Which South American capital is home to the Teatro Solís opera house?

The South American capital home to the Teatro Solís opera house is Montevideo.

Teatro Solís stands in Montevideo’s Ciudad Vieja, or Old City, near Plaza Independencia. It opened in 1856 and is Uruguay’s most important and renowned theater. The building was named for Juan Díaz de Solís, the explorer associated with the first European landing in modern-day Uruguay.

The theater was designed primarily by Italian architect Carlo Zucchi, with later work by Francisco Xavier Garmendia and Víctor Rabú. Its neoclassical exterior and elliptical concert hall reflect strong Italian architectural influence, including similarities to Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa and La Scala in Milan.

Teatro Solís is used for opera, ballet, concerts, and plays, not only opera. A major reconstruction began in 1998 and was completed in 2004, including acoustic improvements. Tomás Giribaldi’s La Parisina, often regarded as Uruguay’s first national opera, premiered there in 1878.