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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Teatro Comunale di Bologna

Concerts

Inaugurazione

January 2025

Inaugurazione
Music

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Soloists

  • Mezzosoprano Cecilia Molinari
  • Basso baritono Paolo Bordogna

Programme

  • Da Matilde di Shabran, Aria di Edoardo “Piange il mio ciglio, è vero”

    by Gioachino Rossini

  • Da Semiramide, Aria di Assur “Deh ti ferma.. Ti placa.. Perdona”

    by Gioachino Rossini

  • Da Otello, Aria di Desdemona “Assisa ai piè d’un salce”

    by Gioachino Rossini

  • Da Gazza ladra, Aria di Fernando “Accusata di furto!”

    by Gioachino Rossini

  • Da Semiramide, duetto Semiramide e Assur “Se la vita ancor t’è cara”

    by Gioachino Rossini

  • Sinfonia n. 1 in do minore, op. 68

    by Johannes Brahms

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By 1876 Brahms was already famous and established across the musical world without yet having attempted a symphony, a treacherous and feared form, because it meant measuring himself directly against the heights reached by Beethoven. Confronting the «giant» was unavoidable, though. Brahms came to it by degrees: with the Piano Concerto no. 1, with the two Serenades and with the Variations on a Theme by Haydn. When the moment of the First Symphony arrived, the German-speaking world was seized by an interest comparable to a Verdi première in Italy. Expectations were not disappointed. The powerful critic and intellectual Eduard Hanslick, in his triumphant review, compared Brahms to the late Beethoven and placed this first work in direct continuity with the venerated composer. At forty-three, Brahms’s challenge could be said to be won.


Concerts

Symphonic

Abbado, Gringolts

26 October 2026

Teatro Auditorium Manzoni

Abbado, Gringolts
Music
Aram Il’ič Chačaturjan, Dmitrij Dmitrievič Šostakovič
Conductor
Roberto Abbado

Concerts

Symphonic

Chauhan, Brunello

6 November 2026

Teatro Auditorium Manzoni

Chauhan, Brunello
Music
Mieczysław Weinberg, Anton Bruckner
Conductor
Alpesh Chauhan

Concerts

Symphonic

Bolton

20 November 2026

Teatro Auditorium Manzoni

Bolton
Music
Franz Joseph Haydn
Conductor
Ivor Bolton

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