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Teatro Olimpico

Theater · Flaminio, Italy

A theatre of 1,410 seats, 966 in the raked stalls and 444 in the horseshoe gallery, with a stage about 10 metres deep by 12 metres wide, a removable timber floor and an orchestra pit. The block stands between piazza Gentile da Fabriano, lungotevere Flaminio, viale del Vignola and via Giorgio Vasari. The theatre's own site gives box-office hours of 9.30 to 13.00 and 14.00 to 18.30, Monday to Friday, and a summer closure from 25 July to 23 August. The Accademia Filarmonica Romana is the resident institution and stages most of its events here.

History

The block was built in 1935 and 1936 by the firm Garbarino, Sciaccaluga e Mezzacane for the Società Generale Immobiliare, which had bought the property from the Banca Commerciale Italiana in 1935. It ran as the Cine-Teatro Olimpico from 1936, mainly as a cinema with avanspettacolo in the intervals; the Accademia Filarmonica Romana leased it after the Second World War; Teatro Olimpico s.p.a. was formed in 1980 and bought the building, and the name and the programme became Teatro Olimpico in 1981. The building is late-Rationalist: reinforced concrete, with a travertine plinth and travertine window surrounds. On 4 March 1965 Pierre Boulez conducted here the Italian premiere of Stravinsky's Abraham and Isaac and the European premiere of his Elegy for J.F.K. The Accademia itself was founded in Rome in 1821 by amateur musicians led by Raffaele Muti Papazzurri, was made an official institution of the Papal States in 1824, and is a non-profit body under a presidential decree of 7 February 1969.

Visit

Piazza Gentile da Fabriano 17, 00196 Roma RM

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