Obihall Teatro Di Firenze

E 'dated 1978, the first season of the Teatro Tenda activities, the historic structure that once stood where there is now Obihall. A vacant lot on the right bank of the Arno became the landing point of an old green and yellow big top circus that from that moment would have stopped, for the rest of his life, to host acrobats and animals to accommodate rather actors and musicians. Thus she began, also in Florence, the "season of the tents"; that brief, magical time when all the great cities of Italy, from Rome, saw these structures arise which seemed to solve by themselves the old problem of lack of space for the show. The "tents" were an overcoming of the classic theater space that was too "plaster" for the political and social reality of those years. For rock and pop music he went to nightclubs and dance halls or, more often, they took the train and car to get the most with city structures. The tent was therefore the right space to accommodate new needs. The numerous as diverse initiatives that have occurred over the years. That tent and its interior are immortalized on the cover of Fabrizio De Andrè the now famous double album with PFM, album recorded live right in the Florentine tent in early January 1979. '92 From a change of ownership and a subsequent rotation in the management gave a strong accelerated along the path of renewal that led in 2002 to the birth of a new structure: the Saschall, became in a short time a very important point of reference for the city and the entire region. Today the theater is home to every kind of spectacle and event, music, theater, exhibition and television. To date there are more than 700,000 spectators passed. Since January 12, 2004, for the City Administration will of Florence, the street where is located the Teatro called Via Fabrizio De André: the road runs right next to Saschall, the place where the 13 and 14 January 1979 the Genoese singer-songwriter recorded the historic live album with PFM.