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The Orchestra of Teatro Comunale di Bologna at Festival Verdi with Nabucodonosor
From 3 to 24 October the Orchestra of Teatro Comunale di Bologna took centre stage at Teatro Regio in Parma with Nabucodonosor, the third opera of the 26th Festival Verdi. The new production, directed and designed by Pier Luigi Pizzi, was staged by Teatro Regio di Parma and co-produced with Teatro Comunale di Bologna and Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa.
Teatro Comunale reopens: on 14 February 2027 the Sala Bibiena welcomes audiences back
After the restoration works, a day of celebration with Daniele Gatti on the podium and a month of events across the city. On 2 March the Opera Season opens with Il ritorno di Ulisse in patria
The theatre has a brand new website!
Teatro Comunale di Bologna has a new website. It is not just a different look: it is a different way of holding together what the Theatre does — the performances, the people who sign them, the halls that host them — and of making it all reachable in a few steps, from any screen.
The Comunale’s Orchestra opens and closes the Rossini Opera Festival
Four dates in Pesaro, from Le siège de Corinthe with Carlo Rizzi and Davide Livermore to the Stabat Mater conducted by Ramón Tebar
Where the restoration of the Comunale is measured in centimetres.
On the scaffolding beneath the ceiling of Teatro Comunale di Bologna, even the labels on the jars tell a story. “Raw umber”, “burnt sienna”, they read: pigments with old names, sitting beside swabs and mixtures prepared on the spot. This is the domain of Phyllis Novara, site manager for Leonardo
“2 agosto” Competition: music by young composers in Piazza Maggiore, so as not to forget
This year once again Teatro Comunale di Bologna represented the city with the final concert of the "2 agosto" International Composition Competition, now in its 32nd edition, founded to commemorate the victims of the bombing at Bologna station on 2 August 1980. The evening took place on Sunday 2 August in Piazza Maggiore and was broadcast live on Rai 5 and Rai Radio3.
From Vanessa to MIKA: the TCBO Orchestra takes centre stage in Spoleto
At the 69th Festival dei Due Mondi, Barber's opera opens the festival and the concert MIKA Symphonique fills Piazza Duomo
Inside a hidden corner of the building site.
There is a place in Teatro Comunale di Bologna that the public never sees: it lies above the vault of the Sala Bibiena. With 198 days to go to the reopening on 14 February 2027, that is where the heart of the site beats. On the scaffolding built up against the ceiling works Adele Galetti, site director for Leonardo, the firm carrying out the restoration: «We are on the ceiling scaffolding and the restoration of the wall paintings is under way. Behind me are the restorers at work».
«A historic theatre never stops living». Restorer Bevilacqua on the Comunale’s building site
212 days to 14 February 2027, the date on which Teatro Comunale di Bologna will open its doors again. On the scaffolding that fills the Sala Bibiena today, the conservation and maintenance of the surfaces advances centimetre by centimetre, led by Fabio Bevilacqua, conservator of cultural heritage and operations director of the works, who drew up the project together with the architect Francesco Dalmastri.