Opera Houses in Italy

Italian opera is both the art of opera in Italy and opera in the Italian language. Opera was born in Italy around the year 1600 and Italian opera has continued to play a dominant role in the history of the form until the present day. 

Many famous operas in Italian were written by foreign composers, including Handel, Gluck and Mozart. Works by native Italian composers of the 19th and early 20th centuries, such as Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi and Puccini, are amongst the most famous operas ever written and today are performed in opera houses across the world. The experts at Italy 4 Real have compiled a list of Italy’s most popular opera houses. 

• Teatro Alla Scala of Milan www.lascala.milano.it
• Teatro San Carlo of Naples www.teatrosancarlo.it
• Teatro Della Pergola of Florence www.pergola.firenze.it
• Teatro Regio of Turin www.teatroregio.torino.it
• Teatro Comunale of Bologna www.comunalebologna.it
• Teatro Comunale Giuseppe Verdi of Trieste www.teatroverdi-trieste.com
• Teatro La Fenice of Venice www.teatrolafenice.it
• Teatro Dell'Opera of Rome www.opera.roma.it
• Teatro Regio of Parma www.teatroregioparma.org
• Teatro Carlo Felice of Genoa www.carlofelice.it
• Teatro Massimo Bellini of Catania www.teatromassimobellini.it
• Teatro Massimo of Palermo www.teatromassimo.it