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| The Great man himself |
Going through my photos, I realised I have not posted anything about the concert.....On the evening of the 24th March, together with around 120,000 other people, I enjoyed a concert by one of the biggest names in opera – Spanish tenor Plácido Domingo. The concert was set up on a stage next to the Obelisk on Avenida 9 de Julio. The maestro was scheduled to perform in the grand Teatro Colon, but because of ongoing disputes between the theatre workers’ union and the Teatro Colón management the theatre is temporarily out of action. So the venue of the concert was moved to outdoors.
I went down early to get a good spot and was delighted to find an entrepreneurial woman selling little plastic stool for 20 pesos. I bought a chair and then went and found a great spot with a good view of the stage. The crowds just kept rolling in.... the early arrivals were treated to a sound check by Domingo himself along with his singing colleague, Argentine soprano Virginia Tola.
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| The stage in Avenida 9 Julio |
The concert started at 8pm and went on until 11pm. It was totally awesome.
The programme included arias, duets, operettas, tangos and pop songs. Domingo was accompanied by 160 musicians from the Colón orchestra and choir as well as the Buenos Aires Philharmonic and the National Symphony Orchestra.
During the concert, Domingo said he hoped the two parties could soon reach an agreement and referred to the orchestra and choir as the real pillars of the theatre and said he hoped to return next year to sing a full opera in the Colón.
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| The 120,000 crowd enjoying the concert |
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