Editing Teatro Colón (section)

==History==
[[File:Vieja Recova.jpg|thumb|left|1864 view of the original Teatro Colón (at left) and the old [[Plaza de Mayo]] colonnade, both long since demolished]]
The Colón theater operated in two buildings, the first located in the Plaza de Mayo until 1888 and the second located in front of the Plaza Lavalle, which took 20 years to be built until its inauguration in 1908. This land formerly housed the [[Del Parque railway station|Park Station]], the first railway station of the Argentine Republic as head of the [[Buenos Aires Western Railway|Western Railway of Buenos Aires]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.operas-colon.com.ar/elteatrocolon.html|title=Teatro Colón de Buenos Aires|work=Las óperas del Teatro Colón|access-date=15 May 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vmg-rwG5xaIC&pg=PT201 |title=Viejo BsAs|publisher=Del Nuevo Extremo|date=2005|first=Gabriela |last=Kogan|isbn=987-1068-71-9}}</ref>

[[File:Teatro colon 1881.jpg|thumb|left|The first theatre (left), in front of [[Plaza de Mayo]] in 1881, photo by [[Alexander Witcomb]]]]
Throughout its history the main figures of opera, classical music and world ballet have performed in the Colón theater, such as [[Arturo Toscanini]], [[Vaslav Nijinsky]], [[Luisa Tetrazzini]], [[Enrico Caruso]], [[Conchita Supervia]], [[Regina Pacini]], [[Anna Pavlova]], [[Maya Plisetskaya]], [[Margot Fonteyn]], [[Mikhail Barishnikov]], [[Antonio Gades]], [[Richard Strauss]], [[Igor Stravinsky]], [[Camille Saint-Saens]], [[Manuel de Falla]], [[Aaron Copland]], [[Herbert von Karajan]], [[Leonard Bernstein]], [[Mstislav Rostropovich]], [[Zubin Mehta]], [[Maria Callas]], [[Renata Tebaldi]], [[Leontyne Price]], [[Ana Serrano Redonnet]], [[Celia Torra]], [[Yehudi Menuhin]], [[Pau Casals]], [[Rudolf Nureyev]], [[Maurice Béjart]], [[Plácido Domingo]], [[José Carreras]], [[Luciano Pavarotti]], [[Lily Pons]], [[Marina de Gabaráin]], [[Victoria de los Ángeles]], [[Reri Grist]], [[Montserrat Caballé]], [[Kiri Te Kanawa]], among others, and Argentine artists such as [[Adelaida Negri]],<ref name=class>{{Cite web|url=http://www.classicalsource.com/db_control/db_news.php?id=7789|title=Adelaida Negri in memoriam – 12 December 1943-17 August 2019 @www.classicalsource.com|website=www.classicalsource.com|language=en|access-date=2019-12-06}}</ref> [[Héctor Panizza]], [[Alberto Ginastera]], [[Jorge Donn]], [[Norma Fontenla]], [[José Neglia]], [[Olga Ferri]], [[Julio Bocca]], Maximiliano Guerra, [[Paloma Herrera]], [[Daniel Barenboim]], [[Martha Argerich]], [[Astor Piazzolla]], [[Aníbal Troilo]] and [[Osvaldo Pugliese]]. In the last decade other popular artists such as [[Chris Cornell]], [[Katherine Jenkins]], [[Sarah Brightman]], [[Joss Stone]], [[Branford Marsalis]], play here.

Among the main events of its history are the creation of stable bodies in the 1920s and its municipalisation in 1931. In 1946, Peronism promoted a policy of openness to popular music and greater democratisation of the public, which was reverted after its overthrow in 1955 and again resumed when democracy recovered in 1983.

In 2006 a full restoration work was started that would extend until 2010, when it was reopened on May 24 in commemoration of the Bicentennial of Argentina.