OPERA coop. soc. ONLUS

What OPERA coop. soc. ONLUS does

OPERA Società Cooperativa Sociale ONLUS Soc. Coop. p.a. is an Italian Type B Social Cooperative founded in 2012 through the merger of seven cooperative entities (Zanzibar, Servizipiù, Artes, ECSTRA, Iside, Comedia, and Talea), operating exclusively in the Marche region. As a Type B cooperative under Italian Law 381/91, its statutory mission is the integration of disadvantaged persons into the workforce, which it pursues while delivering professional services to public and private clients. The cooperative is structured around eight specialized business units and four consumer-facing sub-brands covering cultural heritage management, education, catering, cleaning, maintenance, logistics, organic agriculture, and bookbinding.

The cooperative's service portfolio spans the management of theaters (Teatro Sanzio di Urbino, Teatro della Fortuna di Fano, among others), museums (Museo Tattile Statale Omero, Pinacoteca Civica di Ancona, civic and archaeological museums), libraries, archaeological sites, school meal programs, public building maintenance, sanitation, and logistics, alongside consumer sub-brands Melostampo (self-publishing), Di Sana Pianta (organic produce retail), HostelOpera (a network of five sustainable tourism accommodations), and Legatoria Artigianale (bookbinding). It maintains ISO 9001, 14001, 22000, 45001, and UNI/PdR 125 certifications. In 2025, OPERA initiated the CoopAI project with Digimark S.r.l. and COOSS Marche, an EU-funded multimodal AI platform targeting ESG capacity-building in Marchigian social cooperatives.

The business model is sales-led B2G/B2B: OPERA acquires contracts primarily through direct tenders, affidamenti (service management transfers), and concessions from municipalities and public institutions, supplemented by direct consumer sales via Di Sana Pianta and HostelOpera. Pricing is quote-based and negotiated per contract under multi-year terms; no standard pricing is publicly disclosed. The cooperative maintains legal headquarters in Urbino (Via Paciotti 3) and administrative headquarters in Ancona (Via Saffi 4), with operational offices in Ascoli Piceno, Fano, and Treia. Revenue is not publicly disclosed.

Name

OPERA coop. soc. ONLUS

Legal name

OPERA SOCIETÀ COOPERATIVA SOCIALE ONLUS SOC. COOP. P.A.

Website

https://opera-coop.it

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

OPERA Società Cooperativa Sociale ONLUS is an Italian Type B social cooperative founded in 2012, operating eight service business units and four sub-brands across the Marche region, delivering cultural heritage management, education, catering, cleaning, maintenance, logistics, and sustainable tourism services primarily to municipal and public-sector clients.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Social Cooperative Facility Services

NAICS

Theater Companies and Dinner Theaters (71111), Performing Arts Companies (7111)

SIC

Services-Amusement & Recreation Services (7900), Services-Miscellaneous Amusement & Recreation (7990)

akta.pro primary industry

Performing Arts & Cultural Event Venues (Theaters, Museums) (THAHAAAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Performing Arts Organizations (Theater, Dance, Opera, Music) (BPAGAHAB), Theater, Musicals & Performing Arts (THAJAFAB)

Keywords

• Social cooperative services
• Cultural heritage management
• Municipal facility services
• Collective catering services
• Sustainable tourism accommodation

Headquarters

HQ city

Urbino

HQ country

Italy

HQ region

Europe

Offices6 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Cultural and Tourism Services: Managing theaters, museums, libraries, archaeological sites and historical venues with professional reception, ticketing, bookshop and guided tour services for public entities and private organizations through direct management via affidamenti and concessions.
2. Educational and Didactic Services: Developing educational pathways and workshops for schools of all levels, with a didactic catalog featuring activities tailored to each managed location including theaters, museums, libraries, archaeological sites, natural areas, and laboratories.
3. Catering and School Meals: Managing collective catering services including school kitchens, meal distribution and bar management. Services include full service management, partial management, and subcontracting arrangements with various municipalities in Marche.
4. Cleaning and Sanitation Services: Professional cleaning and sanitation for civil, industrial and healthcare environments including schools, offices, hospitals and public spaces with certified protocols and equipment.
5. Maintenance and Urban Hygiene Services: Ordinary and extraordinary maintenance for public and private buildings, green area maintenance, urban hygiene, street sweeping, ecological island management, and kennel custody services for municipalities.
6. Logistics and Transportation Services: Logistics services, transport and handling of goods, ticketing management for theaters, museums and events, auxiliary business services, and custody and surveillance services.
7. Organic Agricultural Production: Cultivating agricultural lands in Marche using certified organic methods, producing healthy organic fruit and vegetables. Direct sales through DiSana Pianta retail point.
8. Bookbinding and Artisan Services: Artisanal and industrial bookbinding, assembly and packaging services, self-publishing services. Serving law firms, notarial offices, courts, universities, municipalities, private companies and independent authors.
9. Hostel and Tourism Accommodation: Managing a network of hostels across the Marche territory for responsible and sustainable tourism, including Campo Rotundi, Casa dell'Elce, Rifugio Cupi di Visso, Ospitale San Francesco, and Rifugio Colle le Cese.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

OPERA is a Type B Italian social cooperative operating since 2012 through eight specialized business units delivering integrated services to public and private entities in the Marche region. Core offerings include cultural and tourism management (theaters, museums, libraries, archaeological sites), educational and didactic services, collective catering and school meals, professional cleaning and sanitation, building and urban maintenance, logistics, organic agriculture, artisanal bookbinding, and sustainable tourism hostels.

Product overview

OPERA is a Type B Social Cooperative operating in the Marche region since 2012, offering an integrated portfolio of services through eight specialized business units. The offering is organized as a multi-service platform encompassing cultural and tourism management (Cultura e Turismo including theater, museum, and library management), educational services (Didattica), catering (Mense), cleaning and sanitation (Pulizie), maintenance and urban hygiene (Manutenzione), logistics (Logistica), and specialized production activities. The portfolio includes distinct product sub-brands: Melostampo (self-publishing and printing), Di Sana Pianta (organic agricultural products), HostelOpera (sustainable tourism accommodations), and Legatoria Artigianale (bookbinding services). The CoopAI platform represents their digital innovation initiative, combining AI technologies with educational approaches for ESG development in social cooperatives. The cooperative integrates people, projects, ideas, and skills to develop solutions generating positive economic and social impact.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Melostampo: Self-publishing service for books, combining editing, graphic design, printing, and binding services with online platform support.
• Di Sana Pianta
• HostelOpera
• Legatoria Artigianale

Products and services

• Cultura e Turismo Management of theaters, museums, libraries, archaeological sites and historical venues, including professional reception, ticketing, bookshop operations, and guided tour services for public entities and private organizations.
• Didattica Educational pathways and hands-on workshops for schools of all levels covering history, art, science, environment and territory of the Marche region, with customizable learning experiences at cultural sites.
• Mense (School Meals and Catering) Collective catering services including management of school kitchens, meal preparation, distribution, transport, auxiliary restaurant services, and bar management in cultural facilities throughout the Marche territory.
• Pulizie (Cleaning Services) Professional cleaning and sanitation services for civil, industrial and healthcare environments including schools, offices, hospitals, public spaces, and transportation vehicles using certified protocols and equipment.
• Manutenzione (Maintenance Services) Ordinary and extraordinary maintenance of public and private buildings, green area care, gardening, pruning, urban hygiene, street sweeping, ecological island management, and kennel custody services for municipalities.
• Logistica (Logistics Services) Transport and handling of goods, ticketing management for theaters, museums and events, auxiliary business services, and custody and surveillance of facilities for public entities and private organizations.
• Melostampo (Self-Publishing and Printing) Self-publishing service for independent authors and small publishers combining editing, graphic design, printing, binding, and packaging, including assembly and packaging for third parties.
• Di Sana Pianta (Organic Agriculture) Cultivation of agricultural lands in the Marche region using certified organic methods without chemical pesticides or fertilizers, with direct sales of fresh, seasonal, zero-kilometer fruit and vegetables.
• HostelOpera (Sustainable Tourism Network) Network of hostels and sustainable tourism accommodations throughout the Marche region, including Ostello Terre Campi Rotondi, Ostello Casa dell'Elce, Rifugio Cupi di Visso, Ospitale San Francesco, and Rifugio Colle le Cese.
• Legatoria Artigianale (Artisanal Bookbinding) Artisanal and industrial bookbinding for books, manuals, university theses, notary documents and public entities, offering traditional and spiral binding, fasciculation, lamination, embossing, hot stamping, and book restoration.
• CoopAI Platform AI-powered educational platform for ESG development in social cooperatives, combining multimodal AI capabilities with humanistic approaches to support cooperatives in operating efficiently, reacting to emerging challenges in real time, and maintaining competitive advantage.

Quantifiable outcome

• Certified organic agricultural production with km zero product distribution
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers20 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability2 records

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Digimark S.r.l.coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Digimark S.r.l. is the lead partner (capofila) in the CoopAI project, a research and development initiative developing AI-powered tools for ESG development in social cooperatives. OPERA is a project partner alongside COOSS Marche, with total project budget of €566,097.50 and EU funding of €362,492.48 from PR MARCHE FESR 2021/2027.
• COOSS Marche Onlus Società Cooperativa per AzionicoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCOOSS Marche is a partner with OPERA in the CoopAI project alongside Digimark S.r.l., focused on developing AI educational tools for ESG dimensions in Marche social cooperatives. The three-organization consortium combines expertise in technology, social cooperative operations, and territorial presence.
• CoopculturecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCoopculture is OPERA's partner in an Associazione Temporanea d'Impresa (ATI) for managing services at the Museo Tattile Statale Omero in Ancona. The partnership handles technical services, reception, communication, education department, guided tours, workshops and cultural events.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Coopculture: Italian cooperative society specializing in cultural heritage services including museum and archaeological-site management. Direct peer because OPERA partners with Coopculture in an ATI at Museo Tattile Statale Omero and competes for the same cultural-management affidamenti in Italian public-sector tenders.
• COOSS Marche: Marche-region Type B social cooperative providing social, educational, and healthcare services, and partner with OPERA on the CoopAI project. Direct peer because it operates under the same Law 381/91 framework, serves overlapping regional public-sector clients, and shares social-cooperative governance.
• Opera Laboratori Fiorentini: Florence-based cultural-services cooperative providing museum management, bookshop services, exhibition organization, and cultural venue operations. Direct peer because it shares OPERA's cooperative model, cultural-management focus, and reliance on Italian public-sector affidamenti.
• Zètema Progetto Cultura: Rome-based company wholly owned by Roma Capitale that manages cultural venues, museums, theaters, and tourist services for the municipality. Direct peer because it competes with OPERA in the same managed-venue/ticketing/guided-tour value chain across Italian public-sector clients.

Others

• Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi: Florentine foundation managing a major cultural venue with public-private partnership expertise. Adjacent peer because it represents the type of culturally-rooted public-facing organization OPERA aspires to operate more of, though it operates as a foundation rather than a cooperative.
• Melampo: Italian publishing services provider offering editing, printing, and bookbinding solutions. Adjacent peer because it overlaps with OPERA's Melostampo and Legatoria Artigianale sub-brands in self-publishing and artisanal bookbinding.

Broad incumbents

• Rekeep: Italian-listed facility management group (formerly Manutencoop) providing cleaning, maintenance, and integrated building services to public and private clients. Broad incumbent because it overlaps with OPERA's Pulizie and Manutenzione units at much larger scale.
• Civita Cultura: Established Italian cultural-services operator providing museum management, exhibition design, and cultural venue operations across multiple regions. Broad incumbent because it offers overlapping capabilities to OPERA but at a national scale and through a wider portfolio.
• Consorzio Nazionale Servizi (CNS): Italian cooperative consortium providing facility management, cleaning, and ancillary public-sector services nationwide. Broad incumbent because it competes with OPERA in cleaning and facility services for municipalities but operates at far larger scale across multiple Italian regions.

Regional players

• Solco: Network of Italian social cooperatives operating primarily in northern Italy, offering social and facility services to public entities. Regional player because it competes with OPERA in the cooperative-led public-services market but operates in different Italian geographies.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/operacooperativasociale
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/operacoop.soc.onlus

Compliance5 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

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