The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas . By Diana Taylor. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. Pp. xx, 326. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $79.95 cloth; $22.95 paper.
Solis had no organized archive or historical record of its events and performers. Salgado amassed this chronology by compiling the information primarily from newspaper articles, supplemented by the theater's own intermittent program collection and news clippings. As a result, Salgado provides the first systematic institutional history of the Solis. It is notable, too, that the reference should help researchers who work on opera in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro, since the Montevideo opera circuit was closely linked to those of these other South American cities.