The Teatro Colon of Buenos Aires presentes its program for the 2011 Season.

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

May 15, 18, 20, 21, 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 10, 11, 12, 15, 17
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, 25, 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.

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. 

Domingos de Camara (Chamber Sundays): Series of FREE 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 the previous Saturday and up to 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.

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/

An exhibit of 137 original pictures by the great French photographer Robert Doisneau is taking place at Centro Cultural Recoleta of Buenos Aires, curated by her friend Agnès de Gouvion Saint-Cyr.

The exhibition, called "Simply Doisneau" will be open until June 26th, 2011, and presents a wide spectrum of his works, divided into different thematic axes, like "War and liberation", "Paris at Night", or "Daily life in the suburbs".

The original of one of the most famous pictures of the artist, “Baiser de l’Hotel de Ville” (photo), from 1950, is also on exhibition.

At the same time, 30 of his pictures dedicated to children in Paris and its suburbs, their games and toys, will be exhibited at the Museo de los Niños (Children's Museum) at Abasto Shopping mall, with the name "Les doigts pleins d’encre" (Fingers full of ink), from May 17th to July 5th, 2011.

Centro Cultural Recoleta: Junin 1930 - Sala Cronopios

Monday to Friday: 2:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays: 10:00am to 9:00pm

Free entrance

Museo de los Niños - Abasto Shopping Mall: Av. Corrientes 3247, level 2

Tuesday to Sunday: 1:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Free entrance

A giant Tower of Babel made with 30,000 books, created by renowned Argentine pop artists Marta Minujin, will be inaugurated on Wednesday, May 11th, 2011, at Plaza San Martin.

This work, one of the main activities of the celebration of the nomination of Buenos Aires as World Book Capital 2011, consists of a spiral metallic structure, 28 meters high, covered by 30,000 books in different languages, that have been donated by individuals from the city of Buenos Aires, and embassies, delegations and associations from Germany, Saudi Arabia, Austria, Azerbaiyán, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, South Korea, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Denmark, Ecuador, United States, Slovenia, Spain, France, Philipines, Finland, Greece, Holland, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Mexico, Vasque Country, Pakistan, Perú, Poland, Czek Republic, Russia, Great Britain, Siria, South Africa, Switzerland, Taiwan, Uruguay, Xunta de Galicia, and a delegation from Catalunya.

Visitors will be invited to climb the 7 floors of the Tower in groups of 100 people, while listening to a soundtrack created by Marta Minujin, based on the word "book" pronounced in all languages. The base of the Tower is made up of literature, geography and history books from around the world. The first and second levels are dedicated to American works, the third and fourth to Europe, and fifth and sixth to Asia.
On June 28th, the last day of the exhibition, visitors will be able to pick up a book of their choice and take it home. The rest will make up the first multi-lingual library in Buenos Aires.

Location: Plaza San Martin, Av. Santa Fe and Maipu
Dates: May 11th to June 28th, 2011
Opening hours: 10am to 10pm
Free entrance

Argentina will be hosting Kazakhstan for the Quarterfinals of the Davis Cup 2011 at the Estadio Parque Roca in Buenos Aires on July 7, 8, and 9, 2011.
Argentina are playing in the World Group quarterfinals for the tenth straight year, which is the best ongoing run of any nation in Davis Cup.
Argentina and Kazakhstan are meeting for the first time.

The dates and times of the matches are: Thursday 7th, 10:00 am; Friday 8th, 11:00 am, Saturday 9th, 10:00 am.

Team nominations:
Argentina: Juan Martín del Potro, Juan Ignacio Chela, Juan Monaco, Eduardo Shwank
Kazakhstan: Andrey Golubev, Mikhail Kukushkin, Yuriy Schukin, Evgeny Korolev

Location: Estadio Parque Roca. Av. Roca y Escalada, Buenos Aires.
Tickets are on sale at Ticketek Argentina website.
More information: Davis Cup official website.