcarraldo" Fitzgerald makes his way to the opera house to hear Enrico Caruso sing in Verdi's Ernani. He arrives right at the end of the opera and there are scenes of the interior of house. While it is believed that the house was constructed to attract Caruso to perform at its opening, there is some doubt that he actually did perform there.
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Coordinates:   3°7'48"S   60°1'24"W
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