Buenos Aires Bedlam: Cleaning Up The Mess At The Renovated Teatro Colón

As the legendary opera house “reopens in a limited season after a seemingly interminable eight years of upheaval, including three years of complete closure, the feeling for many is more of outrage than affection. … Like much else in volatile Argentina, … the project has lurched from crisis to crisis, plagued by grandstanding, cronyism and economic mismanagement.”