The Teatro Colón is already preparing the presidential gala to honor the president-elect Javier Milei after his inauguration. And from the Buenos Aires coliseum, which Jorge Telerman will continue to direct, they presented the libertarian with a “musical menu” for his approval. Finally, it was agreed that a fragment of Madame Butterfly would be played, the work by Giacomo Puccini that the president-elect witnessed before the runoff, attending the last performance in the company of his girlfriend Fátima Flórez.
In this context, Milei was booed by the audience and some musicians and theater employees. At the same time, another group cheered and whistled at the eschacadores, and part of the orchestra that played the Peronist march from the pit in the middle of the gala. Moment of revenge for Milei who will now have the main stage of the Buenos Aires opera for four years as tradition dictates.
And between those rematches, Milei himself would have made a special request. Faced with the suggestion of including a local piece in the repertoire, the president would have rejected, according to the corridors of the Colón, folklore options, preferring something from tango, more precisely by Astor Piazzolla. They would have offered him “Libertango”, a nod to his political side, and also the classic “Cafetín de Buenos Aires”, traditional curtain of “Polemica en el Bar”.
But Javier Milei would have preferred “Balada para un loco”, the tango composed by Piazzolla with lyrics by Horacio Ferrer and performed by Amelita Baltar. And names for the interpreter were informally discussed. Raúl Lavié was considered, but the musician’s entourage assured that there were no communications. “For now it’s just a rum rum, but no one communicated with us,” said a relative of “Negro.”
by RN
