Word: colon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pillared magnificence of the Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires. . . . an interior bepeopled, bejeweled. On stage: Beniamino Gigli, Metropolitan tenor; Claudia Muzio, Chicago soprano. . . The music by Catalan! (Loreley). . . In the box with President and Mme. de Alvear, a pleasant Prince. For a further account of the season at the Teatro Colon, see Music, Page...
Standing alone, en face an entire square, fronted by a great piazza, opulent, spacious, its auditorium seven tiered, its broad stairways of scintillant marble, the Teatro Colon easily outranks, surpasses all other South American opera centers. Its seating capacity is 3500- It has been spoken of by Burton Holmes, famed traveler, loquacious lecturer, as "the best appointed theater I ever inspected." Commenced in 1889, completed in 1908, it has teemed ever since with the most consistently well dressed public in the world. To those not in evening dress-the embellished portal is Cerrado, Chiuso, Ferme, Locked...
...opulent Panhards, Renaults, Minervas of opera bound millionaires. The antithetically poor move slower, but in the same direction, stopping at dingy cigarrerias for fat pendulous cigars. From the Loterias, orthodox and legal vendors of chance, stream the fortunate, to cash their winnings, for a stall, a box, in La Colon...
...glitters, every glitter caught and sifted, anatomized, dissected by high power opera glasses. Potent heads of distinguished families deign to perform the nod of grand grandees. Fierce caballeros bristle, melt before shrill senoritas, bristle again at other cocks, conquistadors. Programs, chiefly of native and Italian opera, rustle. In La Colon's unique gallery, sacred to unattended women, the fair sit sequestered, safe. In the huge "mourning boxes," equipped with iron screens, the rich lounge in privilege. One can peer out, not in. El telon (curtain) rises...
This year was the first time that La Colon had been operated as a municipal opera. Opening with Falstaff the present repertoire included Manon, La Boheme, Romeo and Juliet, Parsifal,-excuses for every summersault possible to Argentine emotions. Said Senor Al-vear, Argentine President, present on the opening night: "I am glad that Falstaff is back...