Teatro Sant'Angelo
The Teatro Sant'Angelo (sometimes erroneously: Teatro San Angelo ) was a theater and opera house in Venice that opened in 1677 (architect Francesco Santurini) and existed until 1803. Many of the operas by Antonio Vivaldi were premiered here, who also directed it musically and temporarily as impresario . It was located on the Grand Canal near the Rialto Bridge. It was run by the Marcello and Capello families, who previously had town houses there.
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The Teatro Sant'Angelo was the last of the independent large public opera houses of the 17th century, which were built in the early days of the opera in Venice and survived until the first years of the 19th century. It started with the Teatro San Cassiano (which was still in a private house) in 1637, the Teatro Santi Giovanni e Paolo in 1639, the Teatro San Salvador 1661, and the Teatro San Giovanni Crisostomo in 1667. The Teatro San Samuele was founded in 1655, but played initially plays. They were mostly named after the church district. The Sant'Angelo was one of the smaller opera houses. It had 136 boxes.
The entrance fees of the Venetian opera houses were usually 2 lire (which remained the same until around 1770), of which the theaters could not exist - leasing of boxes to wealthy families and people was an essential source of income. It was played during the carnival (December 26th to March 30th), later came the Ascension Day (second Easter day until June 15th) and an autumn season (September 1st to November 30th). The operas were dimly lit. Most of the audience had candles to read the text.
The first opera performed here was Helena rapita da Paride by Domenico Freschi (1677), followed by operas by Francesco Gasparini , Tomaso Albinoni and Giovanni Bononcini , Antonio Lotti , Baldassare Galuppi and Vivaldi, who premiered his second opera Orlando finto pazzo here in 1714 . 43 operas had been released by 1700 alone. Many successful plays by Carlo Goldoni have also been played, thanks to his close association with the comedian (Capocomico) Girolamo Medebach (1706–1790).
In 1803, like other theaters in Venice, it was closed under Napoleonic occupation, it was used as a warehouse and, after renovation, the Palazzo Barocci (now a four-star hotel).
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Individual evidence
- ^ Operas by Vivaldi with premieres , operons
- ↑ Kretzschmar, Geschichte der Oper, Leipzig 1919, p. 82, Archives , counts on the Teatro San Moisè 1639 to 1679, the Sant'Apollinare 1651 to 1660, the Teatro di Salvoni 1670 to 1689 (with interruptions), and the Teatro Novissimo from 1641 to 1647
- ↑ Il Alberto Camerini, Teatro S. Angelo ed Antonio Vivaldi.
- ^ Hermann Kretzschmar, History of the Opera, p. 82
Coordinates: 45 ° 26 ′ 8.1 ″ N , 12 ° 19 ′ 49.3 ″ E