Teatro Grande [Brescia]
type: Item
label: Teatro Grande
description: Theatre building in Brescia, Italy, opened in 1664
description: theater in Italië @nl
EUTA building identifier: 864
Type of information: Performance venue
Field: architecture
Country: Italy
City: Brescia
GPS: Point(10.2208 45.5368)
Wikidata source: Q1407816
opening date: 1810-01-01T00:00:00Z
Building date: 1664-01-01T00:00:00Z
Building date: 1804-01-01T00:00:00Z
Redevelopment date: 1739-01-01T00:00:00Z
Redevelopment date: 1760-01-01T00:00:00Z
Redevelopment date: 1780-01-01T00:00:00Z
Redevelopment date: 1806-01-01T00:00:00Z
Redevelopment date: 1863-01-01T00:00:00Z
Flanders Arts Institute venue ID: 136190
Capacity: 970
Capacity: 1300
Capacity: 1624
Address: Via Paganora
Web: www.teatrogrande.it
architect: Luigi Canonica
Census of Italian theatres in 1863 ID: 122
Performing Arts / Artes Escénicas album ID: 72157623600903533
Census Italia 1968 ID: 77-5
Reconstructing Theatre Architecture: 412
Note: Altered several times, previous theatre of 1664
Note: E’ un bellissimo teatro neo­classico, eretto dall’architetto Luigi Canonica sull’area di al­tro teatro risalente al 1668. Inaugurato nel 1810, è stato più volte restaurato nel corso dell’ottocento ed è oggi la sede di apprezzate stagioni liriche, di concerti, di spettacoli di prosa e del Festival pianistico intitola­to ad Arturo Benedetti Miche­langeli (in alternanza con il Teatro Donizzetti di Bergamo). @it
Note: Built 1739 by Carlo Manfredi for the Accademia degli Erranti. 1761-1769 addition of a concert hall (Sala del Ridotto) and foyer by Antonio Marchetti with paintings by Francesco Battaglioli, Francesco Giugno, and Pietro Scalvini. 1789 façade rebuilding by Gaspare Turbini. 1806 major interior rebuilding by Luigi Canonica. 1862 alteration of auditorium design by Gerolamo Magnani, ceiling painting by Luigi Campini. 1904 alterations of the upper two balconies.
Importance: Not rated
Wikidata instance: Q153562
Wikidata instance: Q24354
Kunstenpunt Wiki Qid: Q191097
Carthalia ID: 2277
Preservation state: extant building
Preservation state: Used as theatre today