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Teatro Nuovo, Naples

theater in Naples

  • TypeTheatres & operas
  • WhereNaples, Italy
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About Teatro Nuovo, Naples

The Teatro Nuovo (New Theatre) is a theatre located on Via Montecalvario in the Quartieri Spagnoli district of Naples. The original theatre was an opera house designed by Domenico Antonio Vaccaro. Completed in 1724, it was also known as the Teatro Nuovo sopra Toledo and the Teatro Nuovo de Montecalvario. The theatre specialised in the opera buffa genre and saw the world premieres of hundreds of operas in its heyday.

These included fifteen of Cimarosa's operas and seven of Donizetti's. The present theatre is the third to have been erected on the site following its destruction by fire in 1861 and again in 1935.

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Built
1723
Architect
Domenico Antonio Vaccaro
Official website
teatronuovonapoli.it
Naples