Canobbiana Theater

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Teatro della Canobbiana, floor plan
Teatro Lirico, facade after renovation (2019)
Teatro Lirico, back side after renovation (2019)
Giuseppe Frezzolini in 1832 as Dulcamara in the love potion
Modernized auditorium (1938)

The Teatro della Cannobiana (sometimes called La Cannobiana , later also Teatro lirico di Milano ) is a theater in Milan .

history

In 1717 the Teatro Regio Ducale was built in a wing of the Palazzo Reale in Milan , which burned down several times and was rebuilt, but was completely destroyed by a fire on February 25, 1776.

Maria Theresa's son Archduke Ferdinand suggested equipping the city of Milan with two theaters: With the main theater ("noble") near the courtyard in the area of ​​the desecrated church of Santa Maria alla Scala, today's Teatro alla Scala should be built. The second ("more popular") should be built in the area of ​​the Cannobian schools (the name comes from Paolo da Cannobio). The Scala was considered a “big” theater, the other theater was subordinate to it in rank. Both construction projects, which are similar in the typology of the Italian theater in their horseshoe-shaped floor plan as well as the rows of boxes and galleries, were designed by the royal architect Giuseppe Piermarini .

The new theater "la Cannobiana" was inaugurated on the evening of August 21, 1779 (one year after the Teatro alla Scala) with an opera by Antonio Salieri and. 1832 was here love potion by Gaetano Donizetti premiered. For many years, both major Milanese theaters were jointly managed by the entrepreneurs.

With the reduction of municipal and state subsidies, the Cannobiana began to decline in 1870. The music publisher Sonzogno had it restored and changed the name to Teatro Lirico Internazionale in 1894. This theater is again an important cultural center. In 1914, at the same time as the Theater Vittorio Emanuele II in Turin, the premiere of the film Cabiria , which is considered to be the first blockbuster in cinema history, took place here . The house has been owned by the city of Milan again since 1926, but was damaged by a severe fire in 1938. The reconstruction by the architect Antonio Cassi Ramelli took place in a modernized form. Here also joined Benito Mussolini as a speaker.

After the war, opera and drama returned, and from 1960 the Piccolo Teatro by Paolo Grassi and Giorgio Strehler played here . In 1999 the theater had to close due to financial difficulties. In 2003 the closed theater was dedicated to Cantautore and actor Giorgio Gaber , who died in the same year .

In 2015 the city administration awarded a construction contract worth 8 million euros for the renovation of the theater. Work started in 2016. Due to unforeseen problems during construction, such as the removal of large quantities of asbestos and a legal dispute with the operating company, the opening date had to be postponed several times. The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in further delays. The last smaller work should be completed in spring 2021. The construction costs had risen in the meantime to almost 12 million euros. With the opening planned for 2021, the Teatro della Canobbiana will officially be renamed Teatro Giorgo Gaber .

World premieres

Web links

Commons : Teatro della Canobbiana  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Teatro della Canobbiana
  2. ↑ Il Teatro Lirico: una vecchia gloria scomparsa da più di 17 anni! In: milanoalquadrato.com. December 31, 2016, accessed February 23, 2021 (Italian).
  3. ↑ Milano, su il sipario: rinasce il Lirico. Via al restauro del teatro da 16 anni nell'abbandono. In: repubblica.it. November 5, 2015, accessed February 23, 2021 (Italian).
  4. ↑ Teatro Lirico, slittano ancora i lavori. Ed è ancora incerto il store. In: milanotoday.it. May 29, 2019, accessed February 23, 2021 (Italian).
  5. ^ Teatro Lirico, modifica ai lavori in extremis per adeguarlo al Covid. In: milanotoday.it. January 29, 2021, accessed February 23, 2021 (Italian).

Coordinates: 45 ° 27 ′ 41.4 ″  N , 9 ° 11 ′ 30.6 ″  E