Following its success in 2025, La Cité Bleue is reviving the spellbinding *María de Buenos Aires*, Astor Piazzolla’s masterpiece with a libretto by the poet Horacio Ferrer. At the crossroads of opera, theater, and tango, this “opérita,” created in 1968, is one of the most unique scores of the 20th century.

María is born in the suburbs of Buenos Aires. She dances, loves, falls, disappears, and is reborn—a mythical and sensual figure, the poetic double of the city itself. Narrators, singers, dancers, and musicians revolve around her in a fragmented, hallucinatory drama where reality blends with dreams.

With María de Buenos Aires, Piazzolla invents a tango of daring harmonies, incisive rhythms, and raw lyricism. The bandoneon weeps and burns, while the finely crafted strings engage in a constant dialogue with the voice. This music, both urban and metaphysical, carries the memory of the barrios as much as it offers a contemporary vision of tango.

The 2026 revival restores all the power of this landmark production: faithful to Piazzolla’s spirit, La Cité Bleue’s production transforms this work into a sensual and incandescent theater of passions.