The former director of the Teatro Colón Juan Carlos Montero has died at the age of 85, the top “Argentine Colosseum” reported today in a statement. Montero, who was also a librarian, journalist and music critic, directed the Colón for two periods, between 1987 and 1989 and between 1999 and 2000.
His musical training was given by teachers such as Adolfo Brandl, Fedora Aberastury, Roberto Caamaño, Teodoro Fuchs and Juan José Castro.
Librarian graduated from the University of Buenos Aires, he was director of the popular public libraries (1979-1985) and director of the Library of the Faculty of Law.
In the journalistic field he worked as a music critic for the newspaper The nationhe also collaborated on various magazines dedicated to music and was director of Radio Nacional Clásica, as well as host of various radio programs among which stands out Approach to the work AND Are you afraid of opera?.
Mayor Enrique Olivera with Juan Carlos Montero. It was Montero’s second stint at Colón.He was also a member of the jury at the Konex Awards in 1989 and 1999.
He was born in 1938. He initially studied Philosophy and Literature at UBA and graduated as a librarian, a specialty that helped him manage the Municipal Libraries and the Library of the Faculty of Law at UBA.
At a very young age he began to frequent the Colón Theater frequently, where he went with his father, the architect Juan Pedro Montero, general director of the Colón from 1958 to 1967, the year in which he was fired for not having accepted the censorship imposed by the dictatorship of Juan Carlos Onganía carried on the work Bomarzoby Alberto Ginastera and Manuel Mujica Láinez.
With Teresa Anchorena, while the recovery plan of the Teatro Colón was being designed.“With deep regret, the Teatro Colón bids farewell to Juan Carlos Montero, librarian, journalist and music critic, who was director of the Teatro Colón for two periods, between 1987 and 1989 and between 1999 and 2000”, echoed the Hall Theater print.
His arrival at Colón in 1999 was not easy. According to the newspaper The nation had to deal with a strike which resulted in the cancellation of Bruno Gelber’s first concert of the season. “In that period, concerned with excellent programming, he appointed the composer Gerardo Gandini as director of the Philharmonic, as well as of the Experimentation Center.”
Again according to the same media, it should have overcome the economic crisis announced in 2001, but it understood Sonatas and interludes by John Cage, the Studies for pianoby György Ligeti; Mahagonny Songspielby Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht; The cunning little foxby Janacek; Joan of Arc on the stakeby Honegger, e Tristan and Isolde, by Wagner. The Mozarteum contributed Daniel Barenboim and the Wagneriana to Claudio Abbado, who performed in the main hall.
Montero announced the performances of the great conductor Franz-Paul Decker, the pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, the violinist Chantal Julliet, the cellist Mischa Maisky, the pianist Nelson Goerner and voices such as Krasimira Stoyanova, Galina Gorchakova, Gegam Grigorian, Gregory Kunde, David Pittsinger, Eva Jenis, Susan Bullock and Marcus Haddock, among others.
Even the radio owes its cycle Approach to the workaired for three decades on Nacional Clásica and preceded his appointment as director of that station.
Source: Clarin
