My Buenos Aires Travel Guide

The prestigious TEATRO COLON OF BUENOS AIRES, one of the most important Opera Houses in the world, has announced the program for its 2025 SEASON.

The opening and closing of the Philharmonic Orchestra season will be with open air concerts, starting on March 8th at Puente de la Mujer.

OPERA

The 2025 Opera season, directed by Andrés Rodríguez, will feature seven titles. It will start on March 9th with Verdi’s Aida, in Roberto Oswald’s historic 1996 staging.

Il Trittico (Il Tabarro / Suor Angelica / Gianni Schicchi) by Puccini, in a production by the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, will go up in May with stage direction by Pier Francesco and Musical direction by Beatrice Venezi.
Billy Budd by Benjamin Britten promises to be one of the most resonant titles of the season. This is an Argentine premiere, produced by Teatro Colón, with Marcelo Lombardero in charge of the stage direction. It will be presented in July, with musical direction by Erik Nielsen.

Werther is also a new production at the Theatre. Jules Massenet's play will be directed by Rubén Szuchmacher and musically by Ramón Tebar (August/September).

In September, Vincenzo Bellini's I Puritani will be performed in concert version , with musical direction by Maurizio Benini.

After 26 years, Salomé returns to Teatro Colón with its own production. The Richard Strauss opera will be directed by Philippe Auguin and directed by Bárbara Lluch.

La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi will close the season in November, with a stage set by Emilio Sagi and musical direction by Daniel Oren.

BALLET

The Teatro Colón Ballet, under the direction of Julio Bocca, will present five titles in 2025. The season will open in April with Bizet’s Carmen, choreographed by Marcia Haydée, followed by a mixed program (Paquita, Por vos muero, and Chacona). Other highlights include Minkus’ Don Quixote with choreography by Silvia Bazilis and Raúl Candal, Tchaikovsky’s Onegin by John Cranko, and a season finale with The Nutcracker, choreographed by Silvia Bazilis.
In August, an International Gala celebrating the Ballet’s 100th anniversary will feature prominent guest artists.

CONCERTS

The Buenos Aires Philharmonic Orchestra (OFBA) will present its traditional concert series with 18 concerts in 2025. This season features distinguished international soloists and conductors, including Baldur Brönimann, Khaki Solomnishvili, Maurizio Benini, Tito Ceccherini, Srba Dinic, Perry So, James Judd, and the orchestra’s new principal conductor, Zoe Zeniodi.
Verónica Cangemi will lead the first Latin American Opera Studio, a program designed to foster the training of young opera artists and launch their international careers.

The full 2025 Season's program (in Spanish only) can be downloaded through this link.

TICKETS:

Individual tickets for all the 2025 performances on sale through the theater's website, or at the box office: Tucuman 1171, every day from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm (except May 1st, December 24, 25, 31, and January 1st).

For more information and tickets, visit Teatro Colón official website.

The splendid specimen in the photo above, is one of the most famous trees in Buenos Aires, popularly known as the "Lapacho de Ezcurra". It is a "lapacho rosado" (Tabebuia impetiginosa), a tree native from the North-West of Argentina, that was planted many years ago by landscape artist Martin Ezcurra in the corner of Ave. Figueroa Alcorta and Mariscal Castilla, in Palermo Chico, and by the end of September every year punctually announces the arrival of Spring with an explosion of pink flowers:

The Lapacho on Figueroa Alcorta Ave above is the most spectacular of all, but there are many other specimens of lapachos scattered around Buenos Aires, like the ones below:

This wonderful spectacle only lasts for a few days, so those who are in Buenos Aires at the end of September / beginning of October will be very lucky to witness it.

The annual Architecture and Urban Planning Festival Open House Buenos Aires, will take place this year on Saturday, October 11th and Sunday, October 12th, 2025. An open house weekend at those buildings that cause admiration and curiosity. Buenos Aires was the first Latin American city to adopt the Open House concept in 2013.

Open House offers the opportunity to enter for free and explore those private or public places that are normally closed to the general public, with the help of volunteers who generously give their time to accompany and comment on the tours. This year more than 140 buildings selected for their architectural heritage and cultural value and which usually can not be accessed freely will be open to the public.

Only with some exceptions, most of the buildings this year do not require previous registration to visit, but in order to secure entrance it is recommend to arrive as early as possible and as much in advance before the closing time. An ID will be requested without exception in order to enter the buildings on the day of the event.

There are some additional free activities during the weekend, like bike tours, Open Foto and City Walks.

For more information visit Open House Buenos Aires website (in Spanish only).

The traditional Livestock and Agriculture Exhibition ("La Rural"), held every year in Buenos Aires for over a century, is one of the most important of its kind worldwide, bringing together more than a million visitors among producers, tourists and general public.

The 2025 edition will take place from July 17th through July 27th. More than 4500 animal exhibitors and 400 commercial brands will be showing their products: laboratories, leather goods, banks, automotive industries, farm machinery, and providers of services and goods for the agricultural industry.

Visitors will have the opportunity to attend the many activities that take place every day during the Fair, such as:

° Cattle and equine competitions
° Cattle and equine auctions
° Cattle and horse breed exhibitions
° Traditional folk costumes contests
° Rein skills
° Polo exhibitions
° Indoor Pato (Horseball) exhibition
° Show jumping competitions
° Carriage exhibitions
° Military bands
° Farm machinery exhibition
° Live music shows
° Activities and workshops for kids

As well as exhibitions of all kinds of farm animals, sale of Argentine crafts, folk shows, and tastings of traditional products at the exhibition´s pavilions.