Programme
Accademia
La stanza della musica
Pierino e il lupo
10, 17 October · 21, 28 November · 12 December 2026
Opera
Semele
23, 25 October 2026
Teatro Auditorium Manzoni
- Conductor
- Giulio Prandi
Accademia
Domenica in musica
Domenica in musica – Il vascello incantato
25 October 2026
Teatro Comunale di San Giovanni in Persiceto
Concerts
Symphonic
Abbado, Gringolts
26 October 2026
Teatro Auditorium Manzoni
- Music
- Aram Il’ič Chačaturjan, Dmitrij Dmitrievič Šostakovič
- Conductor
- Roberto Abbado
Concerts
Symphonic
Chauhan, Brunello
6 November 2026
Teatro Auditorium Manzoni
- Music
- Mieczysław Weinberg, Anton Bruckner
- Conductor
- Alpesh Chauhan
Accademia
Domenica in musica
Domenica in musica – II appuntamento
8 November 2026
Accademia Filarmonica via Guerrazzi 13 Bologna
Opera
Samson et Dalila
13, 15 November 2026
Teatro Auditorium Manzoni
- Conductor
- Roberto Abbado
Accademia
Concerto di Gala dell’Accademia
14 November 2026
Teatro Auditorium Manzoni
- Conductor
- Pietro Mazzetti
Concerts
Symphonic
Bolton
20 November 2026
Teatro Auditorium Manzoni
- Music
- Franz Joseph Haydn
- Conductor
- Ivor Bolton
Accademia
Domenica in musica
Domenica in musica – III appuntamento
22 November 2026
Museo della musica Strada Maggiore 34 Bologna
Concerts
Gioia
Blex
22 November 2026
Teatro Auditorium Manzoni
- Music
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Conductor
- Christian Blex
Dance
Notte Morricone
28, 29 November 2026
Teatro EuropAuditorium
- Music
- Ennio Morricone
- Company
- Centro Coreografico Nazionale / Aterballetto
Accademia
Il flauto magico – Short Edition
5 December 2026
Teatro Auditorium Manzoni
- Conductor
- Alberto Zanardi
- Director
- Giovanni Dispenza
Concerts
Symphonic
Angius, Grazia
11 December 2026
Teatro Auditorium Manzoni
- Music
- Pasquale Corrado, Paul Hindemith
- Conductor
- Marco Angius
Accademia
Domenica in musica
Domenica in musica – IV appuntamento
13 December 2026
Circolo lirico bolognese via Monaldo Calari 4/2 Bologna
Concerts
Gioia
Sauer
13 December 2026
Teatro Auditorium Manzoni
- Music
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Conductor
- Benedikt Sauer
Accademia
Domenica in musica
Domenica in musica – Concerto di Natale
20 December 2026
Teatro Auditorium Manzoni
Concerts
Gioia
Dal Maso, Mancini
3 January 2027
- Music
- Franz Joseph Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concerts
Symphonic
Weigle
10 January 2027
Teatro Auditorium Manzoni
- Music
- Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
- Conductor
- Sebastian Weigle
Concerts
Symphonic
Poga
31 January 2027
Teatro Auditorium Manzoni
- Music
- Dmitrij Šostakovič
- Conductor
- Andris Poga
Concerts
Symphonic
Marshall, Turbil, Zhang
5 February 2027
Teatro Auditorium Manzoni
- Music
- Nicola Campogrande, Sergej Rachmaninov
- Conductor
- Wayne Marshall
Concerts
Gioia
Steri, Pignoni
7 February 2027
Teatro Auditorium Manzoni
- Music
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Franz Joseph Haydn
- Conductor
- Azzurra Steri
Concerts
Chamber music
Musica vocale da camera 1
20 February 2027
Foyer Rossini
- Music
- Benjamin Britten
Concerts
Gioia
Lavrenčič, Incerti
21 February 2027
Teatro Auditorium Manzoni
- Music
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Ignaz Danzi
- Conductor
- Mojca Lavrenčič
Opera
Il ritorno di Ulisse in patria
2, 4, 6, 7 March 2027
Teatro Comunale
- Conductor
- Fabio Biondi
- Director
- Daniele Abbado
Dance
Sergio Bernal Dance Company
13, 14 March 2027
Teatro Comunale
- Music
- Canto Gregoriano; José Jiménez "El Viejin"
- Company
- Sergio Bernal Dance Company
Concerts
Chamber music
Musica vocale da camera 2
20 March 2027
Foyer Rossini
- Music
- Claude Debussy
Concerts
Gioia
Nir, Zahn
21 March 2027
Teatro Auditorium Manzoni
- Music
- Luigi Boccherini, Pablo Casals, Franz Schubert
- Conductor
- Rotem Nir
Opera
Madama Butterfly
30, 31 March · 1, 2, 3, 4 April 2027
Teatro Comunale
- Conductor
- Stefano Ranzani
- Director
- Monica Manganelli
Dance
Querencia
10, 11 April 2027
Teatro Comunale
- Music
- Moisés Sánchez
- Company
- Compagnia Antonio Najarro
Concerts
Symphonic
Boreyko, Ho
16 April 2027
Teatro Auditorium Manzoni
- Music
- Valentin Silvestrov, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Igor’ Stravinskij
- Conductor
- Andrey Boreyko
Concerts
Chamber music
Musica vocale da camera 3
17 April 2027
Foyer Rossini
- Music
- Hans Erich Pfitzner, Alban Berg, Richard Strauss, Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Concerts
Gioia
Azzena, Mariotti
18 April 2027
Teatro Auditorium Manzoni
- Music
- Franz Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Conductor
- Nicolò Azzena
Concerts
Symphonic
Shokhakimov, Petrova
23 April 2027
Teatro Auditorium Manzoni
- Music
- Jean Sibelius, Nicolaj Rimskij-Korsakov
- Conductor
- Aziz Shokhakimov
Concerts
Symphonic
Ioffe, Pagano
26 April 2027
Teatro Auditorium Manzoni
- Music
- Sergej Prokof'ev, Pëtr Il'ič Čajkovskij
- Conductor
- Alevtina Ioffe
Opera
Carmen
7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14 May 2027
Teatro Comunale
- Conductor
- Emmanuel Villaume
- Director
- Pier Francesco Maestrini
Opera
Vanessa
11, 13, 16 June 2027
Teatro Comunale
- Conductor
- Francesco Lanzillotta
- Director
- Leo Muscato
Opera
Tristan und Isolde
7, 9, 10, 12, 13 October 2027
Teatro Comunale
- Conductor
- Robert Treviño
- Director
- Yannis Kokkos
Opera
Nabucco
3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9 November 2027
Teatro Comunale
- Conductor
- Renato Palumbo
- Director
- Pier Luigi Pizzi
Opera
Accabadora
26, 28, 30 November 2027
Teatro Comunale
- Conductor
- Leonhard Garms
- Director
- Valentina Carrasco
Dance
Il lago dei cigni
17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23 December 2027
Teatro Comunale
- Music
- Pëtr Il'ič Čajkovskij
- Company
- Balletto e Opera di Tbilisi
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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.