Teatro Massimo Bellini
Coordinates: 37 ° 30 ′ 15.2 " N , 15 ° 5 ′ 24.3" E
The Teatro Massimo Bellini is an opera house in Catania , Sicily .
The opera house in Vincenzo Bellini's birth town opened on May 31, 1890 with the Norma opera .
The house holds 1200 spectators and was designed by the architect Andrea Scala and modified and built by his colleague Carlo Sada . The facade is inspired by the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice by Jacopo Sansovino , but the rest of the building is different and takes on the typical form of a theater.
During its existence, the opera house showed almost all of Bellini's works. Many of his operas have been performed by famous opera singers. In 1951 , on Bellini's 150th birthday, Maria Callas sang the role of Norma .
Web links
- http://www.teatromassimobellini.it (Italian)