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The first information relating to a theatre on this site dates back to 1581. The Tron family theatre for commedie is referenced both in a letter sent by Ettore Tron to Duke Alfonso II d’Este, dated 4 January 1580 more veneto (i.e., 1581), and in Francesco Sansovino’s, Venetia città nobilissima et singolare, [5] in which two theatres in the parish of San Cassiano are mentioned: according ...
The Teatro San Cassiano in Venice was the world's first public opera house, inaugurated as such in 1637. [9] In the 17th and 18th centuries, opera houses were often financed by rulers, nobles, and wealthy people who used patronage of the arts to endorse their political ambition and social position.
The first public opera house, Teatro San Cassiano, opens in Venice. Johann Jakob Froberger travels to Rome to study under Girolamo Frescobaldi. Delphin Strungk becomes organist at the Marienkirche in Brunswick. Robert Ramsey, organist of Trinity College, Cambridge, becomes Master of the Children at the college. Antonio Cesti joins the ...
Opera took an important new direction when it reached the republic of Venice. It was here that the first public opera house, the Teatro di San Cassiano, was opened in 1637 by Benedetto Ferrari and Francesco Manelli. Its success moved opera away from aristocratic patronage and into the commercial world.
In the middle decades of the 17th century the major opera-producing center was Venice, the first place where music was detached from religious or aristocratic protection to be performed in public places: in 1637 the Teatro San Cassiano was founded (demolished in 1812), the first opera center in the world, located in a palace that belonged to ...
The opening of the opera house of San Cassiano in 1637, the first public opera house in Europe, stimulated the city's musical life [49] and coincided with a new burst of the composer's activity. The year 1638 saw the publication of Monteverdi's eighth book of madrigals and a revision of the Ballo delle ingrate .
La Fenice – Venice's leading opera house. The first theatre was built in 1792 and the current structure opened in 2003. [3]Teatro Goldoni 1622–present. Originally the Teatro Vendramin di San Salvador (in Venetian dialect) [4] or Teatro San Salvatore, 1622, renamed Teatro San Luca, then Teatro Apollo in 1833, and from 1875 til now Teatro Goldoni, today home to a theatre company Teatro ...
1637: Shimabara Rebellion of Japanese Christians, rōnin and peasants against Edo. 1637: The first opera house, Teatro San Cassiano, opens in Venice. 1637: Qing dynasty attacked the Joseon dynasty. 1639: Naval Battle of the Downs – Republic of the United Provinces fleet decisively defeats a Spanish fleet in English waters.