Rome Opera House (Teatro dell'Opera di Roma) Tours and Tickets

The Rome Opera House (Teatro dell'Opera di Roma) offers guided tours of its interior every day except Mondays. Tours are in Italian and English, last for one hour, and can be booked at the on-site box office. The venue also features as a stop for many hop-on, hop-off bus routes.

You do need ticket reservations for Rome Opera House shows. You can book online and select your own seats or have seats automatically allocated based on your price bracket—prices vary considerably. The balcony sometimes has restricted views, so keep that in mind.

There’s no strict dress code for the Rome Opera House; if you show up in sneakers, you won’t be turned away at the door. (Rome is far less stuffy than its northern neighbors, including Milan.) That said, Romans do tend to go for gold on opera nights, and evening dress is expected for openings and premieres.

That depends. While most kids probably won’t have the patience to spend several hours listening to opera performances in Italian or German, the Rome Opera House offers some family-friendly programs. The venue even hosts special sleepover field trips for Roman schoolchildren.

No, you can’t take photos in the Rome Opera House—cameras and video or audio recording equipment are strictly forbidden during performances. Photographing the show is never allowed, whether or not you use flash. Likewise, mobile phones shouldn’t be used within the auditorium; all shows feature an announcement to turn off phones.

That depends. The best time to visit the Rome Opera House depends on whether you’d like to attend a show within the venue—performances are hosted here from around November to June. The summer months see performances move outdoors to the Baths of Caracalla (Terme di Caracalla), which is an ancient Roman bathhouse located near Circus Maximus.