Teatro Colón 2025 – new productions and a premiere
Ongoing but albeit improving difficult economic conditions in Argentina are reflected in the forthcoming 2025 opera season at the Teatro Colón – not least in the sparse prospectus for the year, compared with the more comprehensive and substantial editions of previous years.
Like 2024, the 2025 season foresees just seven works but a diverse selection and four of them as new local productions with only two having been put on previously within the last decade.
The season also is notable for taking place under a new management, led by Gerardo Grieco as the director general. A Uruguayan by birth, he brings a long career in culture in that country, including heading up the Teatro Solis in Montevideo.
The new director of opera, Andrés Rodríguez, also is from outside Argentina. A native of Chile, for many years he was artistic and general director of the Teatro Municipal de Santiago.
And heading up the Opera Studio is Verónica Cangemi who has made her name as a specialist in the Baroque.
The season starts in March with Roberto Oswald’s 1996 production of ‘Aida’. Maria Jose Siri takes the title role, with Daniela Barcellona as Amneris, Youngjun Park as Amonasro, Martin Muehle as Radamès and Simon Lim as Ramfis and musical direction by Stefano Ranzani.
Puccini’s Il trittico follows in May in a production from the Teatro Comunale di Bologna with Beatrice Venezi conducting. Fabian Veloz takes the role of
Michele and Carla Filipcic Holm as Giorgetta in Il tabarro, Carolina Lopez Moreno takes the title role in Suor Angelica and Ricardo Seguel similarly in Gianni Schicchi, with others still to be named.
Benjamin Britten’s Billy Budd premieres in Argentina in July under the musical direction of Erik Nielsen. John Chest is Billy Budd, Toby Spence is Captain Vere and Hernan Iturralde is John Claggart.
A second new production of the season is Massenet’s Werther in August/September with Jean-Francois Borras in the title role and Annalisa Stroppa as Charlotte. The conductor is Ramon Tebar.
A concert version of I puritani follows later in September under Maurizio Benini, with principals including Jessica Pratt as Elvira, Dmitry Korchak as Arturo, German Alcantara as Riccardo and Riccardo Fassi as Giorgio.
Another new production in October/November is Richard Strauss’s Salome. The musical director is Philippe Auguin with Ricarda Merbeth as Salome, Norbert Ernst as Herod, Nancy Fabiola Herrera as Herodias and Egils Siliņš as Jochanaan.
Then the season closes in the last fortnight of November with a new production of the always popular La traviata. Daniel Oren conducts a cast including Liparit Avetisyan as Alfredo and Vladimir Stoyanov as Père Germont.
For more information on the 2025 season download the guide here.
Jonathan Spencer Jones