Teatro Comunale Modena

Local nameTeatro comunale Pavarotti-Freni
LocationModena, Italy

The Teatro Comunale di Modena is an opera house in the town of Modena,, Italy. The idea for the creation of the present theatre dates from 1838, when it became apparent that the then-existing Teatro Comunale di via Emilia was no longer suitable for staging opera. However, this house had been the venue for presentations of all of the works of Donizetti, Bellini and Rossini up to this time, and a flourishing operatic culture existed in Modena.

Under the Mayor of Modena in collaboration with the Conservatorio dell'Illustrissima Comunita, architect Francesco Vandelli was engaged to design the Teatro dell'Illustrissima Comunita, as the theatre was first called, "for the dignity of the city and for the transmission of the scenic arts". Paid for in the manner typical of the time - from the sale of boxes - in addition to a significant gift from Duke Francis IV, Vandelli created a design for the new theatre combining ideas from those in Piacenza, Mantua, and Milan, and it opened on 2 October…

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More information and contact

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teatro_Comunale_Modena

Official Website http://www.teatrocomunalemodena.it/

Email teatrocomunalemodena@pec.it

Phone +39 059 2033020

Coordinates 44°38'48.816" N 10°55'48.192" E

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