Colon captures a controversial conductor
OrchestrasThe Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires has appointed Beatrice Venezi as Principal Guest Conductor of Colón’s resident orchestra and of its opera season. She is presently rehearsing Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera.
Venezi, 34, is a close associate of the Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni and is advisor on music to the Italian Minister of Culture.
Her role in Argentina is sponsored by the Italian Embassy in Buenos Aires.
Good luck.
So not Zoe Zeniodi?
ZZ is not Principal Guest Conductor, she’s Principal Conductor (full-stop).
Let me explain this.
As we are a poor country with nine defaults in one century, now the new administration of the Colón theatre decided that the musical conductor for the resident orquesta created in 1925 (for ópera and concerts) will be Beatrice Venezi.
The other ensamble OFBA Buenos Aires Philharmonic Orchestra founded 80 years ago established at the same Opera House will have as chief conductor Zoe Zeniodi… we share at the same home, Greek tragedy and Roman farce…
What makes her “controversial?”