Rob P

Review of Teatro Colón

Enjoyed first class opening night of resident Orqu...

Enjoyed first class opening night of resident Orquesta Filarmonica and Chorus. This historic hall is a Must See, so is their 2 hour English Tour (cost about us$20 or ar$800). Guide related the most amazing love story that started here-- brought tears to my eyes! Hint: There's dozens of marked entrances around 4 sides of The Colon: find your ONE door address ahead of time; we almost missed the curtain, NOT UNDERSTANDING SPANISH, and my handicapped wife & I took over 25 minutes traversing ALL FOUR STREETS, before arriving at a front address, only to be ushered to an elevator in The BACK, which we had passed 15 minutes earlier. That manager read our tickets, and gave us Not Only the wrong floor (as we heard the Concert Meister tuning up and director Diemecke being applauded to the podium), but our box was way on the other side of the hall. So ushers had the fun of watching us octogenarians do a fifty yard dash in formal evening attire. That ordeal truly unraveled our composure, since for a minute I thought I'd be calling a medic! We later discovered there was an elevator DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF our box, had we made inquiries ahead of time AND KNEW SPANISH.