List of theaters and opera houses in Venice

In Venice there were numerous theater and since the 17th century opera houses , of which today only three houses exist.

Former theaters that have been destroyed, torn down or burned down

• Teatro San Cassiano 1637-1812. The scene of the first commercial opera performances , Francesco Mannelli's Andromeda , 1637. Demolished in 1812.
• Teatro Santi Giovanni e Paolo 1638–1715, a theater owned by the Grimani family, it was located on Calle della Testa .
• Novissimo Theater 1640-1645. Lasted for six years and had six world premieres.
• Teatro San Moisè 1640-1818. Near the Palazzo Giustiniani and the Church of San Moisè at the beginning of the Grand Canal .
• Teatro SS. Apostoli , from 1648.
• Teatro ai Saloni di San Gregorio , in operation for members of the Academy of Drama since around 1650 .
• Teatro Sant'Apollinare 1651–1661.
• Teatro San Samuele 1665-1889. Founded in 1655 by the Grimani family. The theater was in use until 1889. It stood on the Rio del Duca and was torn down in 1894.
• Teatro Sant'Angelo , 1677–1803, the theater in which Antonio Vivaldi brought out most of his hundred or so operas.
• Teatro a Cannaregio , built in 1679 by the patrician Marco Morosini for the performance of the Ermelinda opera , near the Chiesa di San Giobbe .
• Teatro alle Zattere , a private theater on the promenade in Ognissanti 1679.
• Teatro Altieri , 1690, a private theater in the garden of the Princes Altieri , in which, besides the 1690 opera Gl'amori fortunati negli equivoci by Alessandro Scarlatti, only one other opera performance has survived.

• Teatro Calle dell'Oca , 1707, small theater.
• Teatro San Benedetto , from 1755. Another theater of the Grimani family, built in 1755, burned down in 1774, rebuilt. Later named Teatro Gallo after its operator, and finally named Teatro Rossini .

Theaters that still exist today

• Teatro La Fenice - Venice's premier opera house. First built and opened in 1792, rebuilt several times, most recently reopened in 2003 after a fire (1996).
• Teatro Goldoni since 1622 until today. Originally known as Teatro Vendramin di San Salvador, or Teatro San Salvatore, also known as Teatro San Luca, 1622, renamed Teatro San Luca, then Teatro Apollo (1833), since 1875 under the name Teatro Goldoni (Teatro Stabile di Veneto " Carlo Goldoni ").
• Teatro Malibran , originally Teatro San Giovanni Grisostomo 1678. Reopened in 2001 by President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
• Teatro Fondamenta Nuove in the Sestiere Cannaregio , built in 1998 on the northern lagoon , it serves musical and cultural purposes, also as a conference center

See also

• Music in Venice - Opera

literature

• Franco Mancini, Maria Teresa Murano, Elena Povoledo: I teatri del Veneto. Vol. 1/1. Venezia. Teatri effimeri e nobili imprenditori . Regione del Veneto / Corbo e Fiore, Mestre 1995, ISBN 88-7086-071-X
• Franco Mancini, Maria Teresa Murano, Elena Povoledo: I teatri del Veneto. Vol. 1/2. Venezia e il suo territorio. Imprese private e teatri sociali . Mestre, Regione del Veneto / Corbo e Fiore, Mestre 1996, ISBN 88-7086-076-0

Web links

Commons : Theater in Venice  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Teatro a Venezia nel Seicento on rentalinitaly.com ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Seen on June 20, 2013 (Italian). 
2. ^ Eleanor Selfridge-Field: A New Chronology of Venetian Opera and Related Genres, 1660-1760. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California 2007, ISBN 978-0-8047-4437-9 , p. 606 . Last accessed June 20, 2013.