The Teatro Colón will launch its 2023 season with Resurrection, Symphony No. 2 by Gustav Mahler which will serve as a tribute to the 40th anniversary of the return to democracy which will be celebrated on 10 December this year.

The famous piece by the Austrian composer will be conducted by Charles Dutoit conducts the Buenos Aires Philharmonic Orchestra, accompanied by the soprano Jaquelina Livieri and the mezzo-soprano Guadalupe Barrientos. THE the staging will be curated by Romeo Castellucci in co-production with the Aix-en-Provence Festival.

will be three performances and will take place from 7 to 9 March from 8.30 pm in the Ocra Pavilion of La Rural, as part of the Columbus in the City cycle.

The director of the Teatro Colón, Jorge Telerman, celebrated the making of a show that he considered “impressive, with a remarkable dramatic setting which stages the eternal struggle between good and evil but, above all, which glimpses how life usually prevails, even in the midst of devastation”.

“A resurrection. This is the name of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, transformed into a theatrical event by Romeo Castellucci, one of the most important masters of the current scene, and conducted by a myth: Charles Dutoit. Opening of the season and tribute to the Teatro Columbus 40 years after the resumption of democracy in our country,” said Telerman.

Castellucci, curator of the staging, creates a show that “saves the function of art to speak of what surrounds it. To take charge of pain and hope. Of rebirth”.

The big names of the 2023 season

With a total of eleven titles (two will be released in concert version), the opera season will open with Fausto on 14 March. Gounod’s opera will have six performances, staged by Jan Latham-Koenig and staged by Stefano Poda, an Italian director who amazed this year with his interpretation of Nabucco.

The cast will be led by Liparit Avetisyan, Ekaterina Petrova, Vinicius Atique, Florencia Machado and Adriana Mastrángelo.

Mozart, always present. On May 7 (seven performances) The Magic Flute by Mozart will be staged with Joel Prieto together with Verónica Cangemi, Peter Kellner, María Savastano and Anna Siminska in the role of the queen of the night, directed by Marcelo Ayub and the particular régie de Barrie Kosky, with his recreation of the silent film world.

Il Trovatore and Anna Bolena, the first directed by Giacomo Sagripanti and the second by Maurizio Benini, will be staged in June and August.

The sixth title, The Merry Widow, by Franz Lehár, will be staged on 26 September (six performances), directed by Jan Latham-Koenig, directed by Damiano Michieletto and a cast composed by Carla Filipcic Hom, Rafael Fingerlos, Franz Hawlata, Ruth Iniesta and Galeano Salas.

Sun & Sea by Lina Lapelytė and Einstein on the Beach by Philip Glass and Bob Wilson will go on March 16 and June 13 respectively in the concurrent subscription.

Own productions. La carrera del libertino, by Igor Stravinsky, will have four performances, will be staged on July 18, directed by Charles Dutoit and a theatrical version by Alfredo Arias, responsible for the aforementioned 2001 staging.

The cast will be led by Blen Bliss (Tom Rakewell), Christopher Purves, Giulia Semenzato, Patricia Bardon, Hernán Iturralde, Darío Schmunck and Alejandro Spies.

In September Il Turco in Italia will be presented, an opera by Rossini, directed by Jordi Bernàcer and staged by Pablo Maritano, with Erwin Schrott and Irina Lungo among the protagonists.

Another local production is Madama Butterfly, which will be staged on November 7 (nine performances), Puccini’s opera will be alternately directed by Jan Latham-Koenig and Carlos Vieu, directed by Livia Sabag, and a cast led by Elena Stikhina, Riccardo Massi, Guadalupe Barrientos and Leonardo Neiva.

Finally, La ciudad ausente, by Gerardo Gandini, the last title of the season, in two performances starting from 5 December, with the musical direction of Christian Baldini and the theatrical direction of Valentina Carrasco. The cast will be led by Oriana Favaro, Sebastián Sorarrain and Alejandro Spies.

The activity of the orchestras. The Chamber Opera will offer four titles, two by Donizetti, The bell and Viva la Mamma! Who says yes (Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht) Who says no (Martín Matalón and Bertolt Brecht) and Humanity and Lucifer, by Alessandro Scarlatti.

The two orchestras of the Colón will also each have their own season (20 concerts for the Philharmonic; and 2, the Estable) to which guest conductors and performers will be added.

Philharmonic subscription includes, among others, mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča (June 24), pianists Maria João Pires (Mozart Concerto No. 20, October 14), Sergei Babayan (Prokofiev Concerto No. 2, September 8) and Paul Lewis (Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4, Oct. 15), Honegger’s Joan of Arc at the Burning Stake with Charles Dutoit and Annie Dutoit (Dec. 10), and violinist Maxim Vengerov (Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto in D major , December 20).

The Academic Orchestra of the Teatro Colón will also have its subscription, it will work with conductors specialized in various repertoires, including Surrogate Cities, by Heiner Goebbels and Alice in Wonderland, by Marta Lambertini.

The Great International Performers cycle will open with the tenor Vittorio Grigolo, with the participation of the soprano Sonya Yoncheva, the pianists Maria João Pires and András Schiff, and will close with the cellists Mario Brunello & Giovanni Sollima.

Martha Argerich. Towards the last days of July the Martha Argerich Festival will return with Charles Dutoit, Annie Dutoit-Argerich, Nelson Goerner, Sewrgei Nakariakov, among other guests (programs are not confirmed).

Ten years after the death of Gerardo Gandini, he will be honored throughout the season, including the opera, the Buenos Aires Philharmonic, the Experimentation Center and special concerts, such as the one presented by Fito Páez.

The titles of the Centro di Sperimentazione include, among other proposals, #Cibor6, by the choreographer Florencia Gleizer; Gandini on stage; The end of the world works in augmented reality, by Patricia Martínez; and the chamber opera Felicidad, by Marcos Franciosi.

The Contemporary Colón will also add Ensemble Modern (Germany) with works by Unsuk Chin, Rebecca Saunders and Georges Aperghis. Also Le Voci Sottovetro, by Salvatore Sciarrino, and the local premiere of 100 Cymbals, by Ryoji Ikeda.

Among the novelties of the season the Rachmaninov Festival, where his concerts for piano and orchestra will be developed in a complete way, with Nelson Goerner as soloist and the Philharmonic Orchestra and under the direction of Srba Dinić; and a cycle of Baroque music, with the presence of Cappella Gabetta Consort, Vivica Genaux & Bruno de Sá and Cappella Mediterranea.

Tribute to Luis Alberto Spinetta. As part of an extraordinary concert, “Flaco” will be remembered after the fiftieth anniversary of the release of Artaud, one of the most emblematic records of Argentine rock.

Colón for boys continues to add proposals with Frayed Songs, Concert for boys on melodies by Erik Satie and during the winter holidays will present two shows set in the missionary jungle, which propose to rediscover their stories and legends through the Baroque music of the time.

As for the Ballet, 41 shows will be performed throughout the year, with titles such as The Taming of the Shrew, The Nutcracker and Swan Lake and the presence of renowned dancers such as Marianela Núñez (the Argentine star of the Royal Ballet of London) , the Russian Natalia Osipova and the Italian Roberto Bolle.