Teatro Sant'Apollinare
The Teatro Sant'Apollinare was an opera house opened in Venice in 1651 . It was in a patrician house, which was converted back into a residential building in 1661.
It was directed by the impresario Giovanni Faustini , who was Francesco Cavalli's librettist . The first performance of La Calisto by Cavalli and Faustini took place in the opening year 1651, but he died in the month after the first performance. Then his brother Marco Faustini took over the management. Although it was considered the smallest public opera house in Venice at the time, it had stage machinery of the highest technical standard.
Several world premieres of Cavalli operas took place here. It was on today's Corte Petriana in the San Polo district , like most theaters in Venice, named after a nearby church, here San Apollinare (although San Polo is closer).
literature
- Jane Alison Glover : The Theater Sant'Apollinare and the Development of Seventeenth-Century Venetian Opera. 1975, (Oxford, St. Hugh's College - University of Oxford, Dissertation, 1975).
- Franco Mancini, Maria Teresa Muraro, Elena Povoledo: Venezia - teatri effimeri e nobili imprenditori (= I teatri del Veneto. Vol. 1, 1). Corbo e Fiore et al., Venice 1995, ISBN 88-7086-071-X .
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Coordinates: 45 ° 26 ′ 12.6 ″ N , 12 ° 19 ′ 52.2 ″ E