Considerations about the acoustical properties of Teatro Nuovo in Spoleto after the restauration works Free

In 2003 the municipality of Spoleto decided to stop the performances within the Teatro Nuovo, among the others also of "Two World Annual Festival", as it was necessary to modify some material, repair the floor, refurbish pictures and so on: the first author was charged with all the acoustical aspects and he decided to perform extensive acoustical measurements. During this measurement campaign, a flutter echo was detected in the stalls, so it became necessary to detect the origin of this problem, then to find some modification able to remove this problem: we have already presented our studies on this subject, from which a new design of the orchestra pit was derived. For fire safety reasons it was necessary also to remove some elastic panels from the boxes, and an acoustically equivalent technical solution was adopted. Even the stalls floor was removed and a new solution was adopted incorporating the heating plant and an acoustical solution. In this paper we will present the results of measurements performed after the opening of the theatre (a typical Italia Opera House of the end of the Eighteen Century) and some consideration about the acoustical results so obtained.