Maria de Buenos Aires                                                    

Music by Astor Piazzolla   Libretto by Horacio Ferrer

Tango legend Astor Piazzolla created the soulful opera Maria de Buenos Aires during the turbulent years of one of the military dictatorships in Argentina with the libretto by poet Horacio Ferrer.

United by ties of friendship, by shared dreams of freedom and by their passionate devotion to tango and its myths, their “urban operita” fearlessly questioned the moral and religious standards imposed by the ruling powers, touching issues of social violence, poverty, marginality, abuse and religious beliefs.

Maria is more than a tortured figure in a doomed love story: she is the embodiment of the city of Buenos Aires itself - beautiful and alluring, yet dark, insane and dangerous.