Italian Opera Houses

Italian opera can be divided into two periods, the Baroque and the Renaissance. Italian opera started in the renaissance and early baroque eras with Italian opera houses throughout Italy. As the history of Italian opera has it, wealthy people in Italy would fund these extravagant Italian operas combining drama, music, dance and preformed them in the most extravagant Italian opera houses around. From these combinations of the arts, Italian opera began its entrance into music and history of Italian opera in the towns of Padua, Mantua, and Ferrarra. These cities had been a great focal point of medieval Italian opera.

Teatro Alla Scala of Milan

Teatro San Carlo of Naples

Teatro Della Pergola of Florence

Teatro Regio of Turin

Teatro Comunale of Bologna

Teatro Comunale Giuseppe Verdi of Trieste

Teatro La Fenice of Venice

Teatro Dell’Opera of Rome

Teatro Regio of Parma

Teatro Carlo Felice of Genoa

Teatro Massimo Bellini of Catania

Teatro Massimo of Palermo