Colón Theater
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opera house in Buenos Aires
Key facts
- Type
- Theatre
- Architectural style
- Eclectic
- Location
- Buenos Aires , Argentina , Tucumán 1171
- Opened
- 25 May 1908 ; 118 years ago ( 1908-05-25 )
- Renovated
- 2001–2010
- Owner
- City of Buenos Aires
- Height
- 28 metres
- Diameter
- 58 metres
- Structural system
- Concrete
- Architects
- Francesco Tamburini , Julio Dormal , Vittorio Meano
- Seating capacity
- 2,478
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Archive
- Founded
- 1889
- Location
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Also known as
- TC
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.501809.5 · ISNI 0000 0001 2348 3189
Described at
Teatros de Buenos Aires del Siglo XVII al XXI: 40 1908 Colon (nuevo)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Teatro Colón (English: Colón Theatre) is a historic opera house in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is considered one of the ten best opera houses in the world by National Geographic. According to a survey carried out by the acoustics expert Leo Beranek among leading international opera and orchestra directors, the Teatro Colón has the room with the best acoustics for opera and the second best for concerts in the world.
The present Colón replaced an original theatre which opened in 1857. Towards the end of the century, it became clear that a new theatre was needed, and after a 20-year process, the present theatre opened on 25 May 1908, with Giuseppe Verdi's Aïda.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Colón Theater” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.