Teatro Comunale dei Rinnovati Siena

Located inside the Palazzo Comunale of Siena, the theater was built around 1560 by Bartolomeo Neroni, known as Riccio. Originally belonging to the Accademia degli Intronati, it later passed to the Accademia dei Filomati and only in 1802 to the Accademia dei Rinnovati, the theater was rebuilt several times following some unfortunate events that destroyed its original structure. Among the architects who took care of its reconstruction we mention Antonio Galli Bibiena, belonging to the famous family of architects and set designers who, from the end of the seventeenth century until around 1780, influenced, with their creations, the concept of the stage space in Italy. Having abandoned the traditional U-shape of the hall in favor of more flared solutions, preferred for acoustic reasons, the Bibiena family recovered the traditional scenographic paraphernalia in a more organic way, also providing for the creation of functional spaces for equipment and staff.
Despite subsequent renovations by nineteenth-century architects such as Agostino Fantastici and Alessandro Doveri, the theater still retains the traditional bell-shaped plan with four tiers of boxes typical of the neoclassical taste of the second half of the eighteenth century.
Today, thanks to a major restoration project that lasted more than five years, the Teatro dei Rinnovati has returned to its ancient splendor. The works have guaranteed the conservative restoration and functional improvement of the building, bordering the Palazzo Pubblico. The structure, now in line with the most recent technologies and safety regulations, is able to host prose and opera performances, with over six hundred seats, distributed between the stalls and the eighty-eight boxes. The official inauguration of the new face of the Teatro dei Rinnovati took place on June 3, 2009, with the staging of Gl'Ingannati, an anonymous comedy composed by several hands by the Accademici Intronati in the first half of the sixteenth century.

Technical sheet of the structure