Piccolo Teatro di Milano
The Piccolo Teatro di Milano , officially Teatro d'Europa since 1991 , is a theater in Milan .
history
The theater was founded by Giorgio Strehler and Paolo Grassi in a Milan cinema and opened on May 14, 1947 with Maxim Gorki's night asylum . It was the first “Teatro Stable”, namely a standing, state-subsidized theater with a permanent ensemble .
The repertoire of the first few years included pieces by William Shakespeare and Carlo Goldoni , later also Anton Chekhov and Bertolt Brecht . The founders aimed to establish an anti-elitist popular theater that should be accessible to every citizen.
This concept has hardly changed for decades. In the performances, however, it was important to Strehler to avoid pure audience appeal. Rather, the intellectual complexity of the pieces should be conveyed.
Grassi, who managed the theater alone from 1968, was appointed director of La Scala in Milan in 1972 . The returned Strehler repeatedly left the Piccolo Teatro, not least because of lengthy disputes about a planned new building. In 1986 he founded the Scuola di Teatro as an integral part of the theater. Strehler did not live to see the opening of the new theater in January 1998. His successors were Luca Ronconi and Sergio Escobar .
literature
- Manfred Brauneck , Gérard Schneilin (ed.): Theater Lexicon 1. Terms and epochs, stages and ensembles . Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag Reinbek near Hamburg, 5th completely revised new edition August 2007, ISBN 978-3-499-55673-9
Web links
- https://www.piccoloteatro.org website of the theater (it./eng.)
Coordinates: 45 ° 27 '59.8 " N , 9 ° 11' 5.3" E