Avenida Theatre

It soon earned renown for its varied operettas and zarzuelas (many led by renowned Spanish theatre director Federico Moreno Torroba), as well as for special events, such as a 1939 production of Aida for the benefit of Spanish charities dealing with the aftermath of that country's Civil War.

One early success was the local 1963 production of Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate.

Varying its repertoire, the Avenida featured a production of Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata in 1967 and the theatre's purchase by local impresario Faustino García helped lead to Moreno Torroba's return in 1970 and a revival of the Avenida's erstwhile standby, the zarzuela, during that decade.

The advent of Argentina's last military dictatorship in 1976 led to an abrupt decline in local theatre activity, leading to the Avenida's closure in 1977.

With the closure of the city's Teatro Colón, which started refurbishment in October 2006, the Avenida picked up its classical opera programming, and in the past few years both Buenos Aires Lírica alongside Juventus Lírica, consisting mostly of promising young voices, staged humble productions of major titles such as Puccini's Madama Butterfly, Bizet's Carmen, Verdi's Aida and La Traviata, Mozart's The Magic Flute and The Marriage of Figaro, Rossini's The Barber of Seville, amongst others.