Hi, Garry! loving your content! The Teatro Colón is a magnificent display of an era in Argentina. The theater shows a lot of masonry techniques brought by the italian artisan builders. There is a lot of stucco that resembles marble and the columns are plaster. All those intrincate carvings are plaster. The building looks more expensive than its actual materials - it´s a theater after all, not a palace - thanks to the incredible craftmanship applied.
El teatro colon, un hermoso edificio de otra Argentina. como nota de color, mi bisabuelo (uno de esos tanos que le gustaba la opera) fue a la gala inaugural, y la llevó a mi abuela que en esa época debía de tener 8 o 9 años más o menos. 😊
I really enjoyed your video, it is very well done and shows what it takes to put together a play for the Teatro Colon. This is perhaps the most unknown aspect of our theater. Greetings.
Il Teatro Colon di Buenos Aires non ha nulla da invidiare ai grandi teatri come il Teatro alla Scala: il tempio dell'opera milanese. Nemmeno il MET di New York gli è paragonabile per la sua grande storia. Al Colon hanno cantato grandi cantanti come Caruso o Callas, ecc.
También Vaslav Nijinski, Margot Fonteyn, Maia Plisetskaia, Rudolf Nureyev, Mijail Barishnikov, a directores como Arturo Toscanini, Herbert von Karajan entre tantos
Cómo siempre buenos videos Garry. Ya que has vivido en Wilde conoces la zona sur. Te recomiendo visites La Plata, muchas cosas que ver Catedral, Museo, parques, paseo Dardo Rocha, edificios públicos. Y en Gonnet República de los niños. Además no te pierdas conocer la patagonia Bariloche, Villa La Angostura, Dan Martín de los Andrés, Puerto Madryn, El Calafate, El Chaltén, Ushuaia, etc Saludos
Beautiful tour but you missed to show the magnificent ceiling painted by hand by Raul Soldi, one of the greatest painters of Argentina that is 300 square meters, and whose enormous spider of lights can house singers. What a pity, but thank you
Garry, no te preocupes, alquila un traje y ve felíz a ver una ópera. No es de rigurosa etiqueta, hay funciones populares. Muy lindos tus videos, se aprende contigo. ¿Será Turandot la ópera ambientada en China?
Underneath the Colon theater proper theres at least 3 subfloors back in 2012 i was comisioned to construct a vacuum plástic thermoformer for the utility/ costume departament which i did. From what i see now they put the props in this other building.
Two fun facts: 1) This is not the original Teatro Colón, the first one was right in front of Plaza de Mayo. It opened in 1857 and closed in 1888 when it was acquired by the national government to use as the headquarters of our newly founded national bank. The old building continued to be used as the bank headquarters until it was demolished around 1939-1940 and replaced by a new, purpose built building, which is a magnificent piece of architecture on its own. The architect who built the old theater was Charles Henri Pellegrini, the father of President Carlos Pellegrini... the one who founded the Banco Nación. He wasnt president when the state bought the theater, but he was the VP, so i assume he might have had some influence in 'hey lets buy this thing built by my dad to use for our shiny new bank'. 2) The site where the current Teatro Colón sits was originally the site of the first ever railway station of the country - Estación Parque. It opened in 1857 (same as the old theater lol) and was used by the Ferrocarril Oeste, which is the current Sarmiento railway. This section between Parque and Once ran through the streets, like a tram. In the 1880s it was deemed too dangerous due to the growth of the city, so this section was closed and Once was made the new terminal. The Santos Discépolo passage (a relatively famous S-shaped pedestian only street) is the only vestige left of this old section.
What a great combination of two amazing sites. I hope you can attend a performance here sometime. And the costumes and sets! Wow! It was fun to try to guess the operas before you read the signs. I had 30% success rate. Pathetic for someone who majored in music 😂
The workshop used to be at the Teatro Colón itself, I visited it whe I was a teenager. But after some years of bad managment they seem to have moved it to La Boca. I´m just finding out about that through this video, I was not aware of that.
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Hi, Garry! loving your content! The Teatro Colón is a magnificent display of an era in Argentina. The theater shows a lot of masonry techniques brought by the italian artisan builders. There is a lot of stucco that resembles marble and the columns are plaster. All those intrincate carvings are plaster. The building looks more expensive than its actual materials - it´s a theater after all, not a palace - thanks to the incredible craftmanship applied.
Ahh plaster, that makes a lot more sense! Thanks for watching!
El teatro colon, un hermoso edificio de otra Argentina. como nota de color, mi bisabuelo (uno de esos tanos que le gustaba la opera) fue a la gala inaugural, y la llevó a mi abuela que en esa época debía de tener 8 o 9 años más o menos. 😊
Very impressive!
I really enjoyed your video, it is very well done and shows what it takes to put together a play for the Teatro Colon. This is perhaps the most unknown aspect of our theater. Greetings.
Il Teatro Colon di Buenos Aires non ha nulla da invidiare ai grandi teatri come il Teatro alla Scala: il tempio dell'opera milanese. Nemmeno il MET di New York gli è paragonabile per la sua grande storia. Al Colon hanno cantato grandi cantanti come Caruso o Callas, ecc.
@@Delos661 davvero un posto incredibile con una grande storia
También Vaslav Nijinski, Margot Fonteyn, Maia Plisetskaia, Rudolf Nureyev, Mijail Barishnikov, a directores como Arturo Toscanini, Herbert von Karajan entre tantos
Wonderful video!
Muy interesante, muchas gracias!,
Thank you for sharing this.
Did you know the first place for Teatro Colón was the Banco de la Nación Argentina? Right next to Casa Rosada.
@@antinuit very interesting!
Cómo siempre buenos videos Garry. Ya que has vivido en Wilde conoces la zona sur. Te recomiendo visites La Plata, muchas cosas que ver Catedral, Museo, parques, paseo Dardo Rocha, edificios públicos. Y en Gonnet República de los niños.
Además no te pierdas conocer la patagonia Bariloche, Villa La Angostura, Dan Martín de los Andrés, Puerto Madryn, El Calafate, El Chaltén, Ushuaia, etc Saludos
@@fmfari quizas visitaré unos de esos lugares pronto 😉
AWESOME PLACE!!
Beautiful tour but you missed to show the magnificent ceiling painted by hand by Raul Soldi, one of the greatest painters of Argentina that is 300 square meters, and whose enormous spider of lights can house singers. What a pity, but thank you
I was wrong, properly said it was not the ceiling, but the dome of the main hall
Que bueno que puedas mostrarle esto a la gente!!
Garry, no te preocupes, alquila un traje y ve felíz a ver una ópera. No es de rigurosa etiqueta, hay funciones populares. Muy lindos tus videos, se aprende contigo. ¿Será Turandot la ópera ambientada en China?
Muchas gracias para ver! Estoy feliz que lo disfrutaste. Turandot? Interesante, no conozco esa obra. tal vez!
Yes it is Turandot. Puccini. They performed it in May of this year. Fabulous music
Underneath the Colon theater proper theres at least 3 subfloors
back in 2012 i was comisioned to construct a vacuum plástic thermoformer for the utility/ costume departament which i did. From what i see now they put the props in this other building.
@@guillermomaclachlan1072 wow I wish we could have toured down there!
Two fun facts:
1) This is not the original Teatro Colón, the first one was right in front of Plaza de Mayo. It opened in 1857 and closed in 1888 when it was acquired by the national government to use as the headquarters of our newly founded national bank. The old building continued to be used as the bank headquarters until it was demolished around 1939-1940 and replaced by a new, purpose built building, which is a magnificent piece of architecture on its own.
The architect who built the old theater was Charles Henri Pellegrini, the father of President Carlos Pellegrini... the one who founded the Banco Nación. He wasnt president when the state bought the theater, but he was the VP, so i assume he might have had some influence in 'hey lets buy this thing built by my dad to use for our shiny new bank'.
2) The site where the current Teatro Colón sits was originally the site of the first ever railway station of the country - Estación Parque. It opened in 1857 (same as the old theater lol) and was used by the Ferrocarril Oeste, which is the current Sarmiento railway. This section between Parque and Once ran through the streets, like a tram. In the 1880s it was deemed too dangerous due to the growth of the city, so this section was closed and Once was made the new terminal. The Santos Discépolo passage (a relatively famous S-shaped pedestian only street) is the only vestige left of this old section.
@@asyedan5172 amazing info, thank you!
What a great combination of two amazing sites. I hope you can attend a performance here sometime. And the costumes and sets! Wow! It was fun to try to guess the operas before you read the signs. I had 30% success rate. Pathetic for someone who majored in music 😂
@@DCSinger613 😅 better luck next time
The last one is from Turandot
The workshop used to be at the Teatro Colón itself, I visited it whe I was a teenager. But after some years of bad managment they seem to have moved it to La Boca. I´m just finding out about that through this video, I was not aware of that.
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Of course, Bosch was using…something😮😮😮
lol if only there were some opera nerds among your subscribers….
There are a few I'm sure
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