After that glorious season, Gayarre moved to the new continent. "Gayarre had had seven years of glorious career when, in the spring of 1876, coming from Milan, he arrived in Buenos Aires -says Isidoro de Fagoaga- to take part in the official season that was held annually in the old Coln theater. His presentation was made on the night of May 14, with the opera that consecrated him at the Scala in Milan, La Favorita.The public's expectation was enormous and they were not disappointed.During the first three acts the enthusiasm was When, already in the last one, he sang "with paradisa aca voice" the difficult aria Spirto gentil the audience that occupied all the locations, standing up, applauded him for several minutes with delirious enthusiasm. Critics such as Estrada, Can , Bosch, Wilde and Hector Varela exhausted their praise. This success was ed in successive evenings with the same enthusiasm. Gayarre donated to the charitable societies of Buenos Aires all the savings from the season. Despite his wishes, the Navarrese tenor already will not return to America. The last management in this regard it was in charge of the famous pelotari "Chiquito de Eibar", a friend and admirer of the tenor. He went to see Roncal, commissioned by the Col n company, Chiquito de Eibar, Indalecio Sarasqueta, and played with Gayarre on Roncal's front n. In the afternoon a popular meal was served followed by dancing. He had to go to Alhama de Aragón because of a cold that he had caught in the frontn, and there he recovered. On his only trip to America, he had also sung in La Plata and R o de Janeiro with constant success.
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