Teatro Comunale, Florence

The Teatro Comunale di Firenze is an opera house in Florence, Italy.

It was originally built as the open-air amphitheatre, the Politeama Fiorentino Vittorio Emanuele, which was inaugurated on 17 May 1862 with a production of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor and which seated 6,000 people.

After closure caused by fire, it reopened in April 1864 and acquired a roof in 1882.

Bombing during the Second World War damaged the building once again, and other problems closed it for three years in 1958.

It had become a 2,000 seat elliptically shaped auditorium consisting of a large orchestra section, one tier of boxes, and two wide semicircular galleries, which betray the building's amphitheatre origins.