Teatro San Moisè

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Courtyard of the Teatro San Moisè

The Teatro San Moisè was an opera house in Venice that lasted from 1640 to 1818. It was in an outstanding location near the Palazzo Giustiniani and the Church of San Moisè at the beginning of the Grand Canal .

history

The theater was built by the San Bernaba branch of the Giustiniani family. The first production was the now-lost opera L'Arianna by Claudio Monteverdi in 1640 . The house then passed into the hands of the Zane family and was used by the Ferrari company. Monteverdi's librettist Giovanni Faustini was one of the first impresarios of this theater.

From the beginning, the San Moisè was one of the smaller theaters in Venice and at the same time one of the most influential. In 1668 the number of seats was increased to 800. In 1674 it was revived by the impresario Francesco Santurini, who caused a real upheaval by halving the price of tickets at 2 lire. This ultimately even led to a box-office success, which triggered a veritable opera enthusiasm and caused the establishment of further active theaters in the city.

During the early 18th century, Francesco Gasparini , Antonio Vivaldi and Tomaso Albinoni were active here in San Moisè. During the 1740s, the Neapolitan opera buffa reached Venice and San Moisè was one of the first houses to focus on this genre, notably through works by Baldassare Galuppi , which he created in collaboration with Carlo Goldoni . In the 1770s and 1780s the theater was dominated by the prolific librettist Giovanni Bertati , who was to briefly become Poeta de 'cesari teatri in Vienna between 1793 and 1794 and who directed the Teatro San Moisè between 1772 and 1787. At that time the repertoire focused on drammi giocosi by Pasquale Anfossi , Antonio Salieri , Giovanni Paisiello and other composers.

The San Moisè was finally closed in previous years in 1818 after the presentation of a series of farsi by Gioachino Rossini , whose second opera La cambiale di matrimonio premiered here in 1810. It was first used as a puppet theater and then converted into the Teatro Minerva. Until the end of the 20th century, the building complex was partly used for commercial purposes and partly as a residential building. On July 19, 1896, the Lumière brothers' first public film screening in Venice took place here.

World premieres (selection)

Part of the ceiling fresco owned by the Teatro San Moisè

See also

literature

  • Luca Zoppelli: Venice. In: Stanley Sadie (Ed.): The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Volume 4: Roe - Z, Appendices. Macmillan et al., London et al. 1998, ISBN 0-333-73432-7 , pp. 913 ff.
  • Myron Schwager: Public opera and the trials of the Teatro San Moisè. In: Early Music. Vol. 14, No. 3, 1986, ISSN  0306-1078 , pp. 387-396, doi : 10.1093 / earlyj / 14.3.387 .
  • Stephan Burianek: The Venetian Opera in the 17th Century. (see web link).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Luca Zoppelli: Venice. In: Stanley Sadie (Ed.): The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Volume 4: Roe - Z, Appendices. Macmillan et al., London et al. 1998, ISBN 0-333-73432-7 , pp. 913 ff.

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Coordinates: 45 ° 25 ′ 59 ″  N , 12 ° 20 ′ 10 ″  E