Teatro Rossini (Pesaro)

Built as the Teatro Nuovo (on the site of the original 1637 Teatro del Sole), it was inaugurated on 10 June 1818 with a performance of Gioacchino Rossini's La gazza ladra conducted by the composer in the town of his birth.

It seats 860, with an auditorium designed in the classic horseshoe shape with four tiers of boxes plus the gallery.

In 1966, however, cracks in the walls and decaying woodwork led to its being declared unsafe, and it was closed for 14 years.

It re-opened again on 6 April 1980, the same year as the first Rossini Opera Festival took place.

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