Tango Maria de Buenos Aires: An opera with a dark heart
TANGO opera Maria de Buenos Aires, at Cork Opera House this Midsummer, will draw you into the Argentine capital’s slums. The show is peopled with thieves, brothel keepers, and lost waifs.
The hypnotic, beating music and the libretto are by visionary artists, Astor Piazzolla and Horacio Ferrer, respectively, who premiered the tango opera at the Sala Planeta, in Buenos Aires, in 1968. It is the Opera House’s big-budget production for the year.
