Galli Theater in Rimini. Walls that rise like the phoenix

It will be the superdiva of the belcanto Cecilia Bartoli, Roman but from Rimini of origins, to make the lights of the Teatro Amintore Galli of Rimini turn on again next Sunday at 20 at the end of the construction and restoration works that return it entirely to the city after 75 years. La Bartoli, exceptional godmother of this rebirth, will be on stage at Galli with Gioachino Rossini's 'La Cenerentola', in the semi-scenic version, on historical instruments, produced by the Opéra de Monte-Carlo with Le Musiciens du Prince - Monaco directed by Gianluca Capuano and the male choir of the Opéra di Monte-Carlo. In the cast, with Bartoli in the role of Angelina, Edgardo Rocha is Don Ramiro, Alessandro Corbelli is Dandini, Carlos Chausson plays the role of Don Magnifico. The show, born in 2017, had an extraordinary international success and last August, at the Lucerne Festival, it collected ten minutes of applause with the standing audience.

The theater, destroyed by the bombings of 1943, was rebuilt on the original "Italian" design made by Luigi Poletti, with the improvement of the spaces and the corrections necessary to guarantee excellent acoustics and visibility. The Modenese architect linked to the Roman purist neoclassical school, had designed the Rimini theater which had been inaugurated in 1847 with Giuseppe Verdi's 'Aroldo', a work written for the occasion by the composer from Busseto. On December 28, 1943, during an air raid, the theater was hit by bombs which caused the roof of the hall to collapse. The ferocity of the war has forced silence and dust for decades. (Adnkronos)