Last night my friend Lina and I went to a beautiful concert at the Centro Naval in downtown Buenos Aires. The program consisted of just some popular and well known arias from various Italian operas — in other words, just the good bits and none of the boring bits! Lina is an opera fan so she might disagree!

It is, as it sounds, a building belonging to the navy and it is absolutely beautiful. Here are a couple of shots of the room where the concert was held.

In a city full of beautiful doors, this one is my personal favourite. Besides the photograph, here is a sketch of the door that I did on one of my early visits here. I sat at the cafe opposite, on a sweltering hot summer day, drinking white wine and sketching.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It turned out that the pianist and the tenor were the same people we heard sing a few weeks ago at a concert in San Isidro, and they were maybe even better here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finally, I shot a video of Nessun Dorma, one of my own favourites. Even though we were very close to the performers, I couldn’t get a clear shot, but I hope you enjoy it anyway.