Teatro Colón in 2025

Teatro Colón 2025 – new productions and a premiere

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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.

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Opera at Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires this season

Slimmed and old and new for the 2024 Teatro Colón season 

2019 production of Ariadne auf Naxos © Teatro Colón/Arnaldo Colombaroli

A consequence of the difficult economic conditions and the need for a level of austerity in Argentina, as well as possibly another well-publicised issue, the Teatro Colón’s 2024 season was announced ‘unseasonally’ late (in February, rather than the usual previous November) and at least for opera, it is leaner in number with a focus on revivals of past popular productions and more use of local rather than visiting artists.

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Anna Netrebko leads a starry cast in Teatro Colón’s semi-staged Il trovatore

ArgentinaArgentina Verdi, Il trovatore: Soloists, Permanent Chorus and Orchestra of Teatro Colón / Giacomo Sagripanti (conductor). Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires. 15.8.2023. (JSJ)

Fabián Veloz (Count di Luna) and Anna Netrebko (Leonora) in Teatro Colón’s Il trovatore © Maximo Parpagnoli

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Italian songs partner Cavelleria rusticana to open Juventus Lyrica’s season

ArgentinaArgentina Festival della Canzonetta Italiana and Mascagni, Cavalleria rusticana (arr. Antonio Russo): Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Juventus Lyrica / André dos Santos (conductor). Teatro Avenida, Buenos Aires, 2.6.2023. (JSJ)

Marcelo Gomez (Turiddu) in Juventus Lyrica’s Cavalleria rusticana © Liliana Morsia

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