In less than a month, along with the celebration of the Argentine Bicentenary, the Colón Theater will reopen. The largest and most important coliseum of our city will open -after four years of a complete refurbishment- next May 24th. The original date for reopening was May 25th (the very day of the Bicentenary) but the authorities didn’t want it to superimpose with the official celebration that will take place on 9 de Julio Avenue, right in front of the theater.The theater’s refurbishment (built on 1908) preserved its acoustics, the most important emblem of the Colón, and the one that places it among the best theaters of the world along with La Scala of Milan and the Paris Opera. The chosen play for its reopening is one of the most played around the world and a public favorite: Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème.
The changes inside the theater include: luminaries, French stained-glass windows, oak floors and teselas (small mosaics), the bronze overlays and ornaments, the stucco walls and the marouflages –canvas paintings attached to the ceiling and walls- of the Foyer (halls and stairs before the main room)- and the Golden Room. The update also renewed the water and electricity networks and the air conditioning and heating systems.The biggest challenge was to refurbish the main room (with capacity for 2,478 people attendance) preserving the acoustics, as we mentioned. In order to achieve this, sound engineers performed approximately 20 acoustic measures before, during and after the process to be sure that there was no variation at all in the historical parameters. The Colón Theater is back and accompanies with its greatness the celebration of the 200 years of the Argentine Republic.
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