The temple of Florentine music, home of the Maggio Musicale, which, like its twinned city Salzburg holds the oldest and most important Festival in Europe, further supported by concert and opera seasons of the highest quality. Teatro Comunale was originally the Politeama Fiorentino, designed by Telemaco Bonaiutiin 1862, an open air arena which was to give birth to the conformation of a huge auditorium, a single tier of boxes and two large amphitheatre-like semicircular galleries that can seat about 2000 people. The Piccolo Teatro of the Comunale, situated on one side of the main auditorium; is a really up-to-date ‘small theatre’, capable of seating about 600 spectators.

The stage of the Comunale has borne witness to the triumph of some of the most famous names in music of our times, among them conductors like Vittorio Gui, Bruno Walter, Dimitri Mitropoulos; the wonderful voice of Maria Callas made its debut here,while Pietro Mascagni, Richard Strauss, Igor Stravinsky and Luciano Berio and many others came to interpret their own compositions.