As part of the events that will take place during this year to celebrate the four decades of the return of democracy in Argentina, the Teatro Colón will present in early March a Gustav Mahler classic that resigns itself with global echoes. It’s about yours Symphony no. 2 in C minorknown as Resurrection.

The version will be in the frame of the immense Ocher Pavilion of La Rural, with the Italian Romeo Castellucci, under the direction of Charles Dutoit. In total there will be six performances and will be held from 7 to 12 March from 8.30 pm in the Ocra Pavilion of La Rural, as part of the Columbus in the City cycle.

The functions are part of “Divina Italia”, a collaboration between the Colón with the Italian Embassy in Argentina and the Italian Cultural Institute in Buenos Aires.

The director of the setting

Romeo Castelluccio will take care of the staging, in co-production with the Aix-en-Provence Festival. Born in Cesena in 1960. He studied painting and scenography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. He has directed productions of which he is the author, director, set designer, lighting designer and costume designer. He is known as a playwright who aspires to total art. And he has written several theoretical essays on directing, based on his own experience.

His work suggests dramatic options where literature is not essential, which makes theater a plastic, complex and visual art. In 2005 he was appointed Director of the Theater section of the Venice Biennale and in 2008 he was appointed Associate Artist by the Artistic Direction of the Avignon Festival for its sixty-second edition.

His productions are presented and produced by international stages, theatres, operas and international festivals. For the Salzburg Festival, he directed and designed Salome at the Felsenreitschule in 2018 e Don Giovanni in 2021. In the same year he creates the installation Pavane for Prometheus for the Beethoven Festival. You received the Prix Europa in 1996 for New Theatrical Reality. And in 2002 he was appointed Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the Minister of Culture of the French Republic.

In 2013 the Venice Biennale awarded him the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. In 2014 the Alma Mater Studiorum of the University of Bologna awarded him the title of Doctor Honoris Causa in the disciplines of music and theater. In 2014 the Opernwelt magazine named him best opera director and in 2017 his production Jeanne au bucher won the award for best production.

The conductor

charles dutoit he will conduct the Buenos Aires Philharmonic Orchestra, accompanied by the soprano Jaquelina Livieri and the mezzo-soprano Guadalupe Barrientos.

​​Throughout his career, Dutoit has received two of the most prestigious honors in the music world: the 2017 Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal – making him the 103rd recipient since the medal’s founding in 1870 to mark the centenary of by Beethoven – and, in 2022, the prize A life in music of the Teatro La Fenice in Venice.

He was music director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra for 25 years, of the Orchester National de France from 1991 to 2001 and of the NHK Tokyo Symphony from 1996 to 2003, of which he is currently conductor emeritus.

He was Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the London Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London between 2009 and 2018 and was Principal Guest Conductor of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic.

Following a 32-year artistic collaboration with the Philadelphia Orchestra and more than 700 concerts, Dutoit has performed each season with the orchestras of Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles, as well as being a regular guest on the stages of London, Berlin, Paris, Munich, Moscow, Sydney, Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Tokyo. In addition, he has toured 34 times in China.

His more than 200 recordings have garnered numerous awards and accolades, including two Grammys.

In his youth he was invited by Herbert von Karajan to conduct the Vienna State Opera. Since then he has conducted at Covent Garden in London, the Metropolitan in New York, the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, the Rome Opera and the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires.

In 2014 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Classical Music Awards and in 2017 the gold medal from the city of Lausanne, his hometown. He has traveled to 196 countries.

More details

As anticipated by the director of the Teatro Colón, Jorge Telemanthe show will be “massive, with remarkable dramatic staging that enacts the eternal struggle between good and evil but, more importantly, that glimpses how life usually prevails, even amid devastation.”

“The setting saves the function of art to talk about what surrounds it. To take charge of pain and hope. Of rebirth”, he added.

Telerman saw this performance at the Aix-en-Provence festival in August last year, and ever since imagined it would be ideal to start this new season of the Teatro Colón. He said that the setting requires unconventional elements and movements.

In the exhibition video uploaded by French Art Channel, Castellucci clarifies that the exhibition was conceived a year before the war broke out in Ukraine, so it should not be seen as a direct allusion to a specific war but to any one of the many humanitarian tragedies that the world has endured and endures.