Opera di Firenze

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Opera di Firenze (2014)

The Opera di Firenze (also Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino ) is an opera house opened in 2014 in the Tuscan capital, Florence . It is used for operas , concerts and ballet performances and is the seat of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino opera festival , of which Fabio Luisi is music director .

location

The opera is integrated into the Parco della musica e della cultura and is located in Piazza Vittorio Gui in the Florentine city park Parco delle Cascine . In the immediate vicinity is the Stazione di Firenze Porta al Prato , which is connected to the Italian state railway . There are also buses and trams for the city of Florence.

history

The new opera was built during the term of office of the then mayor Matteo Renzi (2009-2014). The Roman architecture firm ABDR Architetti Associati (with Paolo Desideri ) planned the futuristic project. With the engineering office Müller-BBM , which specializes in acoustics , a German specialist company was also involved in the work. The total construction costs , which were borne by the city of Florence, the Tuscany region and the Italian state, amount to over 150 million euros, which significantly exceeded the initial planning.

The cultural complex was provisionally inaugurated on December 21, 2011 as part of the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the unity of Italy with Beethoven's 9th Symphony under the baton of Zubin Mehta . From 2012 the opera hall was available for concert performances . In the meantime, the orchestra pit and the stage technology were completed. On May 10, 2014, the opening ceremony of the house took place with a gala, again under the direction of Zubin Mehta. Among other things, the Italian President Giorgio Napolitano was a guest. The opera house began operating in the 2014/15 season. Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's Il campiello was selected as the first production .

Since the Teatro Comunale di Firenze closed in 2014 , the opera house has been a venue for the orchestra and choir and the seat of the annual spring opera festival Maggio Musicale Fiorentino . In 2018, the Italian conductor Fabio Luisi took over from Zubin Mehta as music director of the Opera di Firenze and the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.

In July 2019, Luisi announced his resignation in a letter to Mayor Dario Nardella and Managing Director Cristiano Chiarot. At the end of August 2019 it was announced that Alexander Pereira would succeed Cristiano Chiarot as artistic director.

Premises

Overall, the opera offers space for approx. 5000 guests. Of this, around 1800 seats are in the opera hall and around 1000 in the (not yet completed) small hall, and around 2000 spectators can be accommodated on the open-air stage , the "Cavea", on the roof above the large hall.

Awards

In 2014, the Opera di Firenze was awarded the Premi Nazionali di Architettura as the best new opera building in Italy in the last five years.

Web links

Commons : Opera di Firenze  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b New opera house opened in Florence . magazin.klassik.com, May 12, 2014.
  2. ↑ Brigitte Röthlein: How good sound gets into the concert hall . welt.de, May 26, 2013.
  3. ^ Thomas Migge: New Temple of Music in Florence . Kultur heute report on Deutschlandfunk , December 21, 2011.
  4. ^ Opening “Opera di Firenze”, Florence . muellerbbm.de, accessed on August 31, 2018.
  5. ↑ Fine lines, crooked proportions . In: Opernwelt , February 2012 ( online ).
  6. ^ A new opera house for Florence . de.euronews.com, January 26, 2011.
  7. ^ Conductor Fabio Luisi leaves the Opera di Firenze. In: klassik.com. July 19, 2019, accessed August 28, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Pereira accepted offer from the Opera House in Florence. In: ORF.at . August 28, 2019. Retrieved August 28, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Roma, consegnati i Premi nazionali di architettura 2014 . repubblica.it, October 28, 2014.


Coordinates: 43 ° 46 ′ 45.5 "  N , 11 ° 14 ′ 6.4"  E