The Teatro dell'Opera in Rome
- Stunning historic and contemporary photography of the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome
- A comprehensive, elegant volume for all lovers of opera, theater, Italian travel, and world monuments to music
Rising near the baths of Diocletian, where Imperial Rome once proclaimed its power, the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome stands as a different but no less enduring monument to Italian genius. Inaugurated in 1880 as the Teatro Costanzi, it was born at a pivotal hour – when a newly unified Italy sought not only political coherence but a shared cultural soul. Within its crimson and golden interiors, that soul found one of its most resounding expressions. Here Puccini’s Tosca premiered in 1900, at a time when the theater became both witness and protagonist of modernity – surviving war, regime, and reinvention – while safeguarding a repertoire that binds Italy to the wider world. To enter its auditorium is to step into a continuum: ancient stone outside, velvet and light within, and above all the breath of singers transforming silence into shared memory. This is a stunning volume, enriched by glorious photography, that honors and uplifts one of the most important opera houses in the world.
Text in English and Italian.
- Publisher
- Scripta Maneant Editori
- ISBN
- 9791280717337
- Publish date
- 17th Nov 2026
- Binding
- Hardback
- Territory
- USA & Canada
- Size
- 6.69 in x 9.45 in
- Pages
- 296 Pages
- Illustrations
- 149 color
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