New beat in Buenos Aires

From: Opera News | Date: September 1, 1996| Author: | Copyright information

When Sergio Renan agreed in 1989 to become general manager and artistic director of Buenos Aires' Teatro Colon, he could hardly claim ignorance about the enormity of the problems he would be facing. Two years earlier, he had been invited to direct Otello for the company; at intermission, the stage hands held a wildcat strike. "I pleaded with them, to no avail," recalls Renan. It was only one of several performances canceled because of labor unrest.

Worse was yet to come. In the midst of repair work on its stage in 1988, the Colon ran out of money, forcing the annulment of an entire season ...

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