This formidable cultural complex, home of the Opera and Ballet, as part of the old shaft and has a monumental prose theater, exhibition halls, concert halls and opera room with three levels of boxes with capacity for 2200 spectators.The Arts Center is located Teatro Argentino in La Plata heart, in the block bounded by the streets 9, 10 and 51 and 53 Avenues, where stood the traditional seat of monumental cultural complex.The construction of the theater began in 1980, obeying the La Plata project by architects Enrique Bars, Tomas Garcia, Roberto Germani, Ines Eubie, Alberto and Carlos Ucar Sbarra, who a year earlier had won the contest in question.Its floor area reaches 60,000 square meters and the geometry of its plant, with major and minor diagonals, evokes the city plan.The building is a multipurpose art scene, with attributes of a true arts complex.

It consists of the following functional areas:

Music Area: Hall Alberto Ginastera, Astor Piazzolla room, staging, rehearsal rooms, dressing rooms, workshops of production (scenery, props, costumes, etc..).

Area theater prose prose auditorium with capacity for 755 spectators and put adaptable to both classical and modern, stage, dressing rooms and production workshops, occupied by the Comedy of the Province of Buenos Aires.

Public Area: square of access, foyers, public halls, exhibition hall, terrace balcony, bars, cafes, and restaurant with 300 seats.

Electronic technical area: three rooms and the building as a whole with an electronic brain that coordinate the use of more advanced techniques. There will be open and closed circuit television, radio AM and FM use open and closed, using elements of electronic music and special effects shows.

Administrative area: offices of the directors of the various halls and administrative offices.

Cultural area: Department of Culture, specialized library, club, newspaper, tape libraries.

General Service Area: stewardship and armory, medical service, maintenance, and quartermaster, facilities, public telephone booths and covered parking for 250 cars.

In the center of the room stands the Teatro Alberto Ginastera, among the stalls and the three tiers of boxes and galleries, is able to accommodate 2200 spectators. The last room had a capacity for 1,500 people, and has an area of ​​16,000 square meters. All tests carried out ensure excellent acoustics and visibility.

On October 31, 2000, to 2000 spectators, the room was reopened Alberto Ginastera with the staging of the opera "Tosca" by Giacomo Puccini. This room has advanced stage machinery and a mobile platform that will make the scenic changes are made in a time negligible. This mobile stage is placed at 7.30 meters above the plaza level. This database has the ability to go behind the scenes, where a wagon could ride later, and thus access two different scenarios. This works from a sensitive hydraulic motor with a curtain, an engine room and a central computer.Meanwhile, the stage lighting fixtures consists of 500 different varieties - cut projectors, fresnell, followers - who were brought from Belgium and France. The machinery is controlled by light through art computer systems.The bronze chandelier, who chairs this room, weighs three tons, has 400 lamps and 25,000 watts, and is built in the likeness of which looked at the old Teatro Argentino.

The Chamber Astor Piazzolla dedicated to camera gear, was inaugurated on May 22, 2000. This room seats 300 people and included programming different cycles: Opera House, Great Artists International, National and Theater Ensembles Chamber. Also the foyer of the room temperature with exhibitions of paintings, sculptures, engravings and drawings by international artists.

In the Theatre Arts Center building is still missing Argentine Prose-room to be occupied by the Comedy of the Province of Buenos Aires, workshops and administrative sectors, the library and tape libraries, restaurant and two sets of bars.

Address: Avenida 51 between 9 and 10. Phone: (0221) 429-1700