Teatro Duse Bologna

The Teatro Duse is among the oldest buildings in Bologna, dedicated to theater and spettacolistiche events since the mid-seventeenth century. Before space used for the collegiate scene of the Jesuit type, then from 1865 under the name of Teatro Brunetti space devoted to the popular theater that is home to spectacular heterogeneous genres, from opera to circus, operetta to comedy, from concerts to tragedies . On its stage they performed prestigious actors and great actresses as Adelaide Ristori and Sarah Bernhardt. Eleonora Duse at the age of 7 years on the Via Stationery stage was Cosette in "Les Miserables" by Victor Hugo, and since 1898 she has been named the theater. An avant-garde theater, a source of pride for the city of Bologna, both for the shows and hosted companies, both for the high technological level of the structure: at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth century becomes a cinema and was the first theater in the city to have electric lighting. The current structure, with two galleries, a gallery, two foyers, besides the reduced, dates back to 1940 modernization works. Run for 37 years by the Ente Teatrale Italian, since 2011, the Teatro Duse thanks to the synergy of six entrepreneurs who have been working in the Italian theater scene will continue to host quality shows. From classical prose, performances of contemporary drama and civil commitment, from comedies and musicals through operettas up to appointments with dance, both classical and modern new season of the Teatro Duse open to the general public.