The Teatro Amilcare Ponchielli is an opera house located in Cremona , Italy . For more than 250 years it has been that city's primary venue for opera and other theatrical presentations.
4-582: The original theatre, built in 1747, was named the Teatro Nazari , but it was renamed as the Teatro della Società in 1785. It was sometimes referred to as the Nobile Associazione . After the original theatre burned down in 1806, construction began on the present theatre soon after. The current theatre was designed by Luigi Canonica and it opened in 1808 under the name the Teatro della Concordia . Its name
8-477: The theatre was remodeled in 1989 to create three box tiers and two galleries with a total of 1,249 seats. Lynn, Karyl Charna, Italian Opera Houses & Festivals , Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2005 ISBN 0-8108-5359-0 This article about an opera house or structure is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Luigi Canonica (Cristoforo Maria) Luigi Canonica ( Tesserete , Canton Ticino , 9 March 1762 – Milan, 7 February 1844)
12-566: Was a Swiss architect and urban planner whose prominent career as an exponent of neoclassicism was spent largely in Milan and Lombardy . He was the designated architect of the short-lived Repubblica Cisalpina , and, following the fall of the Napoleonic empire, of the kings of Sardinia . In Milan he was assigned to modify Giovanni Antonio Antolini's ambitious project for the Foro Buonaparte and
16-515: Was changed again to the Teatro Ponchielli in 1907 after the famous native of Cremona, Amilcare Ponchielli . In 1986 the theatre was purchased by the city of Cremona which renamed it once again as it is known today. The opening performance took place on 4 October and featured performances on the city-owned Stradivarius "Il Cremonese" and Guarneri "del Gesu" violins of 1715 and 1734 respectively. With its original horseshoe-shaped auditorium,
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