Teatro La Fenice Guided Tour

Explore Venice's Teatro La Fenice on a 1-hour guided theatre tour with auditorium, royal box, and Sale Apollinee access.

Getting started

Meet your live guide at the Teatro La Fenice entrance in Campo San Fantin at the scheduled time. After your entrance ticket is checked at the theatre door, join your group and step inside the opera house. The guided theatre tour begins promptly and runs for about 1 hour, so plan accordingly before you arrive.

What to expect

Teatro La Fenice

Teatro La Fenice is Venice's historic opera house, known for its role in major opera premieres and its story of destruction and rebirth after two fires. During this guided visit, you explore key spaces that are normally seen only by performance audiences, moving from the main auditorium to the royal box and the Sale Apollinee.

Features

• Entry to Teatro La Fenice is included with your entrance ticket, so you go directly inside with your group to start the guided theatre tour with a live guide.
• Inside the gilded auditorium, you view the tiered boxes and stage while your guide explains how world premieres by composers from Rossini to Britten were presented here.
• From the royal box, you experience the auditorium from the vantage point reserved for distinguished guests, with your guide pointing out architectural details that survived or were recreated after the theatre's reconstructions.
• In the Sale Apollinee, a suite of elegant rooms used for receptions and events, your guide shares the story of the two fires and the subsequent rebuilding that gave La Fenice, meaning "The Phoenix," its symbolic name.