Teatro Fraschini

The Teatro Fraschini is a theatre ''all'italiana'' with a bell-shaped hall with four tiers of boxes and a gallery, 750 seats.
With the Teatro Comunale of Bologna, the Teatro Rossini in Lugo of Romagna, the Teatro Lauro Rossi of Macerata, the Teatro Scientifico of Mantova and the Teatro Onigo of Treviso,it is part of the most important theatrical buildings designed by the great scenographer and architect of '700 Antonio Galli da Bibbiena (1697-1774).
At the inauguration it was called Teatro dei Quattro Cavalieri, and kept it until the end of the nineteenth century, when it was dedicated to Pavese tenor Gaetano Fraschini.

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