Pedro Pablo García Caffi (1944 – 1 July 2022) was an Argentine singer, stage director, producer and cultural administrator. He focused mainly on Argentine popular music, as a member of the Cuarteto Zupay; and on classical music, as conductor of the Camerata Bariloche and as general director of the Orquesta Filarmónica de Buenos Aires. He was general and artistic director of the Teatro Argentino de La Plata and general and artistic director of the Teatro Colón de Buenos Aires.
Life and career
Born in
Buenos Aires
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, Caffi became first known as founding member and lead singer of the
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group
Cuarteto Zupay.
A stage director since 1983,
following the 1991 disbandment of the group in 1992 he was nominated general director of the
Buenos Aires Philharmonic, a position he left in 1997 to become executive director of the prestigious
Camerata Bariloche
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Origins
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He directed the
Teatro Argentino de La Plata from 1999 to 2002.
Between 2009 and 2015 he served as general and artistic director of
Teatro Colón
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.
Caffi died on 1 July 2022, at the age of 77.
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1944 births
2022 deaths
Singers from Buenos Aires
Argentine folk singers
Argentine theatre people
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