Teatro La Fenice, a privately owned entity headquartered in Italy, was inaugurated on May 16, 1792. The company has a notable history of reconstruction, having risen twice from its ashes and water. Functioning as a prominent opera house, it has hosted and continues to host numerous world premieres of operas by composers such as Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Britten, Nono, Maderna, and more recently, Kagel, Guarnieri, Mosca, Ambrosini, and Perocco.