Editing Modena (section)

===Teatro Comunale Modena===
The [[Teatro Comunale Modena]] (Community Theatre of Modena, but renamed in October 2007 as "Teatro Comunale Luciano Pavarotti") is an [[opera house]] in Modena. The idea for the creation of the present theatre dates from 1838, when it became apparent that the then-existing Teatro Comunale di via Emilia (in dual private and public ownership) was no longer suitable for staging opera.  However, this house had been the venue for presentations of all of the works of [[Donizetti]], [[Vincenzo Bellini|Bellini]] and [[Rossini]] up to this time, and a flourishing operatic culture existed in Modena.

Under the Mayor of Modena in collaboration with the [[Conservatorio dell'Illustrissima Comunità]] (Conservatory of the Most Illustrious Community), architect [[Francesco Vandelli]] was engaged to design the Teatro dell'Illustrissima Comunità, as the theatre was first called, "for the dignity of the city and for the transmission of the scenic arts".<ref>Quoted in Lynn, p.191</ref> Paid for in the manner typical of the time – from the sale of boxes – in addition to a significant gift from Duke Friedrich IV, Vandelli created a design for the new theatre combining ideas from those in [[Piacenza]], [[Mantua]], and [[Milan]], and it opened on 2 October 1841 with a performance of [[Gandini (opera composer)|Gandini]]'s ''Adelaide di Borgogna al Castello di Canossa'', an opera specially commissioned for the occasion.