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Bellini Theatre

The Massimo theater is the place for the staging of the opera. Inaugurated in 1890 with the staging of "Norma", the work of Vincenzo Bellini.

The Massimo Bellini Theatre is the place where it stages the opera. Its construction was troubled, it was interrupted several times due to lack of funds and completed at the end of the 19th century with the official inauguration, on May 31th in 1890, during which was staged ‘Norma’ by Vincenzo Bellini, the famous Catania composer which it is dedicated.

The architect Carlo Sada decided to plan and implement the unfinished building on the existing theater, designed by Stefano Ittar. The facade is built according to the Venetian style, the internal spaces are full of frescoes and sculptures among them it’s important to see the bronze’s one depicting Vincenzo Bellini in the foyer, created by Salvo Giordano.

The central hall is composed of four tiers of stages and galleries on which dominates the evocative fresco ceiling made by Ernesto Bellandi, the “Apotheosis of Bellini”. The Bellini Theatre has been celebrated by different tenors, like Stefano Gigli, for its exceptional acoustics like that “San Carlo” and the “Fenice” theatre in Naples and Venice.

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Via Giuseppe Perrotta, 12

95131 Catania

Telephone:

+39 095 7306111

Mail

sovrintendente@teatromassimobellini.it