In María de Buenos Aires, Astor Piazzolla’s nuevo tango style merges with Horacio Ferrer’s surreal libretto to create an operetta like few others. Fifty years after its premiere in Buenos Aires, Alamo ...
A couple dancing the tango, a person playing the bandoneon and a surreal tale delivered in sung and spoken Spanish are not a recipe for traditional opera, but Milwaukee’s Florentine Opera is not ...
COT is billing this as the work’s Chicago stage premiere, which may be stretching things a bit, since “Maria de Buenos Aires” was given at the Chicago Cultural Center in 2011, albeit in a version that ...
When Pablo Zinger moved to New York from Uruguay in 1976, he was carrying a score of Astor Piazzolla’s extraordinary chamber opera, “Maria de Buenos Aires.” “That was one of my prized possessions,” ...
Director and choreographer John de los Santos and mezzo-soprano Solange Merdinian rehearsed a tango for the Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra's production of Astor Piazzolla's María de Buenos Aires.