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The Vendramin owned the important Teatro di San Luca or Teatro Vendramin or Teatro San Salvatore, founded in 1622 in the San Salvatore, or in Venetian dialect San Salvador district, later renamed the Teatro Apollo, and since 1875 called the Teatro Goldoni, which still thrives as the city's main theatre for plays, now in a building of the 1720s. [2]
Il teatro comico is a comedy play by Venetian playwright Carlo Goldoni.It was written in 1750. [1]The first of sixteen comedies, commissioned by Gerolamo Medebach early in 1750, the play represents an innovation in Goldoni's production.
Teatro Carlo Goldoni or Teatro Goldoni can refer to a number of theaters or opera houses in Italy, dedicated to Carlo Goldoni: Teatro Goldoni (Bagnacavallo), Province of Ravenna, Italy; Teatro Goldoni (Corinaldo), Province of Ancona, Italy; Teatro Goldoni (Florence), Region of Tuscany, Italy; Teatro Goldoni (Livorno), Region of Tuscany, Italy
It was his last DC performance before his death in 1998. In 2007, it was the venue for the first annual Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. The recipient of the first Gershwin Prize was Paul Simon. On December 28, 2018, JBG Smith sold the property to CBRE Global Investors for $376.5 million. [3]
The Knickerbocker Theatre was a movie theater located at 18th Street and Columbia Road in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, D.C. in the United States. The theater's roof collapsed on January 28, 1922, under the weight of snow from a two-day blizzard that was later dubbed the Knickerbocker storm.
Completed in 1924 at a cost of $1 million, the theater was, until its closing in 1976, one of the most elegant movie houses in Washington, D.C. In addition to the main theater auditorium, the building contained offices on the upper floors and several two-story shops along the 14th Street and Park Road frontages.
Il teatro comico, "The Comical Theatre" (1750–1751) Le femmine puntigliose , "The Obstinate Women" (1750–1751) La bottega del caffè , "The Coffee Shop" (1750–1751)
During the Washington run of Porgy and Bess in 1936, the cast, led by Todd Duncan, protested the audience's segregation. [7] Duncan stated that he "would never play in a theatre which barred him from purchasing tickets to certain seats because of his race." Management allowed for the first integrated performance at National Theatre. [8]