Buenos Aires Teatro Colon Guided Tour

On this guided tour of the Teatro Colón, you’ll step inside a temple of world opera. An expert guide will accompany you on your tour, telling you about the theatre’s origins during the Belle Époque and the artists who have performed within its walls. The tour lasts approximately 1 hour and takes in the main highlights:

• Salón Dorado: this room reveals the ambitions of the upper middle classes of the time, who wanted to turn Buenos Aires into the ‘Paris of Latin America’. The large, richly decorated columns are particularly striking.
• Main Foyer: accessed via a monumental staircase of Carrara marble; once inside, you can admire the imposing columns of red Verona marble.
• Gallery of Busts: an area paying tribute to the masters of opera. Among the numerous statues, those of Mozart, Beethoven and Rossini are particularly noteworthy.

It is also worth looking up to appreciate the enormous dome decorated by the Argentine artist Raúl Soldi. The theatre is famous for its acoustics, which prevent sounds from ‘bouncing’ and instead distribute them throughout the interior.

Before moving to its current location, the Teatro Colón stood in the famous Plaza de Mayo, near the Casa Rosada. Finally, in 1885, the President of the Republic, Rafael Núñez, ordered the construction of a new building, which was officially opened on 12 October 1892. As it marked the 400th anniversary of the discovery of the Americas, it was named in honour of the Genoese explorer.

The theatre is located at 628 Cerrito Street, right in the heart of Buenos Aires. It’s very easy to get there by metro. You can take line B (Carlos Pellegrini or Uruguay station), line C (Lavalle) or line D (Tribunales). Alternatively, you can take the bus (colectivo). Several bus routes stop opposite or a short distance from the entrance.