Hairspray, the award winning Broadway musical, opens in Buenos Aires on July 16th, at Teatro Astral.
Enrique Pinti, the great Argentine actor who starred on the Argentine version of The Producers, will perform the leading role of this musical comedy of John Waters. He will be Edna, the protective mother of a "big girl with a big hair and even bigger heart", whose only passion is to dance. The play takes place in the complicated context of the racial fights in Baltimore in 1962.

The role of Tracy Turnblad will be played by Vanesa Paz Butera, who was the winner of the reality show "Yo quiero ser la protagonista de Hairspray" (I want to be the protagonist of Hairspray). The play is in Spanish with a local adaptation.

Location: Teatro Astral. Avenida Corrientes 1639

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.

www.teatrocolon.org.ar