Claudio Abbado Theater

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Teatro Comunale in Ferrara
Rotonda Foschini, the inner courtyard of the Teatro Comunale

The Teatro Comunale di Ferrara walked out of the former Teatro Comunale out and is an opera house in Ferrara , a city in the region Emilia-Romagna in Italy .

The building was designed by architects Cosimo Morelli and Antonio Foschini and built between 1786 and 1797. The Teatro Comunale opened on September 2, 1798 with a performance of Domenico Cimarosa's opera Gli Orazi ei Curiazi and has 990 seats. The premiere of Ciro in Babilonia , an early work by Gioachino Rossini , took place here in March 1812 .

Claudio Abbado chose the theater for performances by his Mahler Chamber Orchestra . After his death in the spring of 2014 it was renamed “Teatro Claudio Abbado”.

Web links

Commons : Teatro comunale (Ferrara)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Teatro Claudio Abbado, omaggio al Maestro che amava Ferrara . Report on the celebrations for the renaming of the theater on listonemag.it (Italian), accessed on November 26, 2014.

Coordinates: 44 ° 50 ′ 14.9 "  N , 11 ° 37 ′ 14.1"  E