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March 20th, 2011
Due to a conflict between the workers’ union and the management of the theater, the 2011 season at Teatro Colon is suffering cancellations and changes in the original schedule.
The Opera “Le Grand Macabre”, which was going to open the season, will be offered as “open rehearsals” with piano only since the orchestra has refused to participate in the production. Entrance to these performances will be free, and free tickets will have to be picked in advance up according to the schedule below.
All other performances to be confirmed.
Keep checking on this post for updates as news unfold.

OPERA

March 30, April 3, 6, 8
EL GRAN MACABRO (Le Grand Macabre)
Music: György Ligeti
Libretto: György Ligeti and Michael Meschke inspired in La ballade du grand macabre, by Michel de Ghelderode (premiere in Argentina)
Musical direction: Baldur Brönnimann
Production: La Fura dels Baus
Main characters: Chris Merrit, Roderick Earle, Wilbur Pauley, Brian Asawa, Ning Liang, Gustavo De Gennaro, Javier Galan, Susanna Andersonn, Ilse Eerens / Cecilia Layseca, Frances Bourne.

Free tickets (up to 2 per person, subject to availability) have to be picked in advance up according to the following schedule:
For the performance on March 30: From March 28
For April 3: From April 1
For April 6: From April 4
For April 8: From April 6

Ticket office: Monday to Friday 10am to 8pm, Libertad 621

The following performances are subject to confirmation:

May 10, 13, 15, 18, 20, 22
THE MAGIC FLUTE
Music: Wollfgang Amadeus Mozart
Libretto: Emanuel Schikaneder
Musical Direction: Frédéric Chaslin
Stage Direction: Sergio Renán
Main characters: Patrick Henckens / Darío Schmunck, Lyuba Petrova / Laura Belli, Markus Werba / Luciano Garay, Aline Kutan / Fabiola Masino, Reinhard Hagen / Lucas Debevec, Osvaldo Peroni / Gabriel Centeno

June 7, 10, 12, 15, 17, 19
IL TRITTICO
Music: Giacomo Puccini
Inspired in The divine comedy, by Dante Alighieri
Musical direction: Richard Buckley
Stage Direction and lighting: Stefano Poda
Il tabarro
Libretto: Giuseppe Adami, based on La Houppelande, by Didier Gold
Main characters: Juan Pons / Luis Gaeta, Carl Tanner, Amarilli Nizza / Haydée Dabusti, Agnes Zwierko / Alicia Cecotti
Gianni Schicchi
Libretto: Giovacchino Forzano
Main characters: Juan Pons / Luis Gaeta, Darío Schmunck, Beatriz Díaz / Eliana Bayón, Agnes Zwierko / Alicia Cecotti
Suor Angelica
Libretto: Giovacchino Forzano
Main characters: Amarilli Nizza / Virginia Wagner, Agnes Zwierko / Alejandra Malvino, Lucila Ramos Mañé, María Luján
Mirabelli, Eliana Bayón / Marina Silva

July 19, 22, 24, 27, 29, 31
SIMON BOCCANEGRA
Music: Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto: Francesco Maria Piave and Giuseppe Montanelli, revised by Arrigo Boito,
based on the same play by Antonio García Gutiérrez
Musical direction: Stefano Ranzani / Carlos Vieu
Stage Direction: José María Condemi
Main characters: Roberto Frontali / Omar Carrión, Svetla Vassileva / Virginia Wagner, Konstantin Gorny / Ernesto Morillo, Andrew Richards, Fabián Veloz / Gustavo Feulién

August 9, 12, 14, 17, 19
PELLEAS ET MESISANDE
Music: Claude Debussy
Libretto: Maurice Maeterlinck and Claude Debussy, based on the same play by Maurice Maeterlinck
Musical direction: Emmanuell Villaume
Stage Direction: Olivia Fuchs
Main characters: Markus Werba, Anne Sophie Duprels, Marc Barrard, Kurt Rydl, Fabiola Masino, Vera Cirkovic

September 20, 23, 35, 28, 30
LOHENGRIN
Music: Richard Wagner
Libretto: Richard Wagner
Musical direction: Ira Levin
Stage Direction, Set design and lighting: Roberto Oswald
Main characters: Michael Hendrick, Ann Petersen, James Johnson, Janina Beachle

October 18, 21, 26, 30
FEDRA
(World Premiere – Work commissioned by Teatro Colón)
Music: Mario Perusso (Resident composer of Teatro Colón)
Libretto: Marcelo Perusso
Musical direction: Mario Perusso
Stage Direction, Set design and wordrobe: Marcelo Perusso
Main characters: Alejandra Malvino, Marcelo Puente, Leonardo Estévez, Haydée Dabusti, Daniela Tabernig

November 29, December 2, 4, 7, 10, 11
THE MERRY WIDOW
Music: Franz Lehár
Libretto: Víctor Leon and Leo Stein, based on L´attaché d´ambassade, by Henri Meilhac
Musical direction: Gregor Bühl
Main characters: Solveig Kringelborn, Mathias Hausmann / Luciano Garay, Ditte Andersen / Laura Belli

BALLET

April 19, 20, 23, 24
NEOCLASSICAL TRILOGY 

Nuestros Valses
Choreography: Vicente Nebrada
Music: Teresa Carreño
Piano soloist: Leonardo Marconi 

The Buenos Aires Philharmonic Orchestra, directed by Maestro Enrique Arturo Diemecke, will offer a series of 20 concerts on Thursdays at 8:30 pm, starting on April 14, 2011 The invited directors will be: Guillermo Scarabino, Carlos Dourthe, Antoni Wit, Pavel Kogan, Maximiano Valdés, Carlos Vieu, Carlos Bertazza, José Miguel Rodilla, with the participation of the outstanding soloists: Omar Angel Frette, Cuarteto Petrus, Sasha Rozhdestvensky, Saúl Medina, Lucrecia Jancsa, Xavier Inchausti, Carla Filipcic Holm, Vadim Gluzman, Pascal Rogé, Cyprien Katsaris, Joshua Bell, Sergio Tiempo, Muza Rubackyte, Tatiana Vassilieva, Marouan Benabdallah, Horacio Lavandera, Vladimir Feltsman, Claudio Barile, Luis Ascot.
Click here to see the complete 2011 program (in Spanish only)

The Teatro Colón Orchestra will offer concerts one Saturday of every month on May, June, July, October and December.
Click here to see the complete 2011 program (in Spanish only) 

Domingos de Camara (Chamber Sundays): Free series of concerts one Sunday of every month, at 11am, by renowned Argentinian chamber groups at the main concert hall of Teatro Colon.
Free tickets must be picked up 2 hours before every performance. Only 2 tickets per person will be handed, limited to the theater’s capacity.
Click here to see the complete 2011 program (in Spanish only)  

ABONO DEL BICENTENARIO (BICENTENARY CONCERTS): A total of 6 concerts that will get together some of the most resounding figures in the season:

The 2011 Season will come complete with a series of extraordinary concerts, the program by the CETC (Centro de Experimentacion del Teatro Colon), and ISA (Instituto Superior de Arte del Teatro Colon).

Tickets:
Theater’s box office: 
From Monday to Saturday from 10:00 am to 8:00 pm – (no show days).
From Monday to Saturday from 10:00 am to 8:30 pm – (show days).
Sundays from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm.

Or through:
https://www.tuentrada.com/colon/Online/