In 2025, the Teatro Grande offers old and new visitors a new calendar of activities and tour routes to discover the fascinating world of the Teatro Grande together once again.

The usual appointments will return with Alla scoperta del Teatro Grande, a tour that reveals the main rooms of the Teatro Grande (Statue Room, Ridotto, Great Hall and Butterfly Room) through stories and anecdotes that have made the Grande famous throughout the world. The duration of the visit is 60 minutes.
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Raccontami del Grande tours retrace the history of the Theater from the 1950s to the present. An opportunity to bring and bring back to the Grande our fathers and mothers, our grandmothers and grandfathers and relive together the memory of past years linked to this Brescian jewel. The 90-minute journey ends with a moment of conviviality over tea at the Caffè del Teatro Grande – Berlucchi.
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Tickets for the tours are already available for purchase online or at the box office. People with certified disabilities are granted a free ticket upon contacting the Teatro Grande box office. In order to make the visit as welcoming as possible and to respond to any needs or information, please write to biglietteria@teatrogrande.it. We point out that some of the spaces may not be fully accessible due to technical needs related to the Theater’s activities.

Access to the Teatro Grande is from the main entrance (Corso Zanardelli, 9) or from the accessible entrance without stairs in Piazzetta Paganora.

Please note the opening hours of the Teatro Grande Ticket Office: Tuesday through Friday from 1:30 p.m. to 7 p.m., Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.

STOP MAKING SENSE. 40 ANNIVERSARY EXPERIENCE is the special project celebrating 40 years since the release of the greatest concert film of all time, a milestone in rock documentaries, STOP MAKING SENSE by Talking Heads directed by Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demm. As part of the Stop Making Sense Tour Party in Italian clubs and theaters, the Teatro Grande will host an exclusive screening of the historic film in the Sala Grande on Tuesday, Oct. 29 at 8 p.m.

More information on this page.

Starting from September, the Teatro Grande offers the public a new calendar of activities and tours to discover the fascinating world of the Teatro Grande.

Guided tours of the spaces of the Theatre are to scheduled on Sept. 7, 8 and 22 only in Italian. If interested, please write an email to biglietteria@teatrogrande.it or purchase the tickets on vivaticket.it. 

In this second half of the year, starting from Saturday, September 7, the Caffè del Teatro Grande – Berlucchi also resumes its usual activity, which will reopen its doors every Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. (except on show days) within the charming setting of the Foyer and the historic Butterfly and Teosa rooms.

On Fridays Sept. 13 and 20, Oct. 18, and Nov. 15 and 29, the spaces of the Café will also host the popular Aperitivi in Jazz, which from 6 to 9 p.m. will feature live performances by some of the students of the Luca Marenzio Conservatory of Brescia (reservations are mandatory by calling this number +39 328 7659130).

Beginning Thursday, July 4, and until the end of the month, the Ridotto of the Teatro Grande and other spaces of the Theatre will be open with free access Thursday through Sunday, from 10:30am to 1pm and 2:30pm to 6:30pm.

Discovering Teatro Grande is our traditional guided tour, where the history of the building from its genesis as the 17th-century Accademia degli Erranti to its transformation into the Italian-style Teatro di Tradizione is told. The tour lasts 60 minutes and is available in English on Sunday 14th and Sunday 21st of July at 11am. 

Other tours, such as our Grand Tour in the backstage spaces of the Theatre and the two activities for children (Che favola di Teatro! and Caccia al tesoro del Grande) are only available in Italian.

During the summer openings, the theatre’s bookshop will be open in the Sala delle Statue, where it will be possible to purchase books, gifts and merchandise of the Teatro Grande.

The scheduled dates and times of the tours are available here.
For further information please contact the ticket office at biglietteria@teatrogrande.it.

OPEN is the Teatro Grande’s project dedicated to sensory disabilities. Since 2017, we have launched an important inclusion project under the coordination of Prof. Elena Di Giovanni of the University of Macerata. By setting ourselves the goal of opening the spaces of the Theater and improving the enjoyment of performances for audiences from the blind and deaf communities, the project has allowed over the years to welcome an increasing number of people and, since 2023, has expanded the cultural proposals to audiences with cognitive disabilities as well.

Once again this year, OPEN enables facilitated enjoyment of all performances of the Opera and Ballet Season thanks to innovative Mobile Connect technology from Sennheiser, a leading international sound company. Through a simple app installed free of charge on a mobile device, hearing-impaired spectators have the ability to autonomously modulate sound frequencies by tuning them according to their hearing abilities: assisted listening takes place with pinhead headphones, but the system can also connect to next-generation cochlear implants. The same system allows blind and visually impaired users to be able to watch performances accompanied by an audio description transmitted through headphones.

Multisensory itineraries are also organized during the performances with tactile tables of the sets, exploration of scenes and costumes, in-depth musicals with singers and Maestri at the piano and LIS tours inside the spaces of the Theater with access to the backstage, as well as an inclusive Dance Workshop aimed at young people and dedicated to the ballet Giselle.

Finally, in 2024 the course for inclusive guides is renewed, divided into two training days: Saturday, June 1 and Saturday, October 12. Designed for teenage girls and boys and adults up to 35 years of age from the deaf, hard of hearing, blind, visually impaired and cognitively disabled communities, the Course offers the opportunity to approach the world of Theater by delving into its historical-artistic aspects and the theme of inclusion in cultural venues.

A detailed calendar of events will be available soon.

As a reminder, all initiatives promoted under the OPEN Project are free of charge and there is a 50 percent discounted ticket for accompanying men and women attending Opera and Ballet performances.

The OPEN Project is implemented by the Fondazione del Teatro Grande in collaboration with associations, organizations and operators working with sensory disabilities in the area, both locally and nationally.

For information and reservations accessibilita@teatrogrande.it.

Since 2016 the Teatro Grande – along with the Province of Brescia and with the collaboration of the Fondazione Provincia di Brescia Eventi – organizes the Il Grande in Provincia project, the summer festival that brings the excellence of the Teatro Grande to the Brescia area. A great journey in music that touches fascinating historical and natural settings in the province of Brescia every year, bringing audiences even to small villages little frequented by tourism. The aim is to enhance, through music, the beauties of our territory, even the most hidden ones, and to generate opportunities of well-being for the community, which is invited to participate in the initiative free of charge.

From June 19 to September 4, the 2024 festival calendar will consist of 15 appointments, all free of charge, starting at 9 p.m. and with specific access modes for each venue.

After its extraordinary year as Italian Capital of Culture, the Il Grande in Provincia review involves 15 municipalities in 2024: Barghe, Sale Marasino, Rodengo Saiano, Brione, Lavenone, Borgo San Giacomo, Montichiari, Provaglio d’Iseo, Gardone Val Trompia, Nave, Cellatica, and Manerbio.

Methods of accessing the events of the festival are different for each event and can be consulted on the pages of the individual shows on this website, as well as and on the websites of the respective municipalities, with timely updates, even in case of bad weather.

Saturday 8 June sees the return of the great event that has made Brescia the city of Opera since 2012, marking it out as a unicum on a national level.

This year’s Festa dell’Opera, through a rich and articulated programme – which will also be developed on the preview day of Friday 7 June – will transform the city into an open-air theatre, with over 50 events – all free of charge – hundreds of artists and dozens of public and private venues that, in a single day, from dawn to midnight, will be overwhelmed and transformed by the charm of Opera.

The 2024 edition will be dedicated to the celebrations for the centenary of Giacomo Puccini’s death and for the 120th anniversary of Madama Butterfly, which found its first triumphant success in Brescia in 1904. During the day of the Festival and the preview, there will be a series of moments celebrating his most famous and performed operas, alongside more rarely performed compositions and curious stories of his connection with Brescia.

Discover the programme of Festa dell’Opera 2024!

Presented today the 2024 Opera and Ballet shows at the Teatro Grande.
Both will once again be protagonists of the traditional Season that every year brings thousands of spectators to the theatre in the autumn period through the staging of titles never performed or absent for many years from the stage of the Teatro Grande.

The opera titles on the bill this year are I Capuleti e I Montecchi by Vincenzo Bellini, La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini, Andrea Chénier by Umberto Giordano, Così fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Giselle is the Ballet that will be brought to the Grande stage by the Ballet of the National Opera of Ukraine.

All the opera titles will welcome the Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali and on stage the OperaLombardia Chorus directed by Maestros Massimo Fiocchi Malaspina and Diego Maccagnola. The Teatro Grande is in fact a partner in the OperaLombardia circuit, which constitutes a unique model on a national level for the co-production and circulation of operas. The project – supported by the Lombardy Region and the Cariplo Foundation – involves the five theatres of tradition in Lombardy (the Teatro Grande in Brescia, the Teatro Sociale in Como, the Teatro Ponchielli in Cremona, the Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo and the Teatro Fraschini in Pavia) and has as partners the Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali and the Teatro alla Scala.

As a corollary to the Season, the initiatives aimed at educating and retaining the public are confirmed: the Pazzi per l’Opera lecture series with melomaniacs who narrate the plots of Opera and outline their characteristics and distinctive elements, In diretta dalla Scala (Live from La Scala) which will offer free streaming of the 7 December premiere, and Alla Scala con il Grande, thanks to which subscribers to the Teatro Grande’s Opera and Ballet Season will be able to attend some performances at reduced prices.

For all the titles of the Opera and Ballet Season, the OPEN accessibility project will also be active, with the aim of building dialogue and encouraging the participation of blind and deaf people in the area. From this year the project also intends to touch the sphere of cognitive disabilities for a continuous increase in inclusion practices. OPEN will make all the titles in the autumn programme accessible through the use of surtitles, the creation of audio descriptions for the blind and the activation of the Sennheiser Mobile Connect assisted listening system for the hearing impaired, which will be present in the auditorium and usable from smartphones. To improve understanding of the performance, LIS videos and tactile boards will also be produced and used during the multisensory paths dedicated to each title.

The 2024 Opera and Ballet Season will benefit from the valuable support of Intesa Sanpaolo, which will once again support the Season as an Institutional Partner.

DOWNLOAD THE COMPLETE INFORMATION ON THE 2024 OPERA AND BALLET SEASON

The Grande Notte del Jazz is coming back!

The date and programme of the Teatro Grande’s event entirely dedicated to jazz music in all its nuances has been revealed today.

Get ready to experience once again this year the magical night of the jazz marathon in all, but really all, the spaces of the Teatro Grande on Saturday 6 April from 5.30pm to half past midnight.

DOWNLOAD THE COMPLETE PROGRAM OF THE GRANDE NOTTE DEL JAZZ 2024

Tickets and tours go on sale from Saturday 23 March at the Teatro Grande box office and online.
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