Teatro Comunale di Bologna

Season 2026

The full calendar of the last season before the grand return to the historic venue: Opera, Concerts, Dance and Academy.

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Season 2027

The 2027 season of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna marks its return to the historic home in Piazza Verdi after restoration.

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Past seasons

Explore the archive of past seasons year by year and discover the artists who have graced the Comunale’s stage.

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Teatro Comunale di Bologna

Guided tours

Guided tours

Visit Teatro Comunale

A guided route through the foyer, the auditorium, the stage and the workshops. Discover how a performance is made, behind the scenes of one of the oldest theatres in Europe.

60 min

Tour length

€15

Ticket price

Italian, English

Languages

Accessible facilities

Accessibility

What you will see

Bibiena's rose window

You walk into the auditorium and look up: the rose window at the centre of the vault, and all around it the tiers of boxes that draw the bell shape designed by Antonio Galli Bibiena.

Foyer Respighi

The first room you meet coming in from the portico, with its Venetian terrazzo floor and large windows onto the square. Since 1936 it has carried the name of Ottorino Respighi.

The seats

The stalls seen from the stage: rows of green seats and, all around them, the boxes closing in on the auditorium.

Corridors and staircases

Behind every box there is a corridor and a staircase: that is how you reach the tiers, one after another.

The hundred boxes

The auditorium from above with a full house, the orchestra and chorus on stage and every tier of boxes taken.

Foyer Rossini

The Theatre's second foyer, on the level of the third tier of boxes, carved out of the space above the portico. On the walls, oval paintings of landscapes.

Rotonda Gluck

The rotunda leading to the stalls sections, with an inlaid star at the centre of the floor. It carries the name of Christoph Willibald Gluck, composer of the opera that opened the Theatre in 1763.

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