The Consul
Functions and Availability of Tickets
The Consul
Teatro Colón new production
TEATRO COLÓN PERMANENT ORCHESTRA
CONDUCTOR
Justin Brown
STAGE DIRECTOR
Ruben Szuchmacher
PLAYWRIGHT
Lautaro Vilo
SET AND COSTUME DESIGN
Jorge Ferrari
LIGHTING
Gonzalo Córdova
Main Interpreters
JOHN SOREL
Leonardo Neiva
MAGDA SOREL
Carla Filipcic Holm
SECRETARY OF THE CONSULATE
Adriana Mastrángelo
SECRET AGENT
Héctor Guedes
MR. KOFNER
Alejandro Spies
FOREIGN WOMAN
Marisú Pavón
The Consul tells the misadventures of a politically persecuted man and the Kafkaesque efforts of his wife in a diplomatic headquarters to flee to a free country. A humanist and playwright of popular roots, much of Menotti's (1911-2007) work explores the connection between man and power in all its manifestations.
In 1999, at the age of 88, the Italian-American composer came to Argentina for the first time to take charge of the régie of this title at the Teatro Colón which, between 1953 and 1967, had already offered it in four seasons, after its world premiere in Philadelphia. For this opera, Menotti won the Pulitzer Prize for Music and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award.