Teatro Colón [SEP] architect
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Teatro de Cristóbal Colón


The Teatro de Cristóbal Colón (The Christopher Columbus Theatre), also known as the "Teatro Colón", is located in Bogotá, Colombia and it is the nation's National Theatre. It was built in the Neoclassical style by the Italian architect Pietro Cantini in 1885 and inaugurated on 27 October 1892 on the occasion of the fourth centenary of the discovery of America with a performance of Verdi's "Ernani". The auditorium was constructed in the tradition horseshoe-shape and modelled on the layout of the Palais Garnier in Paris
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, but only about half the size. The Colón Theatre was declared a National Monument on 11 August 1975, and underwent renovations for three years. Between 2009 and 2010, the theatre was closed for extensive renovations. The Teatro Colón was built within an area of 2.400 square metres. Its Neoclassical style and its facade was designed following the Tuscan Doric order in carved stone, with three parts separated from each other by cornices also made of stone. It was built by the Italian architect Pietro Cantini, who was also working in
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the construction of the Capitolio Nacional (National Capitol) at the time. The construction started on the 5th October 1885 in the same place where the old Ramírez Coliseum and Maldonado Theatre used to be located. The Swiss architect Luigi Ramelli was in charge of the ornaments and the decoration of this construction. The theatre was named in honour of Christopher Columbus, and was inaugurated on the 12th October 1892 to commemorate the Discovery of America. The Teatro Colón was declared a National Monument by decree 1584 of 11 August 1975. In 2007
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. The cornerstone of the present Teatro Colón was laid in 1889 under the direction of architect Francesco Tamburini and his pupil, Vittorio Meano, who designed a theatre in the Italian style on a scale and with amenities which matched those in Europe. However, delays followed due to financial difficulties, arguments regarding the location, the death of Tamburini in 1891, the murder of Meano in 1904 and the death of Angelo Ferrari, an Italian businessman who was financing the new theatre. The building was finally completed in 1908 under the direction
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cause for the delay in the completion of this second theater. Before the construction of the current Teatro Colón, opera performances were given in several theatres, of which the first Teatro Colón and the Teatro Opera were the most important. The principal company that performed at the Teatro Opera moved to the Teatro Colón in 1908. However, major companies also performed at the Teatro Politeama and the Teatro Coliseo which opened in 1907. The theatre is bounded by the wide 9 de Julio Avenue (technically Cerrito Street), Libertad Street (
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Teatro Argentino de La Plata


The Teatro Argentino de La Plata is the second most important lyric opera house in Argentina, after the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. The theatre is located in a central block of the city of La Plata, the capital of Buenos Aires Province. The venue occupies the block bounded by the 9 and 10 streets and 51 & 53 avenues; it belongs to the "Monumental Axis" of public buildings in La Plata. The original building was a classic Italian opera house, conceived in renaissance style by the Italian architect Leopoldo Rocchi
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Ferri. "All my dreams of dancer were born in the "Teatro Colón"", remembers Ludmila about this period. And yet, it had been several years that the ballet of the "Teatro Colón" had not offered a single position for a dancer. In 1999, Ricardo Bustamante, artistic director of the ballet of the "Teatro Colón" (and current ballet master and assistant artistic director with the San Francisco Ballet) left to take the direction of the ballet of the "Teatro Municipal de Santiago" in
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to its completion in 1906, respecting Meano’s original designs. In the city of La Plata, Dormal was involved with the building of the Government House, and in Buenos Aires with the final details of the Teatro Colón and with the remodeling of the old Teatro Opera. Dormal took over the building of the Pereda Palace in Buenos Aires, begun in 1919 for the wealthy doctor and cattle rancher Celedonio Pereda, when Pereda fell out with the original French architect, Louis Martin. Dormal died in 1924 and did not see the
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the renowned Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires by concession. Supervised by the nation's Ministry of Public Works, the project was commissioned to architect Alfredo Israel, and its plans were approved in October 1923. The theatre was, as were many public works of this type in Argentina at the time, designed in a French Academy style. Its façade included a Neoclassical frontis featuring four Corinthian columns on a green marble base, a rococo frieze, the provincial escutcheon in bas-relief, and a balustrade above. The design for the
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, the theatre ranked seventh in a nationwide poll to choose the 7 wonders of Colombia conducted by the El Tiempo newspaper. On 24 November 2016, the between the Colombian government, lead by Juan Manuel Santos, and the FARC, commanded by Rodrigo Londoño, alias Timochenko, was signed at the Teatro Colón, this way ending more than 50 years of conflict and war between the two parties. The main hall of the Teatro de Cristóbal Colón was inaugurated on 12th October 1892. Great artists have performed there and many international and
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were "Swan Lake" on 30 September with the Ballet Estable del Teatro Colón and the Buenos Aires Philharmonic ("Orquesta Filarmónica de Buenos Aires"). and, on 28 October, the opera "Boris Godunov" was given featuring Orquesta Estable del Teatro Colón and the house chorus. The theatre's final performance before its closure for refurbishment works in 2005 was a concert on 1 November starring folklore singer Mercedes Sosa in performance with the Argentine National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Pedro Ignacio Calderón. While it was originally planned to
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dance course at the Teatro Colón (Colombus Theatre) in 1924. While her sisters performed with the "Cuerpo de Baile" in 1925, Ruanova joined Adolph Bolm's ballet, Siluetas. She and her sisters were given a position at the Teatro Colón the following year. Ruanova was first a soloist and, by 1932, a prima ballerina at Teatro Colón. Here they were further tutored by dance greats such as Bronislava Nijinska, Boris Romanoff, Elena Smirnova, Michel Fokine, Antonia Mercé and Serge Lifar. Ruanova earned a
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Alice Cucini


numerous productions throughout the next fourteen years, including the Teatro Comunale di Bologna (1899), Teatro Donizetti di Bergamo (1900), Teatro Regio di Parma (1902), Teatro Colón (1910), and a few performances of the role in Spain. In 1898 Cucini traveled to Russia where she sang in several operas in Saint Petersburg and portrayed the role of Gertrude in Ambroise Thomas's "Hamlet" in Odessa. In 1901 and 1902 she sang at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires and the Solís Theatre in Montevideo
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Vittorio Meano


Vittorio Meano (1860, Susa, Piedmont1904) was an Italian architect born in Susa, Italy, near Turin. He studied architecture in Albertina Academy in Turin. In 1884 he arrived in Argentina to work in the studio of the Italian architect Francesco Tamburini, who at that time was involved in a number of major public works, including the enlargement and renovation of the Casa Rosada. They worked together on the new building for the Teatro Colón until the death of Tamburini in 1890, after which Meano took charge of the project
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school was donated to the City of Buenos Aires hall. Its open architectural approach is new, valuing the green spaces for expansion and recreational areas Inside the school there is the techno-educational museum Lorenzo Raggio, which objective is the recovering, restoring, and the cataloging of photographic, artistic, technical material found in the institution. There are the "Teatro Colón" builders plans, that is a set of more than 30 plans from 1892 sealed by the architect Vittorio Meano studio, who was one of the three architects involved
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a facade of applied masonry. It has a large central chandelier with 700 light bulbs. The original architect was the Italian Francesco Tamburini; after his death it was completed by the Belgian architect Julio Dormal. The original auditorium "had eight boxes with metal grilles and a separate entrance, so that those in mourning could still attend performances, but remain dignifiedly sequestered from public view". The Colon's acoustics are considered to be so good as to place it in the top five performance venues in the world. Luciano Pavarotti held
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Italian Colombian


Italians in the XIX century, like the famous Colón Theater of the capital. It is one of the most representative theatres of Colombia, with a neoclasic architecture: was built by the Italian architect Pietro Cantini and founded in 1892; has more than 2,400 square metres (26,000 sq ft) for 900 people. This famous Italian architect also contributed to the construction of the Capitolio Nacional of the capital. The sculptor Cesare Sighinolfi travelled to Bogotà, Colombia in 1880, invited by his mentor Pietro Cantini to help decorate the Teatro Cristobal
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The Teatro Colón (Spanish: "Columbus Theatre") is the main opera house in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is considered one of the ten best opera houses in the world by National Geographic, and is acoustically considered to be amongst the five best concert venues in the world. The present Colón replaced an original theatre which opened in 1857. Towards the end of the century it became clear that a new theatre was needed and, after a 20-year process, the present theatre opened on 25 May 1908, with Giuseppe
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Banco de la Nación Argentina


allocated to commercial loans. The bank's headquarters are located in the San Nicolás neighborhood of Buenos Aires on the site of the Teatro Colón's first building, bought by the national government in 1888 and later designated as main offices of the recently founded institution. The edifice was remodeled in 1910 by architect Adolfo Büttner to better suit its new role as a bank venue. In 1938 architect Alejandro Bustillo presented a new design for a much larger building in a revivalist, French-influenced, Monumental Neoclassical style. These new headquarters were
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El gran teatro


El gran teatro (Spanish "The Great (or Grand) Theatre") is a 1979 novel by Argentine writer Manuel Mujica Laínez, part of his Buenos Aires series. The whole action of the novel takes place during a performance of Wagner's "Parsifal" at Buenos Aires' famous opera house, the Teatro Colón. The Colón is, emblematically and par excellence, The Great Theatre, a giant and impossibly splendiferous jewellery box built, in an improbable bygone age, for a glitteringly self-assured class of leaders (
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Hariclea Darclée


Ettore Panizza "Aurora" (Aurora) – opera composed for her voice and interpreted in prima assoluta at Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires in 1909; Giacomo Puccini "Manon Lescaut" (Manon Lescaut) – opera composed for her voice and interpreted in première for Teatro alla Scala of Milan on 27 March 1897; Giacomo Puccini "La Bohème" (Mimì) – opera interpreted in première for America at Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires in 1896 and in première for Romania at Bucharest National Theatre on 15 January 1903; Giacomo Puccini "
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Virginio Colombo


Virginio Colombo (1885–1927) was a prolific Italian architect later active in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Born in 1885 in Milan, Italy, Colombo studied architecture in the Brera Academy under Giuseppe Sommaruga, the city's leading exponent of the Art Nouveau style. A fellow student, Antonio Sant'Elia, later became the number one advocate of Futurism in Italian architecture. During the early part of the 20th century there were many immigrant Italian architects working in Buenos Aires including Francesco Tamburini, who designed the Teatro Colón, Vittorio Meano, who designed
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Conservatorio Nacional Superior de Música (Argentina)


upon the School of Lyric and Scenic Art held at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, the conservatory focused on both lyric and theatrical studies, providing instruction in composition, vocal and instrument music, recitation and speech. Carlos López Buchardo became the first director and the first assistant director was . The conservatory began its operations at the Teatro Colón. Within a few years, in 1930 the Conservatory relocated to the upper floors of the Teatro Nacional Cervantes. In 1928, renowned Russian prima ballerina, Elena Smirnova was hired as the first
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Tirelli Costumi


, La Fenice in Venice, La Scala in Milan, Teatro Regio in Parma, Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Teatro Municipale Giuseppe Verdi in Salerno, Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania, Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari, Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville, Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Teatro Comunale in Ferrara, Teatro delle Muse in Ancona, Teatro Flavio Vespasiano in Rieti, Teatro di Palma in Majorca, Teatro Pérez Galdós on Gran Canaria, Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, the Liceu in Barcelona, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires,
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, former Apollo) Shaare Sedek Synagogue (1946–1947), the building of the Agricultural Exhibition (1936, later became Industrial School), the Eckardt building (1939 ), the former residence of the Cuban architect Manuel Carrerá in the Bellavista neighborhood, the García building (1938), Teatro Colón (1946), the former building of Avianca (1934), the last four designed by Manuel Carrerá. The Estadio Romelio Martínez stadium was recognized in 1995 as a national monument by the Ministry of Culture, the first Art Deco
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several buildings of Buenos Aires such as the Iglesia Santa Felicitas by Ernesto Bunge; the Palace of Justice, the National Congress, all of them by Vittorio Meano, and the Teatro Colón, by Francesco Tamburini and Vittorio Meano. The simplicity of the "Rioplatense" baroque style can be clearly seen in Buenos Aires through the works of Italian architects such as André Blanqui and Antonio Masella, in the churches of San Ignacio, Nuestra Señora del Pilar, the Cathedral and the Cabildo. In 1912, the Basilica del Santisimo Sacramento was
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Seville


high bronze sculpture, "The Birth of a New Man" (popularly known as Columbus's Egg, "el Huevo de Colón"), by the Georgian sculptor Zurab Tsereteli, is located in its northwestern sector. The Teatro Lope de Vega is located on Avenida de María Luisa avenue (next to Parque María Luisa). It was built in 1929, being its architect Vicente Traver y Tomás. It was the auditorium of the pavilion of the city in the Ibero-American Exhibition. This pavilion had a large room
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of the Belgian architect Julio Dormal who made some changes in the structure and left his mark in the French style of the decoration. The bas-reliefs and busts on the facade are the work of sculptor Luigi Trinchero. The theatre's opening on 25 May, the "Día de la Patria" in Argentina, featured a performance of Verdi's "Aida" and it quickly became a world-famous operatic venue rivaling La Scala and the Metropolitan Opera in attracting most of the world's best opera singers and conductors. The
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Aurora (opera)


season of the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, where it premiered on 5 September 1908. The main tenor aria, "Alta en el cielo" ("High in the sky"), from the "intermedio épico" at the finale of Act 2 was used as a national hymn to the Argentine flag. The later revised version of the opera set in Spanish was premiered on 9 July 1945 and is now considered the Argentine patriotic opera "par excellence". "Aurora" was also performed at Teatro Colón in 1909
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Radmila Bakočević


Romanian National Opera, Bucharest, the Teatro Colón, the Teatro Comunale Florence, the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, the Teatro di San Carlo, the Teatro Massimo, the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, the Teatro Regio di Parma, and the Teatro Regio di Torino to name just a few. A spinto soprano, Bakočević sang a wide repertoire that encompassed works from the 17th through the 20th century. She particularly excelled in portraying Puccini and Verdi heroines and was also admired for a handful of roles in operas by Strauss and Wagner
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Michael Gielen


found a position at the Vienna Burgtheater. The family followed there in 1938. Michael attended gymnasium and took piano lessons. Josef Gielen successfully staged at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1938 and 1939, and managed to get immigration papers for his wife and the two children. In 1940, the family left for Argentina, leaving most of their belongings behind. Gielen began his career as a pianist in Buenos Aires, where he studied with . As a répétiteur at the Teatro Colón at age 20, he
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Punto Obelisco


and Diagonal Norte. It derives its name and associations from a church once sited on the square, San Nicolás de Bari (demolished in the 1930s for the creation of 9 July Avenue), where the country's national flag was hoisted for the first time. Teatro Colón The Teatro Colón (Spanish) (Columbus Theatre) is the main opera house in Buenos Aires, Argentina, considered one of the best five opera houses in the world. It was opened on the 25th of May, 1908 with Verdi's Aïda.
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the San Nicolás neighborhood of Buenos Aires on the site of the Teatro Colón's first building, bought by the national government in 1888 and later designated as main offices of the recently founded national bank. The edifice was remodeled in 1910 by architect Adolfo Büttner to better suit its new role. In 1938 Alejandro Bustillo presented a new design for a much larger, structure, which was built in two stages between 1940 and 1955. The building is also home to the Alejandro Bustillo Art Gallery, established in 1971, as well as
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Francesco Tamburini


Francesco Tamburini (Ascoli Piceno, Italy, 1846 – Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1891) was an Italian-born architect who designed many important architectural landmarks in Argentina. He studied architecture in Italy and arrived in Argentina in 1881 where he was employed as Inspector General of National Architecture from 1883 until his death in 1891. His works included the Headquarters of the Provincial Bank of Córdoba, the enlargement of the Casa Rosada, the Central Military Hospital and the initial designs for the Teatro Colón, a project that was completed by Vittorio
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owner replaces Martin with the Belgian architect Jules Dormal Godet who was then in charge of the works of the Teatro Colón. Mr. Raymond Rerny of the Paris firm Jansen was hired to decorate the interiors. In 1935, Brazilian President Getúlio Vargas was invited by the Pereda Family, during an official visit to Argentina, and was delighted with the palace. Seven years later and after the death of both members of Pereda marriage, his heirs offered the palace to Brazil, whose ambassador Mr. João Batista Luzardo signed the contract of sale on
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at the end of December 2006 to allow full refurbishment. Initially, "what had been planned as an 18-month, $25-million renovation with 500 workers, scheduled for a May 2008 reopening with "Aida", became a three-year $100-million extravaganza with 1,500 workers including 130 professional architects and engineers." In addition, an exterior open-air stage was planned for an opening in 2011. In all, underwent updating, both inside and out. Some of the last performances immediately before closure of the theatre's building
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Míriam Colón


theatrical group and for the group to have its own space, Teatro Arena, located in Manhattan on Sixth Avenue between 43rd and 44th street. In 1993, Colón received an Obie Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theater. In 2000, she received the HOLA Raúl Juliá Founders Award, presented by the Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors (HOLA). Colón's biography, titled Míriam Colón: Actor and Theater Founder, was written by Mayra Fernandez in 1994.[9][10] In 2014, President Barack Obama awarded Colón the National Medal of Arts
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Carlo Cossutta


, Mario Melani, and Arturo Wolken in Buenos Aires. He made his professional opera debut in 1956 at a small Argentine theatre as Alfredo in Verdi's "La traviata". His first performance of note came two years later when he appeared for the first time at the Teatro Colón as Cassio in Verdi's "Otello" in 1958. He sang regularly at that house for the next four decades, initially in mainly supporting roles. Notable early appearances at the Teatro Colón include Edgardo in "Lucia di Lammermoor" (1959
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Buenos Aires Philharmonic


The Buenos Aires Philharmonic () is an Argentinian orchestra based in Buenos Aires. Founded in 1946, it is based in the renowned Teatro Colón, and is considered one of the most prestigious orchestras in its nation and Latin America, and has received several honours in 60 years of history. Their local counterparts in the national aegis are the Argentine National Symphony Orchestra and the Teatro Colón Orchestra. The orchestra's current Music Director is Mexican Enrique Diemecke. The Buenos Aires Philharmonic was created in 1946 with the name "Orquesta Sinfónica del
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Ana María González (Spanish singer)


an early age. At age 17 she settled in Buenos Aires, where she perfected her skills at the Teatro Colón Higher Institute of Art, studying with the eminent Argentine soprano Hina Spani. She won the Gold Medal of the Fondo Nacional de las Artes. González debuted at the Teatro Colón in 1973 as El niño in Ravel's "L'enfant et les sortilèges", followed by "El retablo de maese Pedro", Gretel in "Hansel and Gretel", and Micaela in "Carmen" (with Régine Crespin in the
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Susana Naidich


). She made her singing debut at the age of 17 at the School of Opera, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. While studying in Vienna, she performed in the Salzburg Festival under the direction of Georg Solti. After returning to Buenos Aires, she joined the cast of Teatro Colón, performing under the direction of Karl Böhm, Erich Kleiber, and Jean Martinón, among others. Simultaneously, she was appeared as a soloist in other symphonic venues. In the United States, she sang in various festivals, including Tanglewood
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Stefan Lano


the three-act version of Alban Berg's Lulu, he was engaged to inaugurate the 1993 season at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Since that time, he has been a regular guest at the Teatro Colón and served as its Music Director from 2005 to 2008. He made his conducting debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 1997 conducting Igor Stravinsky's The Rakes Progress. This led to engagements at the San Francisco Opera, again for Lulu in 1998 and Douglas Moore's The Ballad of Baby Doe in 2000.
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Verdi's "Aïda". The Teatro Colón was visited by the foremost singers and opera companies of the time, who would sometimes go on to other cities including Montevideo, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. After this period of huge international success, the theatre's decline became clear and plans were made for massive renovations. After an initial start of works to restore the landmark in 2005, the theatre was closed for refurbishment from October 2006 to May 2010. It re-opened on 24 May 2010, with a programme
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Peronism promoted a policy of openness to popular music and greater democratization of the public, which was Reverted after its overthrow in 1955 and again resumed when democracy recovered in 1983. In 2006 a full restoration work was started that would extend until 2010, when it was reopened on May 24 in commemoration of the Bicentennial of Argentina. The first Teatro Colón was designed by Charles Pellegrini, and proved to be a successful venue for over 30 years, with 2,500 seats with the inclusion of a separate gallery reserved only for people who were
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enterprise that after initial failures would turn into a huge success, leading to the construction of the magnificent National Theatre, later called Teatro Colón. An Italian opera company arrived in 1871 bringing Pietro Visoni as orchestra conductor and his wife Luisa Riva de Visoni as prima donna. Visoni was the former organist of the Duomo (cathedral) of Milan. After successful performances in the Teatro Colón and arriving at the time of a liberal revolution, maestro Visoni was asked by President Miguel Garcia Granados to take charge of the bands of the 1st
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Lida Martinoli


Lida Martinoli (1914–1991) was an Argentine dancer, choreographer, and theatre performer in Buenos Aires. Born in Rosario, Santa Fe in 1914, she was the daughter of the artists Fanny Montiano and Carlos Martinoli. She studied ballet at La Scala in Milan before returning to Buenos Aires in 1932. She joined the corps de ballet of the Teatro Colón, where she danced until 1956. At the Teatro Colón, she served as prima ballerina during the 1940s, dancing the choreographies of Vaslav Nijinsky and Margarita Wallmann and starring in
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María Ruanova


filmed "Don Juan" and "L'Épreuve d'amour". Ruanova performed in Mozart's 1942 world premier concert, choreographed by George Balanchine, at Teatro Colón. She was hired by the "Ballet del Marqués de Cuevas" as prima ballerina and Maestro in 1957, and toured Europe with this company. She became ballet director at the Uruguayan SODRE from 1964 to 1967 and at Teatro Colón from 1968 to 1972. Ruanova is celebrated as the first Argentine-born ballet dancer to have learned to dance in Argentina and gain international recognition
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Giulia Novelli


, at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires (1888), at the Teatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro and at the Liceu in Barcelona. In 1888 she sang the role of Loretta in the world premiere of Alberto Franchetti's "Asrael" at Teatro Municipale in Reggio Emilia. In 1891 she sang the role of Eutibide in the premiere of Pietro Platania's "Spartaco" at the Teatro di San Carlo. In 1892 she took the role of Anacoana in the world premiere of Franchetti's "Cristoforo Colombo" at the Teatro
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Despacito


60th Grammy Awards on the Madison Square Garden, becoming the 12th and 13th Latin artists to perform at the Grammy Awards. Luis Fonsi performed it at the 59th Viña del Mar International Song Festival on February 21, 2018. Four days later, he performed an orchestral version with the Teatro Colón Orchestra at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Argentina. On January 30, 2019, Luis Fonsi and American television host Jimmy Fallon performed the song with changed random lyrics on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon". The first two
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with a monument in neighbouring Lavalle Square. With excellent acoustics and modern stage areas, the theatre's interior design features a rich scarlet and gold decor. The cupola contains canvas painted in 1966 by the 20th-century artist Raúl Soldi during renovation work. In recent years, given the political and economic circumstances of Argentina, the Teatro Colón has suffered considerably, but a period of slow recovery began. The theatre underwent massive phased remodelling of both interior and exterior, initially while the house was still open, but production activities ceased
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scene. Many new groups began to form, inspired by the success of "El Nuevo Círculo Dramatico" and another group," La Farándula Panamericana". Some of these groups include: "El Nuevo Teatro Pobre de las América"s, "Teatro Orilla"," Teatro Guazabara", "Teatro Jurutungo", and most notably "Teatro Cuatro", which still exists to this day. Though "El Nuevo Círculo Dramatico" could not continue, Colón went on to form the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater company in 1967 after
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Stefan Lano


3 in 2004, and the National Opera of Slovakia in Bratislava and Teatro Colón. i Archiv der Wiener Staatsoper, (Vienna, Austria) ii Newport Music Festival Archives, 1976 iii Harvard University GSAS; Library of Congress iv German Academic Exchange Service, (Bonn/Berlin, Germany) v Pittsburgh Symphony Society, Pittsburgh PA vi Archivo Historico- Teatro Colón; Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, (Bueno Aires, Argentina) vii Metropolitan Opera, New York, NY viii Orquestre Symphonique de Montréal ix Archiv der sächsischen Staatsoper
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Iva Pacetti


Arrigo Boito's "Mefistofele". Engagements with other important opera houses soon followed, including La Scala, the Teatro Costanzi, the Teatro di San Carlo, the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, the Chicago Civic Opera, the Teatro Colón, the Teatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro, and the Theatro Municipal in São Paulo. From 1930-1933 she was committed to the Royal Opera House in London, portraying such roles as Desdemona in "Otello", Leonora in "La forza del destino", and the title role
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Marcos Madrigal


Malcolm Bilson and especially with his mentor William Grant Naboré. He has performed in recitals, and as a soloist with orchestra, in many of the most renowned concert halls of the world, such as the Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires, the Auditorium Parco della Musica of Rome, the Queen Elizabeth Hall of London, the National Concert Hall of Dublin, the Auditorium Manuel de Falla of Granada, the Bucharest Opera House, the Volkstheater of Vienna, the Teatro Rossini of Pesaro, the Teatro delle Muse of Ancona, the Teatro
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Anna Fitziu


Italy for the next five years, performing in leading roles at such opera houses as the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, the Teatro di San Carlo, the Teatro Massimo, and La Fenice. She also made appearances at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City and the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. In 1915 Fitziu was offered a short term contract at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. She accepted, making her debut with the company as Rosario in the world premiere of Enrique Granados's "Goyescas" on January 28
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Emma Carelli


"Cavalleria rusticana", and Margherita in Boito's "Mefistofele" among other roles. In 1908, Carelli's husband purchased the Teatro Costanzi. His company, Società Teatrale Internazionale, produced the world premiere of Leoncavallo's "Maia" during its second season. Carelli took over the management from her husband in 1912 with a new company (Impresa Teatro Costanzi), while he concentrated on running the South American the touring troupe and the Teatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro and the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. During her 14-year
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Alfredo Kraus


respect for his chosen profession. His first priority was the integrity of his artistic interpretation of a piece, rather than his formidable range and excellent technique. He performed all over the world, including the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Teatro Municipal in Caracas, Teatro Municipal in Santiago, Chile, Teatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro, and the Liceu in Barcelona. In 1991, Kraus was awarded the Prince of Asturias Award. In 1997, his home city of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria opened The Alfredo Kraus Auditorium in his
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Kallen Esperian


Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires; Liú in "Turandot", Desdemona, and Alice Ford in "Falstaff" for the Lyric Opera of Chicago; Desdemona and "Maria Stuarda" at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna; Verdi's "Requiem" at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, "Falstaff" for Los Angeles Opera; Aida and Tosca for the Semperoper in Dresden; "La Traviata" with Opera Memphis, and "Norma" with both Pittsburgh Opera and Opera Memphis; "Manon Lescaut" at the Bavarian State
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Rubén Colón Tarrats


the "Coral Municipal de Ponce" in November 2013, the municipality of Ponce honored him with a commemorative celebration at Teatro La Perla, attended by over 1,000 guests. The commemorative sketch for the occasion was a work by Wichie Torres. On 13 December 2013 Colón Tarrats was recognized by the Municipality of Ponce as one of its illustrious citizens. He is recognized at the Ponce Tricentennial Park for his contributions to music. In 2015, he was also honored by the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. Colón Tarrats has authored nearly 200 chorals
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Teatro Colón


for the 2010 season. The Colón theater operated in two buildings, the first located in the Plaza de Mayo until 1888 and the second located in front of the Plaza Lavalle, which took 20 years to be built until its inauguration in 1908. This land formerly housed the Park Station, the first railway station of the Argentine Republic as head of the Western Railway of Buenos Aires. Throughout its history the main figures of opera, classical music and world ballet have performed in the Colón theater, such as Arturo Toscanini, Nijinski
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Fernando Previtali


to commemorate the composer's 50th death anniversary, and left recordings of "Nabucco", "Ernani", "La battaglia di Legnano", "Il trovatore", and "Don Carlo". He also conducted at all the major opera houses of Italy, and was principal conductor at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires in the 1960s. He was appointed artistic director of the Teatro Regio in Turin in 1970, and later of the Teatro Comunale in Genoa. He conducted the first performances of Dallapiccola's "Volo di
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Vedette (cabaret)


of the 21st century there is a return of the revues in the Avenida Corrientes with figures like Florencia de la V, María Eugenia Ritó, Adabel Guerrero, and Valeria Archimó. The image of the Vedette in Mexico arises from the beginning of the 20th century with the rise of the called "Carpas" and the Revues. Some venues such as Teatro Principal, the Teatro Colón and the Teatro Arbeu were considered as the cathedral of the revues and burlesque in Mexico City. There arise figures like Lupe Vélez, who, before
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Francesco Albanese


as Don Ottavio, and at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, as Fenton. After the war, he began appearing abroad, notably at the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon, the Royal Opera House in London, the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, and the Hungarian Opera House in Budapest. His roles included; Nemorino in "L'elisir d'amore", Jeník in Bedřich Smetana's "La sposa venduta", Ernesto in "Don Pasquale", Ismaele in "Nabucco", Faust in "Faust", Rodolfo
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Gabriela Samper


unrest. In 1958, she joined the "Grupo del Búho", a theater group, and was involved in producing works at the Open Air Theater "La Media Torta", the Teatro Colón and the Teatro Cultural. She directed performances at the Teatro El Burrito in 1960 and three years later was appointed director of the Cultural Theater of the National Park. In the early years of her career, Samper was involved in children's theater and puppetry, which is what she is most remembered for in her home country.
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Franca Mattiucci


di Torino. On the international stage she performed at the Hamburg State Opera, the Hungarian State Opera, the Liceu, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, the Sofia National Opera, the Teatro Colón, the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, the Teatro Real, and the Vienna State Opera among others. Some of the roles Mattiucci performed on stage were Adalgisa in "Norma", Amneris in "Aida", Azucena in "Il trovatore", Beppe in "L'amico Fritz", Charlotte
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Eugenia León


Palacio de Bellas Artes, the Auditorio Nacional, the , the Teatro de la Ciudad, and the Cervantino Festival. In the international arena, Eugenia León has been acclaimed at the Royal Opera House in Oman, the Concert Center Hall in Shanghai, the opera houses of Cairo and Alexandria, the Palace of Marrakesh, the Universal Forum of Culture in Barcelona, the European Parliament in Brussels, the Teatro Colón of Bogotá, the Teatro Oriente in Santiago, the Lincoln Center's Mexico Now Festival, the Central Park Latin Festival,
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Bülent Bezdüz


Silla" which went on tour in England, Ireland and Denmark. Since then, he has sung in London, Dublin, Amsterdam, Cologne, Marseille, Rennes, Nancy, Lausanne, at the Teatro Regio di Parma, Teatro Regio di Torino, Portland, Oregon, Teatro Colón de Buenos Aires, with the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto, the Istanbul State Opera as well as in several other cities in Europe. His repertoire includes Fenton in Verdi's "Falstaff" and Hellenus in Berlioz's "Les Troyens",
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Nabucco


), Teatro Municipale di Piacenza (2004), and Austria's St. Margarethen Opera Festival (2007). Many other companies have also performed it, including San Francisco Opera in 1982, Sarasota Opera in 1995 and 2019, London's Royal Opera House in 1996, Lyric Opera of Chicago in 1997 and 2016, the New National Theatre Tokyo in 1998, Teatro Colón in 2000, Baltimore Opera in 2006, and the Teatro Regio di Parma in 2008 as part of their on-going "Festival Verdi". "Nabucco
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Giuseppe Cremonini


Lescaut"'s La Scala premiere and sang opposite each other in the world premiere of Alberto Franchetti's "Il fior d'Alpe" as Paolo and Maria. In addition to "Manon Lescaut", Cremonini also appeared in operas at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Teatro Costanzi in Rome, and at the Teatro Real in Madrid in 1893 and 1894. His performances included such roles as Turiddu, the Assad in Karl Goldmark's "Die Königin von Saba", and the title role in Wagner's "Lohengrin" among others
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Mercedes Capsir


remain closely associated with throughout her career. In 1916, she made her debut at the Liceo in Barcelona, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the "Teatro Nacional São Carlos" in Lisbon, the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, as well as at the Paris Opéra in 1917. Gilda was her debut role at all these opera houses. Her Italian debut took place in Bologna, as Rosina in "Il barbiere di Siviglia", followed by Elvira in "I puritani", in Venice, opposite Giacomo Lauri-Volpi
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Fanny Anitúa


Maschera" (1923–26 seasons). She sang in other important Italian theaters, including Teatro Rossini in Pesaro and Teatro Regio in Parma, performing "Il barbiere di Siviglia" (1916) and "La Cenerentola" (1920), and very often in South American theaters such as Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, especially as Olga in Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin" (1911) and as Amneris Verdi's "Aida" (1939). She has been considered one of the last true contraltos in the history of modern
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Giacomo Vaghi


" (1936, Carbon). He also worked as a guest artist at numerous opera houses and opera festivals while based in Rome. He made appearances at La Scala (1929–1931), the Teatro Comunale Florence (1929–1930), Arena di Verona Festival (1931), the Teatro Communale di Bologna (1931), and La Fenice (1938) among others. From 1937-1941, Vaghi was a regular performer at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. In 1945 he signed a contract with the Metropolitan Opera, making
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Horacio Lavandera


such as Charles Dutoit, Antonio Pappano, Benjamin Zander, Christopher Wilkins, George Pehlivanian, Anton Nanut, Martin Sieghart, Arthur Fagen, Terje Mikkelsen, and David Murphy. He has played in the Teatro Alla Scala (Milan), Salle Olivier Messiaen-Radio France (Paris), Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires), Herkulesaal (Munich), Wigmore Hall (London), Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Rome), Jordan Hall (Boston), International Piano Festival de La Roque-d'Anthéron, Teatro Municipal (
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Béatrice Uria-Monzon


stages of the world during the same period (1994: Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux and the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires; 1995: Opéra Royal de Wallonie; 1996: Teatro Massimo in Palerme, Teatro Regio; 1997: Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse; 1998: Chorégies d'Orange, Vienna State Opera, Metropolitan Opera of New York). She has also performed the French and Italian repertoires: Massenet: Charlotte in "Werther", Hérodiade (title role), Dulcinée in "Don Quichotte", Chimène in "Le Cid
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Zulma Faiad


seven, she entered the school of the Teatro Colón, where she studied choreography and perfected her acting vocation with the theater. At the beginning of the decade of the 1960, she began as an advertising model and her protagonist participation in a television advertisement of an oil brand gave birth to the affectionate popular nickname of "La Lechuguita" alluding to the characterization that she made. From the Teatro Maipo where she worked, she moved to the Teatro Nacional Cervantes. She worked with comedians Juan Carlos Mesa and Adolfo Stray. She
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Barbara Dever


at the Washington Opera, New National Theater (Tokyo), Michigan Opera Theatre, Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Teatro Massimo (Palermo; Grand Reopening), La Scala, Vienna State Opera, Berlin State Opera, Teatro Colón, Arena di Verona, Virginia Opera, and the Cincinnati Opera. Dever's performances have taken her to Montreal, Mexico City, Macerata, Parma, Reykjavík, San Diego, Antwerp, Puerto Rico, Palermo, Vancouver, Santiago, Berlin, and Buenos Aires. She has performed with the State
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Tito Capobianco


la Enseñanza" and St. Joseph's College. He then qualified for the chorus and opera school of the Teatro Argentino de La Plata where he graduated from being a super to singing baritone roles and also learned stage managing. He made his official debut with "Aida" at the Teatro Argentino de La Plata in 1953, then worked at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. His American debut came in 1962 with a production of "Tosca" at the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company with Birgit Nilsson in the title role. Capobianco was
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Anton Dermota


. As early as 1946 Dermota was honoured for his loyalty with the title of Kammersänger. Anton Dermota sang as a tenor as Alfred in "Die Fledermaus" in the 1950 London Gramophone recording LLP 305. For 20 years, Dermota sang at the Salzburg Festival almost every summer. As guest he gave acclaimed performances at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden London, in Palais Garnier and Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, at Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, in Australia, Czechoslovakia and Hungary. Dermota was
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Enrique Telémaco Susini


Coliseo" during several seasons in the 1920s, and served as technical director of the famous Teatro Colón. After setting in scene the opera Oberon in 1938 at the Teatro Reale in Rome to great critical acclaim, he was called to work as director at the Scala in Milan. Later he also worked at the "Teatro Argentino de La Plata". During his life, Susini authored more than seventy theater plays, receiving the National Culture Award in 1951 for his comedy "En un viejo patio porteño" ("In an
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Ramón Rivero


three weeks Rivero and his show "El Tremendo Hotel" held sell out performances at the Teatro San Juan, Teatro Hispano and the legendary Teatro Puerto Rico. In Cuba, Rivero participated in the movie "Una Gallega en la Habana" with Niní Marshall, however it was in Puerto Rico that in 1953, he played the lead role of "Pepe" in what is possibly the best motion picture ever made in the island, "Los Peloteros" ("The Baseball Players") (with Puerto Rican actress Míriam Colón
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Teatro Tapia


Teatro Alejandro Tapia y Rivera (commonly referred as "Teatro Tapia"), is the oldest free-standing drama stage building located in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It is named after Alejandro Tapia y Rivera (1826-1882), a Puerto Rican poet and dramatist. The theater faces east, across from Plaza de Colón, on Fortaleza Street, and was constructed in 1824. It was designed in the Italian style as a horseshoe shaped opera house with three tiers of boxes. A block south lies a brick-
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Jorge Saade


". The first compact disc of the Paganini Duo "From Paganini to the Andes" was released during their performance at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 2005, the Guayaquil Symphony Orchestra released their first compact disc recording entitled "Música Académica Ecuatoriana", recorded live at the Guayaquil Teatro Centro de Arte on June 30, 2004, featuring Saade as a guest soloist. The second recording with the Guayaquil Symphony Orchestra under the direction of acclaimed conductor and composer Jose Serebrier was done live at the Guayaquil Teatro Centro
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Roberta Knie


Oper Berlin, Nationaltheater Mannheim, Opéra National du Rhin, La Monnaie, Teatro Regio di Parma, Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, the Welsh National Opera, the Royal Swedish Opera, Opéra de Montréal, the Teatro Colón, and the Lyric Opera of Chicago. In 1976, Knie abruptly left a production of "The Ring" after clashes with producer Patrice Chéreau and poor audience reaction to the then-controversial updating of the opera's setting to the Industrial Revolution. She was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 1982
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Giovanni Paroli


February 1907 as Yamadori in "Madama Butterfly" with Geraldine Farrar as Cio-Cio-San and Enrico Caruso as Pinkerton. During his long career, Paroli also worked as a guest artist at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, the Cairo Opera House, the Chicago Grand Opera Company, the Mariinsky Theatre, the Paris Opera, the Royal Opera House in London, the Teatro Colón, the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, and the Teatro Municipal (Rio de Janeiro) among others. He died in his native city at the
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Kate Aldrich


Kate Aldrich (born October 31, 1973, Damariscotta, Maine) is an American mezzo-soprano. She has performed with the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, the Hamburg State Opera, Teatro Regio (Turin), Rossini Opera Festival, Los Angeles Opera, Opéra de Montréal, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf, Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon, National Theatre in Prague, and the New York City Opera. Her roles include Carmen, Antoine Mariotte's Salome, Octavian
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Vincenzo Bettoni


Vincenzo Bettoni (1 July 1881, Melegnano - 4 November 1954, Milan) was an Italian operatic bass who performed internationally from 1902-1950. He was a resident artist at La Scala in Milan from 1926-1940, and afterwards continued to appear periodically as a guest artist at that house through 1950. Other opera houses he sang with during his career included the Liceu, the Royal Opera House in London, the Teatro Colón, the Teatro di San Carlo, the Teatro Regio in Turin, the Vienna State Opera,
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Florence Quivar


sang the mezzo soprano solos under the baton of James Levine. Quivar's other opera credits include performances at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Bavarian State Opera, La Scala, Teatro la Fenice, Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, the Theatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro, Teatro Colón, Royal Opera at Covent Garden, Houston Grand Opera, Seattle Opera, and Los Angeles Opera among others. Her other roles includes Adalgisa in "Norma", the title role in "Carmen", Erda in "Siegfried" and "Das Rheingold"
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Giampaolo Zennaro


note at the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Sferisterio in Macerata, the Opera Festival in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the Festival Puccini in Torre del Lago, the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genova, the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. Zennaro has worked with some of the most well known operatic singers of the 20th century: tenors Mario Del Monaco, Alfredo Kraus, Plácido Domingo, José Carreras, Luciano Pavarotti, baritones Rolando Panerai and Renato Bruson, sopranos Ghena Dimitrova and Montserrat Caballé
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Carlos De Antonis


Carlo De Antonis is an Argentine opera singer. De Antonis was born in Argentina in Tandil in the province of Buenos Aires. He began studying music in Tandil at an early age with prestigious maestros Andres Risso, Bernardo Moroder, and Sofia Galicia. He then moved to Buenos Aires and completed his studies with the maestros Oscar Ruiz and Natalia Biffis. In 1990 to 1991, he joined the chorus of the three most important theaters in South America: Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Teatro Argentino in La Plata, and Teatro Avenida
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Győriványi Ráth György


He himself reconstructed the work from the existing manuscripts, for which work he was granted the Doctor Liberalium Artium title from the University of Pécs. His professional work has been closely connected to the re-discovery of Ernő Dohnányi’s orchestral works, and he conducted Franz Schmidt’s Symphony 4 the first time in Budapest, 75 years after its premiere in Vienna. He is a regular guest conductor in Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, the Hamburg Staatsoper, the Lyric Theater in Chicago, the Teatro la Fenice in Venice, Teatro Regio
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Valeria Lynch


she presented her new show "Valeria Vale" at Teatro Gran Rex, managing to gather more than 15,000 people in 5 functions. In early 2013 she presented at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires as part of the show "Las Elegidas" where accompanied by a symphony orchestra she performed her classic "Piensa en mi By the end of 2013 Valeria is resubmitted at the Teatro Gran Rex in Buenos Aires, with its new show titled "La Elegida" on 9/10/23 and November 24. During the early months of 2014 she toured
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Opera in Latin America


the "verismo" opera "El Negro Miguel" with lyrics by Pedro Blanco Vilariño), Alexis Rago (author of "El Páramo", "Miranda", and "Froilán el Infausto"), and Federico Ruíz (author of the famous opera buffa "Los Martirios de Colón", with a libretto by Aquiles Nazoa). Today, most operatic activity in Venezuela takes place at Teatro Teresa Carreño. Here, operas such as "El Páramo" by Alexis Rago and "Los martirios de Colón" by Federico
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Lola Flores


chapel was installed in the Cultural Center of the Villa (currently Teatro Fernán Gómez) of Madrid, in Plaza de Colón (Colón’s square). In an open and shrouded coffin with a white blanket, all her admirers and friends could come and see her. She was taken to the Cemetery of the Almudena in Madrid where she was buried. It was one of the burials most remembered by the number of people who came; the funeral was broadcast live on television. Fifteen days after her death, on May 31
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Perséphone (Stravinsky)


singing Eumolphe. It was also performed at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires under Stravinsky himself in 1934, and then in Rio de Janeiro. Victoria Ocampo, an important intellectual from Argentina, was present at the premier in Buenos Aires. It was reprised at the Colón in 1995 with China Zorrilla under Pedro Ignacio Calderón. Other choreographed versions have included those of George Balanchine, Kurt Jooss (1955), Frederick Ashton (1961), and Pina Bausch (1965). (Martha Graham's "Persephone" is accompanied by
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Horst Laubenthal


Bayreuth Festival in 1970, as the steersman in "Der fliegende Holländer" and as Kunz Vogelgesang in "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg". He performed as a guest internationally, in 1972 as Belmonte in Mozart's "Die Entführung aus dem Serail" at the Glyndebourne Festival, in 1977 at the Paris Opera as Tamino in his "Die Zauberflöte", in 1987 at the Teatro Regio in Turin as Ottavio, also at the Hamburg State Opera, Bavarian State Opera in Munich, and the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. At
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Wolfgang Neumann


Oslo, Berlin (Deutsche Oper), Lisbon, Barcelona (as Aron in "Moses und Aron"), Dallas, Chile, Monte-Carlo, Bologna, Marseilles, Catania, and Florence. Neumann also appeared at the Teatro Colón, Bayreuth Festival (in "Tannhäuser"), Paris Opéra, the Royal Opera House, and Teatro alla Scala ("Die Frau ohne Schatten", in Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's production, 1986). In 1985, Neumann recorded the role of Jim Mahoney in "Aufstieg
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Anahit Mekhitarian


Theater in Mérida "Festival de Teatro Clasico" (as Paolina in "Poliuto") in Seville and the Teatro Colón in A Coruña (as Desdemona in "Otello"), at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles (as Anush in "Anush"), and the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow (as Norma in "Norma"). She has performed concerts at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Palau de la Música Catalana, Salle Gaveau, St John's, Smith Square, Malmö Concert Hall, Auditorio Nacional de
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Jonas Alber


and Prophetess" at NorrlandsOperan in Sweden. In 2009, he led a new production of Mozart’s "The Abduction from the Seraglio" at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, after which he returned to the Staatstheater Braunschweig for a new staging of Beethoven’s "Fidelio". In 2010, he conducted Richard Wagner’s "Das Rheingold" and "Götterdämmerung" at the Semperoper in Dresden, and Richard Strauss’ "Der Rosenkavalier" at the Teatro Real in Madrid. In 2011, Alber conducted the Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado
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Robert Seppings


Sir Robert Seppings, FRS (11 December 176725 April 1840) was an English naval architect. Seppings was born to Robert and Lydia Seppings at Fakenham, Norfolk, on 11 December 1767 and baptised three days later. In 1782 he was apprenticed in HMNB Devonport, Plymouth. In 1800, when he had risen to be master shipwright assistant in the yard, he invented a device which greatly reduced the time required to repair the lower portions of ships in dry dock when compared with the laborious process of lifting then in vogue.
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Carmen Moral


the Pasdeloup Orchestra (Paris), the National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico, and the Chamber Orchestras of Lausanne and Vienna are among the 80 orchestras that have invited her to serve as a guest conductor. Her concerts in 26 countries of Europe, Asia and the Americas have taken her to such theaters as the Grosser Musikvereinssaal of Vienna, the Kennedy Center of Washington, D.C., the Bolshoi Hall of Moscow Conservatory, the Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires, the Teatro Bellas Artes of Mexico, D.F., the Theater of the Nationalities of
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