Teatro Comunale Dante Alighieri

Ravenna, Italy

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The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.

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The Teatro Comunale Dante Alighieri, an opera house in Ravenna, Italy, was designed by the Venetian brothers Tommaso and Giovanni Battista Meduna—the latter renowned for rebuilding La Fenice after its 1836 fire—and inaugurated on 15 May 1852 with performances of Meyerbeer's *Robert le diable* and Pacini's *Medea*. Built to replace the inadequate Teatro Comunitativo (which had served the city since the early 18th century), the new theatre was positioned at the heart of the city, its cornerstone laid in 1840. The neo-classical exterior features four ionic columns and a portico adorned with statues of four Muses, while the interior comprises a traditional horseshoe-shaped auditorium with 118 boxes across four tiers, a gallery, and 830 seats. Named after Dante Alighieri, who spent his final years in Ravenna, the theatre became dominated by Verdi's works during its early decades; French grand opera also flourished there into the twentieth century. Today it maintains an annual season running November to April, complemented since 1990 by the Ravenna Festival's June–July programming of diverse operatic repertoire.