Category:Teatro San Cassiano

Teatro San Cassiano 

opera house in Venice, Italy
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Instance of	opera house
Location	Venice, Metropolitan City of Venice, Veneto, Italy
Date of official opening	1637
Date of official closure	1812
45° 26′ 18.64″ N, 12° 19′ 49.33″ E
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The Teatro San Cassiano (or Teatro di San Cassiano and other variants) in Venice was the world’s first public opera theatre, inaugurated as such in 1637. The first mention of its construction dates back to 1581.[1] The name with which it is best known comes from the parish in which it was located, San Cassiano (Saint Cassian), in the Santa Croce district (‘sestiere’) not far from the Rialto. The entire building was demolished in 1812 to make room for houses. Today, the area of the Teatro San Cassiano has become the Albrizzi garden. In 2017 an project, conceived by the English entrepreneur and musicologist Paul Atkin, was announced to reconstruct in Venice the Teatro San Cassiano of 1637 as faithfully as academic research and traditional craftmanship will allow, complete with period stage machinery and moving scene-sets. The project aims to establish the reconstructed Teatro San Cassiano as a world-renowned centre for the research, the exploration and staging of historically-informed Baroque opera.