desirePlate 764 · Manaus, Brazil

Teatro Amazonas

An opera house in the jungle, paid for in rubber, with tiles from Alsace.

1896 · Celestial Marques, Bernardo Cabral, etc. · South America

The chamber score

Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5

Heitor Villa-Lobos · 1938–45

An aria over the bay.

An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.

Why it is here

The Amazon Theatre, a monument of the rubber boom.

Commission the full chamber

This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.

Ask the studio to reconstruct Teatro Amazonas through desire — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Teatro Amazonas was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.