Teatro della Pergola
The Teatro della Pergola on Via della Pergola in the center of Florence is (as an institution) one of the oldest opera houses in Italy .
The first building was built in 1656 by the architect Ferdinando Tacca as a wooden structure and opened during the Carnival in 1657 with the opera buffa Il podestà di Colognole by Giovanni Andrea Moneglia . It was the first box theater in Italy in the shape of a horseshoe with three column-supported tiers and a gallery above. The hall holds around 1000 seats. Around 1750 the building was provided with stone walls and modernized in the 19th century with a ticket hall with granite columns in neoclassical style. The auditorium floor can be raised to stage level to transform the theater into a full-length ballroom. In 1925 the theater was declared a national monument.
Initially only used as a court theater, it was also opened for public events after 1718. Among other things, Mozart's operas were played here for the first time in Italy around 1800 , Donizetti's Parisina and Rosmonda d'Inghilterra , Verdi's Macbeth (first version 1847), Mascagnis I Rantzau and Luigi Dallapiccola's Volo di notte were premiered here.
A former ballroom, the Saloncino , seats around 324 people and is now used as a concert hall. In the basement there is a small museum about the history of the house.
curiosity
In 1834, Antonio Meucci installed one of the first telephones in the history of technology in the theater to communicate between the different floors of the house. The device still exists today.
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Coordinates: 43 ° 46 ′ 23.8 " N , 11 ° 15 ′ 39.9" E