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19-624: Teatro Lirico may refer to: Teatro Lirico (Milan) (formerly Teatro alla Canobbiana) in Milan, Italy Teatro Lirico di Cagliari in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy Teatro Lirico Sperimentale in Spoleto, Italy Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi in Trieste, Italy Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

38-551: A contract for Gaber with Dischi Ricordi . He then played with the Rocky Mountains Old Time Stompers (replacing Tony Dallara who had left to pursue a solo career) and with Rolling Crew. Because neither Tenco nor Gaber were yet members of the Italian Society of Authors and Publishers they could not trademark the song "Ciao ti dirò" ("I'll Say Hi to You", inspired by Elvis Presley 's "Jailhouse Rock"), which

57-536: A horseshoe shape, surmounted by a cupola , with four tiers of boxes and a gallery (or loggione ). For nearly a century it was Milan's second opera house. By the 1880s, with the increasing lack of public funds and fewer and fewer private subscriptions, the Teatro alla Canobbiana had fallen on hard times. In 1894, it was taken over by Edoardo Sonzogno and renamed the Teatro Lirico Internazionale, although it

76-542: A student of languages (Chinese and Russian) at the University of Milan . In 1966 she gave birth to daughter Dalia. He took part to Festival di Sanremo four times, with the songs "Benzina e cerini" ("Petrol and Matches") in 1961, "Così felice" ("So Happy") in 1964, "Mai, Mai, Mai Valentina" ("Never, Never, Never Valentina") in 1966 and "...E allora dai" ("...Well Come On Then!") in 1967. In 1969 he released one of his best-known successes, "Com'è bella la città" ("How Beautiful

95-480: Is normally referred to in Milan simply as the Teatro Lirico. The theatre continued to be used for opera, ballet, and plays into the 20th century, but was taken over by the city of Milan in 1926, after which it was increasingly used for public assemblies. It was in the Teatro Lirico that Benito Mussolini made one of his first public speeches in 1921 and his last public speech and radio broadcast in 1944. The building

114-498: Is of Slovene origin (Gaberščik). His mother was from the Veneto region. The two met and married in Veneto and later moved to Milan, where Giorgio was born. Gaber began to play as rehabilitation for an injury to his hand which required constant but not strenuous activity to recover his motor skills. Since his health as a child was not the best and his older brother Marcello played guitar, he

133-677: The 1990s and early 2000s. A lifelong smoker, Giorgio Gaber died on New Year's Day 2003 after a long battle with lung cancer , in his country house in Montemagno near Camaiore , in Tuscany, and his body was buried at the Monumental Cemetery of Milan . In 2004, the refurbished underground auditorium of the Pirelli Tower in Milan was dedicated to him. In 2012, Patti Smith recorded the cover of Io come persona , translated into English "I as

152-618: The City Is"), an example of the introduction of social matters in a song . The following year, he showed at Piccolo teatro his first edition of Il Signor G ("Mister G"), a recital he repeated in many Italian squares. In 1973, he recorded the one song by which he is most recognized by international audiences: Far Finta di Essere Sani which was covered in English as Tomorrow's Got to be Sunny by Tony Orlando and Dawn on their 1975 album He Don't Love You (Like I Love You) . A year later, he

171-525: The Teatro Lirico from the early 1960s until its closure in 1998. The renovated theatre will also house the archives of the Fondazione Giorgio Gaber. Further Reading 45°27′41.39″N 9°11′30.56″E  /  45.4614972°N 9.1918222°E  / 45.4614972; 9.1918222 Giorgio Gaber Giorgio Gaber ( Italian: [ˈdʒordʒo ˈɡaːber] ), by name of Giorgio Gaberscik (25 January 1939 – 1 January 2003),

190-619: The court theatre of the Royal Palace of Milan , was destroyed by fire on February 26, 1776. With the city deprived of its only theatre, Giuseppe Piermarini was commissioned to design and build two new theatres on land surrounding the Palace. The church of Santa Maria della Scala was demolished to build the Teatro alla Scala . A second theatre was built nearby, on the site of the Scuole Cannobiane and

209-500: The end of 1958 with two vinyl singles – "Come Facette Mammeta", a classic song of Neapolitan humour, and "Non occupatemi il telefono" ("Don't Hog the Telephone"). They continued to release singles with Dischi Ricordi throughout the following year, and in 1960 released their first album, Giorgio Gaber – Enzo Jannacci . After a sentimental-artistic companionship with singer and actress Maria Monti , he married Ombretta Colli in 1965, then

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228-590: The theatre, and in the absence of outside funding, it was closed. In April 2007, after several false starts, work was begun to renovate and modernise the theatre while keeping the Piermarini facade and the basic design of the original interior. When it re-opens, it will be called the Teatro Lirico Giorgio Gaber in honour of the Milanese singer, songwriter, actor and playwright who had frequently performed at

247-492: The title Teatro Lirico . 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=Teatro_Lirico&oldid=822659016 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Teatro Lirico (Milan) The Teatro Regio Ducale ,

266-602: Was an Italian singer, composer, actor, and playwright. He was also an accomplished guitar player and author of one of the first rock songs in Italian ("Ciao ti dirò", 1958). With Sandro Luporini , he pioneered the musical genre known as teatro canzone ("theatre song"). He was born in Milan into a lower-middle-class family. His father, Guido Gaberscik, was born in Trieste when the city was still part of Austria-Hungary . The surname Gaberscik

285-573: Was badly damaged by a fire in 1938, but was repaired in time to host the 1943 season for La Scala after its own theatre had been largely destroyed by the American aerial bombardment of Milan during World War II . Theatrical performances, and public meetings resumed after the War, and for a period in the 1960s, the Teatro Lirico was the home of Giorgio Strehler 's Piccolo Teatro di Milano . In 1998, facing financial difficulties, Milan could no longer afford to run

304-455: Was called the Teatro alla Canobbiana. The Teatro alla Scala was intended for the more aristocratic audiences, while the Cannobiana was considered the theater for the public at large. It was inaugurated on August 21, 1779 (a little more than year after the opening of La Scala) with an opera buffa and ballet by Salieri . Like La Scala and many Italian opera houses of the time, it was built in

323-517: Was encouraged to play as well. The outcome was good both in terms of his health and artistically, and at only fourteen years of age, he was engaged to play at a New Eve's party and earned his first paycheck of 1,000 lire . Subsequently, he began to frequent the Santa Tecla , a venue in Milan where he had the chance to meet musicians of the time, including Luigi Tenco , Gianfranco Reverberi , Adriano Celentano , Ricky Gianco , and Mogol , who obtained

342-547: Was given the very first Premio Tenco award, and many years later, also received the Targa Tenco in 2001 for his song "La razza in estinzione" ("The Dying Race") and in 2003 for the album Io non mi sento italiano ("I Don't Feel Italian"). After the Tenco award Gaber abandoned television and began to tour only in theatres, as one of the founders of the teatro canzone genre. He would appear again on TV, although sporadically, only in

361-432: Was signed off by Giorgio Calabrese and Giampiero Reverberi despite being composed by Tenco and Gaber. The two went on to continue writing music together, developing at the same time a close friendship. In 1958 they toured Germany together with Adriano Celentano , Enzo Jannacci , Paolo Tomelleri and Gianfranco Reverberi. Gaber paired up with Enzo Jannacci as I Due Corsari ("The Two Privateers"), who made their debut at

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