San Benedetto Theater

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Teatro San Benedetto in Venice on January 22nd, 1782, at the festival in honor of Tsarevich Conti di Nord
Stage design by Francesco Bagnara for the production of Rossini's L'italiana in Algeri 1826

The Teatro San Benedetto was a theater in Venice , parts of which still exist today.

history

The small theater was built by Michele Grimani of the Grimani family on land owned by the Venier and Tiepolo families and was intended to serve as a smaller theater to replace the family's San Giovanni Crisostomo . It was inaugurated on December 26, 1755 with a performance of Gioacchino Cocchi's opera Zoe . In 1766 San Benedetto became the property of a consortium of the Grimani family .

The original design of the theater was circular. However, after a fire in February 1774, it was rebuilt in the traditional shape of a horseshoe. The architect was Pietro Checchia. After a legal dispute, the owners, a consortium of box owners who took over the theater from the Grimanis, had to give the theater to the Venier family in 1786. The old owners later founded their own theater, La Fenice , which opened in 1792 and which replaced San Benedetto as Venice's main opera. The Teatro San Benedetto became the Teatro Venier (or Teatro Venier in San Benedetto ) after the change of ownership in 1787 . In 1810 it was taken over by the entrepreneur Giovanni Gallo and it was called the Teatro Gallo . In 1847 it was renamed again and from 1868 onwards it was named after this Teatro Rossini in honor of Rossini , as his operas L'italiana in Algeri and Eduardo e Cristina had premiered here. But the glorious days of the theater as an opera house were numbered.

Verdi's La traviata was successfully performed here in 1854, after the piece had suffered a fiasco a year earlier at the world premiere at La Fenice.

In 1937 the building was completely renovated and then served as a cinema for 70 years , with a new facade designed by the Italian architect Carlo Scarpa . The cinema was only closed in 2007. It is currently in the state of a restoration project funded by the city of Venice.

World premieres

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sesostri by Baldassare Galuppi , world premiere Teatro Grimani Venice - libretto

Coordinates: 45 ° 26 ′ 7.8 ″  N , 12 ° 19 ′ 57 ″  E