Rienzi in April/May 2009 and at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and Oper Leipzig in April/May 2010. In July 2013, the bicentennial year of Wagner's birth, performances of all three of Wagner's early operas, including "Rienzi", took place for the first time at Bayreuth, at the Oberfrankenhalle. This performance trimmed some parts, including the second-act ballet. The Australian premiere was a concert performance by Melbourne Opera in December 2013, as part of the bicentennial celebrations. The opera opens with a substantial overture which begins with a trumpet call (which in act 3 we learn is the war call of the Colonna family)
The world (concert hall) by architects V. A. Butuzov, N. S. Strigalova, M. I. Bogdanov, and engineers L. Bogatkin, V. Kotov, and A. Levenshtein. During the reconstruction only the original brick walls were preserved. The new cinema "Mir" (translating as "world") was opened on February 28, 1958 as a Kinopanorama cinema. In 1960, it was converted into a larger widescreen cinema with 1,220 seats. In 2006 the cinema was again reconstructed, after which it opened as a concert hall for 923 spectators. The last reconstruction was carried out in 2017, after which the world became a concert and entertainment venue. The building is brick,