26 May - 5 Dec 2010 (annual) Teatro Colón
One of the great operatic jewels of any continent, Buenos Aires' Teatro Colón runs an annual season of great opera from August to December. It also serves as the capital's headquarters of the national ballet and the national symphony orchestra. More
13 Aug - 25 Oct 2010; not Tue MALBA
Buenos Aires' MALBA museum's selection of 100 works from one of Europe's pivotal corporate art collections is a panorama of abstract tendencies in 20th-century art. Geometry in the 20th Century in the Daimler Art Collection features big names. More
10 Sep - 1 Nov 2010; not Tue MALBA
Buenos Aires-born Alfredo Prior is a key figure from Argentina's exciting 1980s artistic boom. The MALBA museum exhibits his latest work, neo-Mannerist abstract paintings with dissolved colours that create a fantastic marble effect, sometimes shiny and sometimes opaque. More
10 Sep - 22 Nov 2010; not Tue MALBA
Argentine artist Silvia Rivas' video installations at Buenos Aires' MALBA museum belong to the Zumbido ('buzzing') series and tackle the issues of time and its material nature. Watch a game of movement and sound between a fly and a man. More
Daily San Telmo
San Telmo still reverberates with twirling couples dancing tango. The barrio may have once been filled with the seedier and more colourful of Buenos Aires' citizens but the legacy they have left is one of sensuality, pleasure and sultry defiance. More