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In front of more than a thousand people, mostly standing, the Berlin Staatskapelle, of which Barenboim has been the director since 1992, played at the opening of "The Barber of Seville", the first of its kind. Opera of the Italian Rossini.
The presentation took place on the Vatican Square, next to the mythical Teatro Colón de Buenos Aires, on the occasion of the "Barenboim Festival" organized annually by the highest Colosseum of Argentina, with a program of nine concerts in ten days.
The second piece is "Iberia", the second part of the triptych "Images", composed by the French Debussy, and concludes the show with a part of "The Rite of Spring" by Stravinsky.
When the concert was over, the fervent public of Buenos Aires forced Barenboim to come on stage with shouts and applause, as if he were a rock star, and the orchestra played "The Polish" of the Opera "Eugene Onegin" by the Russian Tchaikovsky.
"I know that Argentina is going through a difficult time, but we are going through difficult times," Barenboim said before leaving.
"I ask you one thing, nothing else: do not forget the culture, when the situation in life is difficult, the first thing you want to leave them is the culture , which gives joy, "adds the director before an ovation.
Today, Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin will present their last concert of Richard Wagner's opera "Tristán e Isolda", in the main hall of Teatro Colón.
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