Teatro Rossini, Opera house in Pesaro, Italy
Teatro Rossini is an opera house in the center of Pesaro, built around a horseshoe-shaped auditorium with four tiers of private boxes and a gallery level. The hall seats around 860 people and retains its original architectural layout.
The first theater on the site, the Teatro del Sole, was built in 1637. It was rebuilt in 1818 and inaugurated on 10 June as the Teatro Nuovo with Rossini conducting La gazza ladra. In 1854 it took its current name in honor of the composer.
The theater is the main stage of the Rossini Opera Festival, held each summer in Pesaro. During the festival, the tiers fill with visitors from around the world who feel a direct connection to the composer's hometown while sitting inside the hall.
A renovation in 2002 updated the technical facilities of the house without changing its 19th-century appearance. A visit during the Rossini Opera Festival in summer gives the best sense of the hall in full use.
When the house reopened in 1818, Gioachino Rossini himself conducted the performance of his opera La gazza ladra on that occasion. It is one of the rare cases where a composer personally inaugurated a hall that would later bear his name.
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