page_title: Teatro Comunale di Bologna
section_title: Works presented and people associated with the house
hierarchical_section_title: Teatro Comunale di Bologna / Works presented and people associated with the house
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: RISORGIMENTO!, Opera in un atto, Libretto di Dario Oliveri, Musica di Lorenzo Ferrero Opera realizzata in occasione della celebrazione per i 150 anni dell'Unità d'Italia Coproduzione Fondazione Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Fondazione Teatro Comunale di Modena
context_page_description: The Teatro Comunale di Bologna is an opera house in Bologna, Italy, and is one of the most important opera venues in Italy. Typically, it presents eight operas with six performances during its November to April season.
  While there had been various theatres presenting opera in Bologna since the early 17th century, they had either fallen into disuse or burnt down. However, from the early 18th century, the Teatro Marsigli-Rossi had been presenting operatic works by popular composers of the day including Vivaldi, Gluck, and Niccolò Piccinni. The Teatro Malvezzi, built in 1651, burned down in February 1745 and this event prompted the construction of a new public theatre, the Nuovo Teatro Pubblico, as the Teatro Comunale was first called when it opened on 14 May 1763.
context_section_description: The 19th century saw the presentation of twenty operas by Gioachino Rossini, while seven of Vincenzo Bellini's ten operas were presented in the 1830s. Works by Giuseppe Verdi and, later in 1871, the Italian premiere of Wagner's Lohengrin, dominated the theatre's repertoire as the century progressed. In fact, Bologna became the location for several other Wagner opera premieres in Italy, notably with the composer present for his Rienzi and the Parsifal premiere on 1 January 1914.
  Another major figure associated with the Teatro Comunale from 1894 onwards was the conductor Arturo Toscanini who presented Verdi's Falstaff in that year and conducted there until the Second World War.
  Premieres at the house have included Alessandro Solbiati's Il suono giallo, based on Wassily Kandinsky's experimental play The Yellow Sound on 13 June 2015.
caption: Scene from Lorenzo Ferrero's opera Risorgimento! given in 2011
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