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The Teatro Capranica is a theatre situated at 101 Piazza Capranica in the Colonna district of Rome. Originally constructed in 1679 by the Capranica family and housed in the early Renaissance Palazzo Capranica, it was the second public theatre to open in Rome. It was the site of many premieres of Baroque operas including Caldara's Tito e Berenice , Scarlatti's Griselda , and Vivaldi's Ercole su'l Termodonte . The Capranica ceased operating as a full-scale theatre and opera house in 1881 and in 1922 was converted into a cinema. Following the closure of the cinema in 2000, it has functioned on a hire basis as a conference and performance venue.

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30-513: Capranica may refer to: House of Capranica, a noble Roman family; to this are related: Teatro Capranica , a theatre in Rome originally built in 1679 Almo Collegio Capranica , a pontifical seminary in Rome for the training of priests Capranica Prenestina , a comune in the Metropolitan City of Rome, Italy Capranica, Lazio , a comune in

60-519: A conclave to select his successor. Factions loyal to the Kingdom of France , Spain and the broader Holy Roman Empire failed to agree on a consensus candidate . After five months, Cardinal Pignatelli emerged as a compromise candidate between the cardinals of France and those of the Holy Roman Empire, particularly after Cardinal Gregorio Barbarigo was no longer considered a viable candidate for

90-466: A coalition government. More than 50 works (including operas, oratorios, cantatas, and plays) have premiered at the Teatro Capranica. The first opera to be premiered there was Pasquini 's Dov'è amore è pietà which inaugurated the theatre in 1679. The 1728 premiere of Riccardo Broschi 's L'isola di Alcina was marked by the presence of his brother, the celebrated castrato singer Farinelli , in

120-595: A hard stance against nepotism in the Church, continuing the policies of Pope Innocent XI , who started the battle against nepotism but which did not gain traction under Pope Alexander VIII . To that end, he issued a papal bull strictly forbidding it. The pope also used this bull to ensure that no revenue or land could be bestowed on relatives. Antonio Pignatelli was born on 13 March 1615 in Spinazzola (now in Apulia ) to one of

150-473: A simpler and more economical manner of life into his court. Innocent XII said that "the poor were his nephews" and compared his public beneficence to the nepotism of many predecessors. That same year he invited Marcello Malpighi to Rome to serve as his personal physician and offered him the position of Professor of Medicine at the Sapienza University of Rome . Malpighi introduced his Roman colleagues to

180-465: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Teatro Capranica The palazzo in which the theatre was situated had been originally constructed in 1451 by Cardinal Domenico Capranica , to serve as both his own residence and the future home of the Almo Collegio Capranica , a college for young clerics which he founded in 1457. One of

210-602: The Apostolic Nuncio to Poland from 1660 to 1668 and later to Austria from 1668 to 1671. He was transferred to Lecce in 1671. Pope Innocent XI appointed him as the Cardinal-Priest of San Pancrazio in 1681 and then moved him to the see of Faenza in 1682. He was moved to his final post before the papacy, as Archbishop of Naples in 1686. Pope Alexander VIII died in 1691 and the College of Cardinals assembled to hold

240-732: The Explication des Maximes des Saints sur la Vie Intérieure of the latter. Innocent XII's pontificate also differed greatly from his predecessors' because of his leanings towards France instead of the Habsburg monarchy ; the first in the 20 years following France's failure to have its candidate elected in 1644 and 1655 . Innocent XII created 30 cardinals in four consistories; two of those he elevated were those he reserved in pectore . He canonized Saint Zita of Lucca on 5 September 1696. Innocent XII beatified Augustin Kažotić on 17 July 1700 and approved

270-551: The court of Pope Urban VIII . Pignatelli was the Referendary of the Apostolic Signatura and served as the governor of Fano and Viterbo . Later he went to Malta where he served as an inquisitor from 1646 to 1649, and then governor of Perugia . Shortly after this, he received his priestly ordination. Pignatelli was made Titular Archbishop of Larissa in 1652 and received episcopal consecration in Rome. He served as

300-526: The papal bull , Romanum decet Pontificem , banning the curial office of the Cardinal-Nephew and prohibiting popes from bestowing estates , offices, or revenues on any relative. Further, only one relative (and only "if otherwise suitable") was to be raised to the cardinalate. At the same time he sought to check the simony in the practices of the Apostolic Chamber and to that end introduced

330-541: The 1750s it was much favoured by Goldoni for their stagings of his plays. In 1760, he wrote his comedy Pamela maritata expressly for the theatre. The theatre went through several more renovations, closures, and proprietors starting in the second half of the 18th century. By the 19th century, it had ceased being a leading opera house in the city and tended to concentrate on comic operas and plays (often in Roman dialect ), acrobatic displays, and puppet shows. The theatre returned to

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360-541: The Capranica family in 1853 when Marchese Bartolomeo Capranica bought it back from Prince Alessandro Torlonia and spent a great deal of money renovating it. However, it never regained its former prestige. The American writer Henry P. Leland described it in 1863 as: the resort for the Roman minenti decked in all their bravery. Here came the shoemaker, the tailor, and the small artisan, all with their wives or women, and with them

390-620: The Capranica include: Notes Sources 41°54′01″N 12°28′40″E  /  41.9002°N 12.4778°E  / 41.9002; 12.4778 Pope Innocent XII Pope Innocent XII ( Latin : Innocentius XII ; Italian : Innocenzo XII ; 13 March 1615 – 27 September 1700), born Antonio Pignatelli , was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 12 July 1691 to his death in September 1700. He took

420-684: The Province of Viterbo, Italy Caprarica di Lecce , town and comune in the Italian province of Lecce Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Capranica . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Capranica&oldid=1037256695 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

450-428: The cultus of Angela of Foligno in 1693. He also beatified Osanna Andreasi on 24 November 1694, Mary de Cervellione on 13 February 1692, Jane of Portugal on 31 December 1692, Umiliana de' Cerchi on 24 July 1694, Helen Enselmini on 29 October 1695 and Delphine of Glandèves in 1694. Innocent XII was already considerably ill on 25 December 1699 with gout (a rheumatic disease) and was therefore unable to attend

480-450: The exterior of the building. The theatre was inaugurated on 6 January 1679 with Arcangelo Corelli leading the orchestra for the premiere of Bernardo Pasquini 's opera Dov'è amore è pietà . With the accession of Pope Alexander VIII , Pompeo Capranica and his brother Federico received permission to enlarge the theatre and open it to the public. They entrusted the task to Carlo Buratti (a student of Carlo Fontana ) who completely rebuilt

510-459: The few remaining examples of Roman residential architecture of the early renaissance, it has a large side tower and a piano nobile lit by three cross mullion windows as well as three windows in the late Gothic style which suggest that the palace may have incorporated an earlier building on the site. In the late 1670s, another member of the family, Pompeo Capranica, had a private theatre carved out from existing family apartments without changing

540-527: The most aristocratic families of the Kingdom of Naples , which had included several Viceroys and ministers of the crown. He was the fourth of five children of Francesco Pignatelli and Porzia Carafa . His siblings were Marzio, Ludovico, Fabrizio and Paola Maria. He was educated at the Collegio Romano in Rome where he earned a doctorate in both canon and civil law. At the age of 20 he became an official of

570-501: The papacy. Having received 53 out of 61 votes, Pignatelli took his new name in honour of Pope Innocent XI and was crowned on 15 July 1691 by the protodeacon , Cardinal Urbano Sacchetti. He took possession of the Basilica of Saint John Lateran on 13 April 1692. Immediately after his election on 12 July 1691, Innocent XII declared his opposition to the nepotism which had afflicted the reigns of previous popes. The following year he issued

600-489: The role of Ruggiero . Like most of the operas premiered at the Capranica prior to 1750, it was an opera seria . The premieres at the theatre after 1750 were almost exclusively of the opera buffa genre, such as Galuppi 's La cantarina (1756) or Piccinni 's La donna di spirito (1770). Many of the shorter ones, such as Antonio Sacchini 's La vendemmia (1760), were specifically written to be performed as comic intermezzos for prose plays. Other operas premiered at

630-672: The solemn opening of the Holy Door at Saint Peter's Basilica to mark the beginning of the Jubilee for 1700, hence, Cardinal Emmanuel-Théodose de La Tour d'Auvergne represented the pontiff in the solemn celebration. On Easter Sunday in 1700, the seriously ill pontiff gave a blessing from his balcony to the large crowds outside of the Quirinal Palace . Despite his illness, he named three new cardinals in June 1700. Innocent died on 27 September 1700 and

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660-441: The street. Audiences could only enter through the workshop of a carpenter on the ground floor of the palazzo. His lease required him to close his workshop during the opera season and to provide at his own expense a wooden staircase to enable the spectators to climb into the theatre. It was a situation that was not rectified until the 19th century. Under Pope Innocent XII , public theatrical performances were once again forbidden and

690-466: The theatre in 1694 transforming it into the standard U-shape with rich ornamentation and 6 tiers of 26 boxes each. It re-opened as a public theatre (Rome's second) on 18 January 1695 with a performance of Clearco in Negroponte a three-act opera jointly composed by Giovanni Lorenzo Lulier , Tommaso Gaffi and Carlo Francesco Cesarini . However, the new theatre still lacked a public entrance opening onto

720-402: The theatre remained closed from 1699 to 1711. When the prohibition on public performances was lifted, the Capranica brothers re-opened the theatre and soon attracted the patronage of Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni who contributed to the cost the renovation after its long closure and hired his architect, Filippo Juvarra , to renovate the stage. The two decades after the re-opening marked the heyday of

750-475: The theatre which would become Rome's primary public opera house and see the premieres of many new operas and innovative sets designed by Filippo Juvarra and Francesco Galli Bibiena . The composer Alessandro Scarlatti was closely associated with the Capranica which premiered several of his early operas beginning in 1679. When he returned to Rome in 1718 after his years in Naples, he produced his three finest operas for

780-496: The theatre, Telemaco , Marco Attilio Regolo and Griselda . Between 1718 and 1721, the Capranica also saw the premieres of Scarlatti's oratorio , La gloriosa gara tra la Santità e la Sapienza , and several of his cantatas . With the construction of new public theatres in Rome such as the Teatro Alibert (1718), Teatro Valle (1727) and Teatro Argentina (1732), the Capranica gradually declined in importance, although in

810-659: The use of the microscope . Innocent XII also introduced various reforms into the States of the Church including the Forum Innocentianum , designed to improve the administration of justice dispensed by the Church. In 1693 he compelled French bishops to retract the four propositions relating to the Gallican Liberties which had been formulated by the assembly of 1682. In 1699, he decided in favour of Jacques-Benigne Bossuet in that prelate's controversy with Fénelon about

840-477: The wealthy peasant who had ten cents to pay for entrance. Here the audience wept and laughed, applauded the actors, and talked to each other from one side of the house to the other. Eventually, the costs of upkeep and dwindling audiences led to the Capranica's demise. It closed permanently following a performance of Verdi's opera Ernani on 1 March 1881. At first it was rented out as a furniture warehouse, but then stood completely empty from 1895 until 1922 when it

870-550: The years has been the setting for numerous meetings of Italian political parties. In January 2013, Silvio Berlusconi gave a two-hour speech there in which he introduced the Popolo della Libertà candidates for the 2013 Italian general election . During a meeting of the Partito Democratico at the Capranica that lasted late into the night of 19 April 2013, Pier Luigi Bersani resigned as party leader following his failure to form

900-524: Was converted into a cinema. After the closure of the Cinema Capranica in 2000, the 800-seat theatre with its now minimal stage was re-opened as a conference and performance venue available on a hire basis. Under the proprietorship of the Hotel Nazionale and managed by Montecitorio Eventi S.r.l., it has hosted four small-scale opera productions by the association "Aulico – Opera & Musica" and over

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