María de Buenos Aires
Tango operita in two parts by Astor Piazzolla
Marguerre-Saal
»Misa a Buenos Aires« (excerpts) / Misatango by Martín Palmeri
in Spanish and German with German supertitles
[recommended for ages 15 and up]
María is a refugee from the country, an immigrant from Europe and has stranded in Buenos Aires’ red-light district. María is the music composed from all of that: the guitar tunes of Argentina's Pampa, the dances, romances and ballads of immigrants. María is tango. María dies and is reborn. Just like tango was reborn.
Astor Piazzolla, the son of Italian immigrants, was among those who introduced the tango, previously associated with Argentina’s sub-culture, to bourgeois salons and the world’s big concert stages. »María de Buenos Aires«, a lyrical oratorio-like tale praising life and freedom, was premiered in 1968, as a collaboration with his long-term artistic partner, Horacio Ferrer. In his poetic texts, Ferrer linked the idea of Catholic Marian devotion with the history of tango.
The story of the Argentine human rights movement Madres de Plaza de Mayo – an association of women whose children, grandchildren and husbands were abducted during the second military dictatorship – began ten years after the premiere of »María de Buenos Aires«, so it was not the catalyst for the creation of this work. However, as our staging aims to show, combined with Piazzolla's wonderful music and excerpts from Martín Palmeri's Misatango »Misa a Buenos Aires«, it can take this narrative further and carry it into a world where mothers still fear for and fight for their missing children, regardless of their age.
On
14.11.2025
21.11.2025
6.12.2025
14.12.2025
30.12.2025
13.1.2026
4.4.2026
On
25.1.2026
2.2.2026
22.2.2026
2.4.2026
The production of the decorative parts is carried out in the workshops of the Theater und Orchester Heidelberg.
A complete list of all employees of the technical departments involved can be found here.
Listen to an introduction by Ulrike Schumann (in German) here.