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  2. Teatro San Cassiano - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Opera house - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. 1637 in music - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Italian opera - Wikipedia

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    His first success was an "opera buffa" (comic opera), La cambiale di matrimonio (1810). His reputation still survives today through his Barber of Seville (1816), and La Cenerentola (1817). But he also wrote serious opera, Tancredi (1813) and Semiramide (1823).

  6. Claudio Monteverdi - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  7. List of theatres and opera houses in Venice - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. History of opera - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. L'incoronazione di Poppea - Wikipedia

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    When the first public opera house in the world opened in Venice in 1637, Monteverdi, by then in his 70th year, returned to writing full-scale opera. He may have been influenced by the solicitations of Giacomo Badoaro , an aristocratic poet and intellectual who sent the elderly composer the libretto for Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (The return ...