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Teatro Santi Giovanni e Paolo

Teatro Santi Giovanni e Paolo is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Teatro Santi Giovanni e Paolo rather than just read about it. In short: The Teatro Santi Giovanni e Paolo (often written as Teatro SS. Giovanni e Paolo) was a theatre and opera house in Venice located on the Calle della Testa, and takes its name from the nearby Basilica of Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice.

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Reference excerpt

The Teatro Santi Giovanni e Paolo (often written as Teatro SS. Giovanni e Paolo) was a theatre and opera house in Venice located on the Calle della Testa, and takes its name from the nearby Basilica of Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice. Built by the Grimani family in 1638, in its heyday it was considered the most beautiful and comfortable theatre in the city. The theatre played an important role in the development of opera and saw the premieres of several works by Francesco Cavalli, as well as Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria and L'incoronazione di Poppea.

History The Grimani family originally built the theatre as a wooden structure on the Fondamenta Nuove around 1635. It was then rebuilt on a grander scale using both stone and wood in 1638 when it moved to the nearby Calle della Testa. It was built primarily for the performance of spoken drama, but from the very beginning operas were also performed there. In fact, the new theatre was inaugurated on 20 January 1639 with the premiere performance of Francesco Manelli's opera La Delia o sia La sera sposa del sole.

The librettist of La delia, Giulio Strozzi, became primarily based at the nearby Teatro Novissimo but returned to SS. Giovanni e Paolo for the 1642–1643 season, bringing with him the singers Barbara Strozzi and Anna Renzi (who sang Ottavia in the premiere of L'incoronazione di Poppea) and the pioneering set designer Giacomo Torelli. According to Rosand, it may have been at Santi Giovanni e Paolo that Torelli developed his machinery for changing several sets simultaneously. In 1654 the theatre was remodelled specifically as an opera house by the architect Carlo Fontana in one of his earliest commissions, and became the first fully developed horseshoe-shaped opera house in Italy, a design which remained essentially unchanged for over two centuries. Its magnificent interior could seat about 900 people with five tiers of boxes and additional seating on the U-shaped floor (or platea) in front of the stage. The theatre was described in 1663 by an observer as having:

...marvellous scene changes, majestic and grand appearances [of performers] ... and a magnificent flying machine; you see, as if commonplace, glorious heavens, deities, seas, royal palaces, woods, forests... Marco Faustini became the theatre's impresario in 1660, and for the next fifteen years the Teatro Santi Giovanni e Paolo and the Teatro di San Salvatore a San Luca (owned by the Vendramin family) were to be the dominant opera houses in Venice, each putting on two new operas every year. By 1700, the Grimani family had built two more theatres in Venice, the Teatro San Samuele and the Teatro San Giovanni Grisostomo. An economic crisis made the Teatro Santi Giovanni e Paolo increasingly difficult to maintain, and it finally closed in 1715.

Premieres Operas which had their first public performance at the theatre include:

La Delia by Francesco Manelli (1639) Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria by Monteverdi (1640) L'incoronazione di Poppea by Monteverdi (carnival season 1642/43) Xerse by Francesco Cavalli (1654) Statira principessa di Persia by Francesco Cavalli (1655, possibly 1656) Scipione affricano by Cavalli (1664) Il Tito by Antonio Cesti (1666) Totila by Giovanni Legrenzi (1677) La Gerusalemme liberata by Carlo Pallavicino (1687) L' Alboino in Italia by Carlo Francesco Pollarolo (1691) Zenobia, regina de' Palmireni by Tomaso Albinoni, (carnival season 1694) Marsia deluso by Francesco Pollarolo (1713)

See also List of theatres and opera houses in Venice

References

Sources Casaglia, Gherardo (2005). "Performances at SS. Giovanni e Paolo". L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian). Forsyth, Michael, Buildings for Music: the architect, the musician and the listener from the seventeenth century to the present day, CUP Archive, 1985. ISBN 0-521-26862-1 Ringer, Mark, Opera's First Master: The Musical Dramas of Claudio Monteverdi, Amadeus Press, 2006. ISBN 1-57467-110-3. Rosand, Ellen, Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice: The Creation of a Genre, University of California Press, 2007. ISBN 0-520-25426-0 Todarello, Nazzareno L., Le arti della scena: Lo spettacolo in Occidente da Eschilo al trionfo dell'opera, Latorre Editore, 2006. ISBN 88-903202-0-6

Illustrations

Teatro Santi Giovanni e Paolo: Libretto for L' Alboino in Italia which premiered at the Teatro Santi Giovanni e Paolo in 1691 — Libretto for L' Alboino in Italia which premiered at the Teatro Santi Giovanni e Paolo in 1691

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Teatro Santi Giovanni e Paolo

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

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Applications of Teatro Santi Giovanni e Paolo

In research: Teatro Santi Giovanni e Paolo appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Teatro Santi Giovanni e Paolo in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Teatro Santi Giovanni e Paolo is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1638 establishments in Italy, 1638 establishments in the Republic of Venice, Buildings and structures completed in 1638, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
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