Colón Theater

The Teatro Colón (Spanish) (Colón Theatre) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is one of the world's major opera houses. The present theatre, the second with that name, opened in 1908 after twenty years under construction. The auditorium is horseshoe-shaped, has 2,487 seats (slightly more than, say, the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London, England), standing room for 1,000 and a stage which is 20 m wide, 15 m high and 20 m deep. The acoustics are excellent. The theatre closed for refurbishment at the end of October 2006, with plans to reopen on 2010 The theatre is bounded by the extremely wide 9 de Julio Avenue (technically Cerrito Street), Libertad Street (the main entrance), Arturo Toscanini Street, and Tucumán Street. It is in the heart of the city on a site once occupied by Ferrocarril Oeste's Plaza Parque station. Before the construction of the current Teatro Colón, opera performances were given in several theatres, of which the first Teatro Colón (see below) and the Teatro de... full article at wikipedia