Teatro Comunale

Ferrara, Italy

Open to visitors

The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.

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Phone: +39 0532 202675

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The Teatro Comunale in Ferrara, Italy, is an opera house built between 1786 and 1797 under architects Cosimo Morelli and Antonio Foschini, whose design disagreements over the auditorium's elliptical shape were resolved through compromise. Seating 890 across five tiers, the theatre was inaugurated on 2 September 1798 with a performance of Portogallo's *Gli Orazi e i Curiazi*. It gained further renown as the venue for Gioacchino Rossini's operatic debut, *Ciro in Babilonia*, in March 1812. The auditorium ceiling displays four scenes from the life of Julius Caesar. Heavily damaged during World War II bombing, the theatre closed in 1956 and remained shuttered until restoration in the early 1960s, with further renovations completed between 1987 and 1989. An orchestra pit was added in 1928. Since the establishment of Ferrara Musica in 1988, the theatre has hosted an expanded calendar of operatic and cultural performances.