edgepedia

Italian opera houses and theatres

8 articles

Teatro Argentina

Teatro Argentina is an 18th-century opera house at Largo di Torre Argentina in Rome, inaugurated in 1732 and remembered for the fiasco premiere of Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia in 1816.

Teatro Carignano

The Teatro Carignano is an 18th-century theater in Turin, Italy, built for the princes of Carignano and now the principal stage of the Teatro Stabile di Torino.

Teatro Comunale, Bologna

The Teatro Comunale is Bologna's principal opera house, one of Italy's first built with public funds, opened in 1763 with the premiere of Gluck's Il trionfo di Clelia.

Teatro dell'Opera di Roma

Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, commonly called the Costanzi, is Rome's principal opera and ballet theater, inaugurated in 1880 and home to the world premieres of Cavalleria rusticana and Tosca.

Teatro della Pergola

The Teatro della Pergola is a historic theater in Florence, Italy, founded in 1652 and regarded as the first great example of the Italian-style opera house.

Teatro Farnese

Teatro Farnese is a Baroque wooden court theater in Parma's Palazzo della Pilotta, built in 1617–1618 to a design by Giovan Battista Aleotti and used only nine times.

Teatro Valle

Teatro Valle is an 18th-century theater in central Rome, inaugurated in 1727 and considered the city's oldest theater still active; Pirandello's Six Characters premiered there in 1921.

The system of Italian-style condominio theatres of the 18th and 19th centuries in Central Italy

Serial UNESCO World Heritage property (inscribed 2026, criterion iii) of ten 18th-19th century Italian-style condominio theatres in Emilia-Romagna, Marche, and Umbria, jointly owned by municipalities and private citizens' società condominiali; Italy's 62nd World Heritage site, dossier 1762.