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12-631: By the end of the 18th century, the need for a new theatre in Trieste became evident. Its main theatre, the Teatro di San Pietro, had become increasingly inadequate and closed in 1800. A proposal to the Austrian Chancery from Giovanni Matteo Tommasini to build a private theatre had existed since 1795 and, in June 1798, a contract was drawn up whereby annual funding would come from the municipality and Tommasini would hold

24-559: A description of works in Venice, and translated works from Perrault and Chambers from French and English respectively. He died suddenly in Venice in 1819. Palazzo Smith Mangilli Valmarana Palazzo Smith Mangilli Valmarana is a palace in Venice, located in the Cannaregio district and overlooking the Grand Canal . The neighbouring building is Palazzo Michiel del Brusà . The palazzo

36-467: A mixture of La Fenice on the inside and La Scala on the exterior. Several name changes have occurred during the theatre's lifetime, the first in 1821 when it became the Teatro Grande and it was under this name that the theatre was the site of two Verdi opera premieres: Il corsaro in 1848 (featuring the soprano Giuseppina Strepponi , who Verdi married in 1859, in the leading role) and Stiffelio ,

48-460: A production which Verdi supervised - not without controversy - in 1850. However, before these premieres, Verdi's operas had begun to dominate the Teatro Grande's stage, followed, as the century progressed, by all the major works of the opera repertoire, including those by Puccini and Wagner . A further name change followed in 1861 due to a change from private to public ownership. Thus, it became

60-550: Is best known for having been the residence of the English consul Joseph Smith , who was Canaletto 's agent to sell his paintings to the British customers. Smith bought the palazzo in 1740. The palace was originally a Gothic Byzantine building, but when it became the seat of the English embassy and the residence of Smith, he altered the structure according to the taste of the time: in 1743, painter and engraver Antonio Visentini designed

72-533: The Teatro Comunale and existed as such throughout the latter years of the 19th century. By 1881, seating capacity had been increased to 2,000 through the use of existing standing room spaces; but, by that December, the theatre was declared to be unsafe and it was closed for renovations, during which electricity replaced gas lighting for the reopening in 1889 with 1,000 seats. Within hours of his death in January 1901,

84-594: The Teatro Verdi's programming in the past 40 years, which stems from the original Austrian occupation of the city in the 19th century and the fact that Trieste did not become part of Italy until 1918, is the "International Festival of Operetta" which takes place every summer. The theatre has seen the world premieres of the following operas: 45°39′04″N 13°46′08″E  /  45.651°N 13.769°E  / 45.651; 13.769 Gian Antonio Selva Gian Antonio Selva (2 September 1751 - 22 January 1819)

96-427: The new facade; the work lasted until 1751. The new facade only reached the present first noble floor. In 1784, the palace passed to Count Giuseppe Mangilli, who added the above floors and invited Giannantonio Selva to decorate the interiors. Selva created a luxurious and unified series of rooms in neoclassical style, still perfectly preserved today. The neoclassical building consists of three floors with mezzanine in

108-613: The renovation of Palazzo Dolfin Manin for doge Ludovico Manin , the Villa Manfrin detta Margherita a Sant'Artemio, near Treviso (c. 1790), the original Teatro La Fenice (designed in 1798 and destroyed by fire in 1996), renovation of Palazzo Smith Mangilli Valmarana (1784), the Teatro Nuovo of Trieste (1798), Teatro de La Sena of Feltre , cathedral of Cologna Veneta (1807–10) and the church of San Maurizio in Venice (1806). He wrote

120-605: The rights to several boxes and the rights to sell others. Gian Antonio Selva , the architect of the La Fenice in Venice , was engaged, and he designed a classic horseshoe-shaped auditorium. However, his exterior designs were considered to be too plain for the Austrians who then engaged another architect, Matteo Pertsch, to solve the problem, which was accomplished by incorporating elements of Milan 's La Scala opera house. The "Nuovo" became

132-547: The theatre was once again renamed, this time to honour the memory of Giuseppe Verdi. It was extensively restored between 1992 and 1997 and re-opened with about 1,300 seats and with a Viva Verdi concert which included excerpts from many of the composer's operas. (Like the restoration of La Scala between 2001 and 2004, a temporary alternative venue was quickly created in Trieste and the Sala Tripcovich continues to offer space for chamber opera and operettas.) A major feature of

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144-472: Was an Italian neoclassical architect . He was born in Venice , the son of scientist Lorenzo Selva. He studied architecture in Venice, and was a pupil of the architect Tommaso Temanza and the painter Pietro Antonio Novelli . Selva visited Rome , where he met Antonio Canova and traveled with him to Naples. He also visited London , Paris , Belgium and the Netherlands (1778-1781). His works include

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