Where the tradition begins with value and history

The Theater, one of the oldest and most astonishing in Northern , was inaugurated in 1813, the year best known to music lovers for the birth of Richard Wagner and Giuseppe Verdi. The construction work began in 1811 and the project was assigned to the architect Giuseppe Cusi.

Teatro Sociale is also known with the nickname of “Piccola Scala”, since it hosted the activities of Teatro alla Scala, after the bombing of 1943.

In , over the centuries, great singers and musicians performed: from Giuditta Pasta and Maria Malibran to Toti Dal Monte, Simionato, Favero, Pagliughi, Cigna, Barbieri, Carosio, Caniglia, Zeani, Scotto, Olivero, Kabaivanska, Devia, and Tamagno, Gigli, Pertile, Schipa, Merli, Filippeschi, Del Monaco, Tagliabue, Pasero, Bechi, Poggi, Stabile, Bastianini, Rossi Lemeni, Bruscantini, Di Stefano, Bergonzi, Kraus, Dara, Giacomini, Nucci, to name just a few, and, among conductors, several from Arturo Toscanini to Riccardo Muti. From a glorious past to the future

From 1st January 2002 the management has passed to the AsLiCo. The Theater, open more than 300 days a year, is part of the OperaLombardia circuit, that brings together in one big opera season five opera houses of : the Fondazione Donizetti in Bergamo, the Teatro Grande in Brescia, the Sociale Como, Ponchielli of Cremona and Fraschini of Pavia.

The Competition for Young Opera Singers, which celebrated its 70th edition in 2019, has been a fundamental step, for some of the opera stars.

Among the many projects, planned to reach a new audience, holds an important record Opera Education, well known and acknowledged throughout Europe, which is divided into 5 large macro-activities: Opera -9 (for expectant mothers); Opera baby (for children from 0 to 3 years); Opera kids (for children from 3 to 6 years); Opera domani (from 6 to 14 years old, born in 1996, which reaches more than 3,000 teachers and 140,000 children each year all over Italy and abroad); from Opera it (for teenagers from 14 to 18 years). An Opera House that produces

Il viaggio a Reims o sia l’Albergo del Giglio d’Oro by Gioachino Rossini Stage Direction and Light designer, Michał Znaniecki; Scenes, Luigi Scoglio; Costumes, Anna Zwiefka; Coreography, Damian Malvacio. Co-production Teatri di OperaLombardia. An Opera House that produces

Falstaff by Giuseppe Verdi

Stage Direction, Roberto Catalano; Scenes, Emanuele Sinisi; Costumes, Ilaria Ariemme; Light designer, Fiammetta Baldiserri. Co-production Teatri di OperaLombardia, Fondazione Rete Lirica delle Marche e Teatro Marruccino di Chieti. An Opera House that produces

Ettore Majorana. Cronaca di infinite scomparse by Roberto Vetrano

World première commissioned and produced by Teatro Sociale di Como AsLiCo. Co-production Teatri di OperaLombardia. Stage Direction, Stefano Simone Pintor; Scenes and costumes, Gregorio Zurla; Lights, Fiammetta Baldiserri; Video, Studio Antimateria. An Opera House that produces

Otello by Giuseppe Verdi Stage Direction, Stefano de Luca; Scenes and costumes, Leila Fteita; Lights, Claudo De Pace. Co-production Teatri di OperaLombardia. An Opera House that produces

La traviata by Giuseppe Verdi Stage Direction, Alice Rohrwacher; Scenes, Federica Parolini; Costumes, Vera Pierantoni Giua. Co-production, Teatri di OperaLombardia, Fondazione i Teatri di Reggio Emilia e Teatro Comunale Luciano Pavarotti di Modena.

Some numbers, editions and participants: important attractor in the area

In the heart of Como, on the border between Italy and Switzerland comes to 12th edition the Festival Como Città della Musica from 26.06 to 13.07.2019: an important event for the territory with an international audience - About 7,000 attendance at shows on the bill; - About 4000 attendance at the "Around the Festival" events organized in the most exclusive and suggestive locations of the Lake (12 locations of the 2018 edition, 13 for the 2019 edition); - 80,000 or so since 2008.

Como: A city engaged

The citiziens are part of an opera production

200.Com is the acronym created to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Teatro Sociale di Como, in 2013, with an event, that could involve the whole city.

Since then, every year, 300 citizens participate in the rehearsals, and are engaged in the choir, not only giving life to a character, but giving voice to the pride of the entire city.

The Project 200.Com was awarded in 2014 with the prestigious recognition of the Opera Awards, in the Accessibility category, and in 2016 he received the Abbiati Prize, named after Filippo Siebaneck.

The places of the Festival Como Città della Musica: waiting for the festival and around the festival The festival ... invades ... the territory: an invasion of music and art

Some of the most enchanting places on Parco Quarcino di Sagnino Arena del Teatro Sociale Via Giovanni Fattori – Quarcino (Frazione Via Bellini , involved di Sagnino, Com0) Teatro Sociale di Como Hilton Lake Como Piazza Verdi Via Borgo Vico, 241 Como

Hotel Villa Flori Villa del Grumello Via 12, Como Via Cernobbio, 11

Villa Carlotta Hangar – Aero Club Como Via Regina 2, Loc. , Como Piazzale Somaini, Como

Cortile Studio Petazzi Monumento ai caduti Via Volta 68, Como Via Giancarlo Puecher

Torre del Baradello Palazzo del Broletto Via Castel Baradello, Como Piazza del Duomo, Como

Villa Bernasconi Chiostro di Sant’Abbondio Cernobbio

Villa Olmo Villa Medici Giulini Via Simone Cantoni, 1 Via Medici (Briosco)

Il Giardino della Valle Villa Galia Via , Cernobbio Passeggiata di , Como

Advanced forms of communication The Teatro Sociale di Como has always had in its strings a strong vocation to experiment and has repeatedly shown a pioneering attitude, exploring new communication techniques, conventional and unconventional. Among the latter, the TSC was among the first in Italy, more than 10 years ago, to program flash mobs in the area, or moments of interaction that had an impact on the city or on the neighboring places (for example the lake area, Lake of Como, Maggiore and Lugano; Canton Ticino). Now, these activities, which continue to distinguish the identity of the theater, its liveliness and the desire to open to ever- changing audiences, are consolidated and entered at full capacity, with a periodic schedule. Traditional communication (via press office and publishing) is normally practiced, both in Italian and in English, alongside alternative communication initiatives, always different. The communication office has been working for years on the local, national and international fronts, thanks to active participation in the Opera Europa circuit and to synergies and alliances with many European theaters and more. This is also why the TSC invests in advertising in magazines and foreign magazines, reaching a very large audience; this awareness has a not insignificant impact on the territory, and makes the TSC visible as an important tourist attraction, from the centuries-old historical and artistic heritage (over 200 years of history), with an added value, which also determines an impact on the induced area. The TSC always acts in harmony with the main local interlocutors, with whom it builds experience, cards, food and wine itineraries, packages that include the discovery of the natural heritage, of the culinary traditions, of jewels still little known, in order to enhance as much as possible all the asset. The prestige of one of the oldest theaters (1813) and of Northern Italian tradition combined to a trial both artistically that of communication so many records at European and Italian level The value of training and educating: raise awareness of beauty and music for 22 years great attention to schools and families, with a unique know-how in Italy opera education, currently declined in 5 major areas of innovation and competence: - opera minus 9 - opera baby - opera kids - opera tomorrow - opera it