Otello

TEATRO COMUNALE DI BOLOGNA

Built to host Italian melodrama, the Teatro Comunale carries with it not only its own history but also the entire history of the city that hosts it, in the place where the splendid Palazzo dei Bentivoglio was once admired. From the beginning, the Comunale established itself as the major theater of a city that, from the late 17th century until the triumph of Casa Ricordi and industrial publishing, played the role of the capital of the Italian opera production system. The theater has dominated, from its inception, the fabric of a city that was home to an impressive number of agents, impresarios, singers, dancers, instrumentalists, designers, and scene and costume renters, as well as the influential Accademia Filarmonica, which, among others, graduated a fourteen-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart under the guidance of Padre Martini.