Teatro Verdi

This guide to Teatro Verdi in Pisa turns on a joke Gioachino Rossini made about his own opera Guglielmo Tell, the four-hour work that opened this theatre on the twelfth of November, eighteen sixty-seven. It lingers on a stranger fact: Rossini was only thirty-seven, already opera's most famous composer, when he finished that opera and simply stopped writing for the stage. The guide follows what filled the four decades of life still ahead of him. Look for the door on the left of the entrance loggia, not the one to the box office.