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Teatro Comunale di Bologna. Design and inauguration[edit]. Associated music history[edit]. Conductors in leadership positions[edit]. External links[edit].
Bologna's Teatro Comunale di Bologna houses opera performances. It usually presents six operas during the November-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.
The theatre design contract was awarded to Antonio Galli Bibiena[1], despite opposition from other applicants. Gluck's Il trionfo de Clelia was the theatre's first performance. This opera had been written by Gluck for the occasion. As a fire protection measure, the auditorium was a bell-shaped structure with four levels of boxes and a royal box. It also has a small gallery and a small gallery. The facade, however, was not finished until 1936. Many of the facilities on the backstage that would have allowed opera performances were not completed and only been completed by competition from an 1805 theatre.