On Friday, August 14th, 8.30 pm, the Buenos Aires Philharmonic Orchestra, with the direction of Enrique Arturo Diemecke and the participation of mezzo soprano Virginia Correa Dupuy as soloist, will present a program consisting of a post-romantic poem by Richard Strauss, and two works by XX century Argentine composers: a symphony by Alberto Ginastera, in the 90th anniversary of his birth, and a work by Osvaldo Golijov, who has an outstanding international career.
The concert will start with the "Three Songs" by Golijov, based on poems written by women: "Lullaby", by Sally Potter; "Lúa descolorida", by Rosalía Castro; and "How slow the wind" based on two short poems by Emily Dickinson. Mezzo soprano Virginia Correa Dupuy will be the soloist in this work.
The first part of the concert will end with "Variaciones Concertantes", by Alberto Ginastera.
The second part will be dedicated to Richard Strauss' symphonic poem "A hero's life", Op. 40, the biography of the same Richard Strauss, premiered in 1899.

Location: Teatro Opera. Avenida Corrientes 860.
Tickets from AR $ 26 to AR $ 150, on sale at Teatro Colon's ticket office: Tucuman 1171, Monday to Friday 9 am to 5 pm.
The day of the performance tickets can only be aquired in cash at Teatro Opera, from 5 pm.

The monument dedicated to General José de San Martín, located in Plaza San Martín in Retiro neighborhood, was inaugurated in 1862, being the first equestrian monument in Buenos Aires at the time. It was the work of French sculptor Louis Joseph Daumas, who designed it in the Napoleonic style (the figure of San Martín pointing at the road to freedom with his right arm), and it became a model for other similar monuments in squares all over the country.





This is the city´s most important monument, and, according to the protocol, all foreign dignataries visiting Buenos Aires must pay a visit and deposit a wreath at its feet.

General José de San Martín is the father of the Argentine Nation, who set Argentina, Chile and Peru free from the Spanish rule. The spot that nowadays the monument occupies was where the headquarters of his regiment Granaderos a Caballo (cavalry men) were found. In 1910, for the celebration of the centennial of the Argentine independence, the monument was moved from its original position, and a marble basement with allegoric groups by German sculptor Gustav Eberlein was added to the original bronze statue.

A similar monument was commissioned to the same sculptor for Santiago de Chile, that´s why both monuments are very similar. And there´s a smaller size replica of this monument in the Central Park, in New York.

Among the events for the celebration of its 100 years of existence, Teatro Colón has inaugurated a historical and artistic exhibition, destined to showcasing the countless technical elements from props, scenography, scale models, costumes, wigs and shoes, used for the performances over the years.

The opening hours of the exhibition are Monday to Friday, 10 am to 4 pm. Entrance on Teatro Colon's Carriage Passage (Pasaje de los Carruajes), Tucumán 1171.
Entrance: AR $ 10

Another exhibition, "El Colón Fuera del Colón" (The Colon outside the Colon), featured 70 photographs of the centenary building, by Arnaldo Colombaroli, as well as historical costume elements.
This exhibition, with fee entrance, took place at the "Leopoldo Lugones" and "Juan L. Ortiz" rooms of the National Library, Agüero 2502, until Sunday, June 29th.

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The National Museum of Fine Arts has reopened to the public, after 70 years, the rooms for the Guerrico Collection, which include ivory pieces, vases, silver pieces, and a group of European sculptures and paintings from the 19th century, which from now on are an integral part of the permanent collection of the museum

Considered as the first Argentine collector, Manuel José de Guerrico (1800-1876) started to build his art collection at his home in Paris, which he brought to Argentina in 1848. It was later enriched by his son José Prudencio (1837-102), who donated 22 pieces with the purpose of contributing to the creation of the National Museum of Fine Arts in 1859. In 1938 the whole of the collection, that is now on exhibition, was donated to the museum by the descendants of both collectors. It was composed of 627 pieces: paintings, sculptures, miniatures, porcelains, boxes, fans, lacquers, ivories, crystals, wood carvings, silver pieces. On that year the collection was in exhibition for a while and then put away in the deposit. Today the pieces of this collection are exhibited again in a room especially built to recreate the way in which art collections were displayed at the end of the 19th century, with dim lights and dark walls.





Some of the outstanding pieces of the collection are: works from the Barbizon School; "The sacrifice of Melquisedec"; scenes from the Flemish genre; religious Italian and Spanish paintings; "Monk praying", by Francisco Zurbarán; "Diana Surprised" (picture), by Joseph Lefebvre; "The murder of Dr Manuel Vicente Mazza", by Prilidiano Pueyrredón, "Portrait of André Gil" and "Rocks", by Gustave Courbet; "Ville d`Avray", by Camille Corot, among others. There are also some works from previous centuries, like "Hebrews picking up Manna in the desert", by Giovanni Tiépolo (1692-1769).

Among the sculptures, a dozen of anonymous bronzes from the 17th and 18th centuries; some pieces by artists like Gustave Doré and Antonio Tantardini; and the work "La defense" by Auguste Rodin, along with Japanese carvings, or silver Argentine "mates" from the colonial times.