After Manhattan's Metropolitan, the most important opera house in the Western Hemisphere is Buenos Aires' Teatro Colón. There, every year during the cool, long nights from May to October, porteño socialites and intellectuals walk down velvet-carpeted aisles to sit in rose plush chairs and gilded boxes, listening to the world's greatest singers.
Since Argentina produces comparatively few opera singers of its own, most of the Teatro Colón's stars are imported. In normal times, they come from Europe. This year its vocal supply lines cut by war, the management had little choice but to...
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