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Silvio Rodríguez Opens Buenos Aires Run With Intimate, Career-Spanning Night at Movistar Arena

A packed crowd heard the Cuban trovador fuse song with verse in his first local show in seven years.

Overview

  • Rodríguez returned to the Movistar Arena for the first of multiple dates, performing to a visibly moved audience of more than ten thousand.
  • He opened with Ala de colibrí and drew from across his catalog, favoring classics over material from his recent album Quería saber.
  • Mid-concert, poet Jorge Boccanera took the stage to read selected works, underscoring the evening’s literary framing.
  • The set included a homenaje to Cuban nueva trova peers with Créeme (Vicente Feliú), Te perdono (Noel Nicola) and Yolanda (Pablo Milanés), alongside Niurka González and Malva Rodríguez González.
  • He acknowledged a cold yet completed the show, closing with two encores—Historia de la silla and Rabo de nube—and recited Luis Rogelio Nogueras’s Halt! in a segment that signaled solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.