Canaletto's 1740 depiction of the Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo, where the Teatro Novissimo once stood. It was demolished in 1647.
The Teatro Novissimo was a theatre in Venice located in the Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo with its entrance on the Calle de Mendicanti. It was the first theatre built in Venice specifically for the performance of opera. Because it was purpose-built, it had a wider stage than its existing competitors which allowed for the elaborate productions which became the Novissimo's hallmark. The theatre opened in the Carnival season of 1641 with the premiere of Sacrati's opera La finta pazza. After its last production in 1645, the theatre was closed amidst mounting debts and was demolished in 1647.[1][2][3]
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^Schwager, Myron (August 1986) "Public opera and the trials of the Teatro San Moisè". Early Music, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 387-396. Retrieved 31 July 2017 (subscription required).
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premiere in Venice during the Carnival season of 1641 inaugurated the TeatroNovissimo. It became one of the most popular operas of the seventeenth century...
century. It was first performed at the inauguration in 1641 of the TeatroNovissimo in Venice, the first time ever a building was created specifically...
an important role in the early history of opera. He wrote for the TeatroNovissimo in Venice as well as touring his operas throughout Italy. His most...
the Grimani family on the Calle della Testa. TeatroNovissimo 1640–1645. Six seasons, six operas. Teatro San Moisè 1640–1818. Near the Palazzo Giustinian...
opening of the Teatro Santi Giovanni e Paolo in 1639 (La Delia, music by Francesco Manelli), and for the 1641 opening of the TeatroNovissimo (La finta pazza...
di Peleo) soon after the first public opera house opened in Venice, the Teatro San Cassiano. He established so great a reputation that he was summoned...
theatre in Venice from the 1630s onward, founding its own theatre, the TeatroNovissimo, which flourished briefly between 1641 and 1645. In their librettos...
of La delia, Giulio Strozzi, became primarily based at the nearby TeatroNovissimo but returned to SS. Giovanni e Paolo for the 1642–1643 season, bringing...
Madwoman) by Giulio Strozzi and Francesco Sacrati, which inaugurated the TeatroNovissimo, the sets designed by the celebrated stage designer Giacomo Torelli...
the TeatroNovissimo. Torelli's last work in Venice was for Sacrati's L'Ulisse errante, performed during the carnival season of 1644 at the Teatro Santi...
(Canzoni per sonare). He composed one opera, Ercole in Lidia (1645, TeatroNovissimo, Venice, now lost) and withdrew from another project, Argiope (1649)...
wrote the libretto for Cavalli's Deidamia, first performed at the TeatroNovissimo, Venice, in 1644. Many of his lyrics are included in Benedetto Croce's...
His death cut short a collaboration with poet Antonio Porta, another Novissimo, on a project set to the music of Stratos' voice upsetting not only the...
transferred here from Piazza Mercanti. In 1786 it became the Broletto Novissimo]], i.e. the municipal seat of the municipality of Milan, replacing the...
de Santa Fosca Ponte dei Gesuiti Rio de Santa Caterina Ponte del Gheto Novissimo Rio del Gheto Ponte de Gheto Novo Rio de San Girolamo et rio dei Ormesini...
flourished in Venice: Santi Giovanni e Paolo (1639), San Moisè (1640), Novissimo (1641), San Samuele (1655) and Santi Apostoli (1649). It was in these...
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