The 1937 Palazzo del Cinema on the Lido is the home of the Venice International Film Festival, the world's oldest, with the Sala Grande where the Golden Lion films premiere each late summer.
Venice's opera house, opened in 1792 and twice rebuilt after fire (most recently in 2003), premiered operas by Rossini, Bellini and Verdi including La traviata and Rigoletto.
A historic city-center cinema near Campo Manin, reopened as a three-screen cinema, that carries Venice Film Festival titles into the city after the Lido.
