Teatro Petruzzelli [Bari, IT]
type: Item
label: Teatro Petruzzelli
description: Theatre building in Bari, Italy
description: operagebouw in Italië @nl
EUTA building identifier: 1935
Type of information: Performance venue
Field: architecture
Country: Italy
City: Bari
GPS: Point(16.8728 41.1235)
Wikidata source: Q845510
Burnt down date: 1991-10-27T00:00:00Z
opening date: 1902-02-14T00:00:00Z
Flanders Arts Institute venue ID: 142148
Web: www.fondazionepetruzzelli.it
Reconstructing Theatre Architecture: 514
Address: Corso Cavour, 12
Note: Damaged by fire in 1991
Note: E’ un vasto elegante teatro sto­rico, eretto su progetto dell’archi­tetto Angelo Messeni fra il 1899 e il 1903. Fa parte dei « teatri di tradizio­ne » e come tale ospita annualmen­te un’importante stagione lirica, oltre a spettacoli vari, di prosa e di rivista, e proiezioni cinematogra­fiche. Ha una capienza di 3.000 po­sti circa ed appartiene ad una so­cietà che ha sede nei locali annessi al ridotto. @it
Note: Built 1898-1903 by Onofrio Petruzzelli and Antonio Petruzzelli. Opened 14 February 1903 with Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots. Destroyed by a fire (whose cause has remained uncertain) on 27 October 1991. Subsequently restored. Re-opened 4 Oct 2009 with Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Originally 3500 seats, now 1480 seats (de-facto only 1250 seats are in use).
Capacity: 1250
Capacity: 3000
Importance: Not rated
Wikidata instance: Q153562
Kunstenpunt Wiki Qid: Q191158
Carthalia ID: 2260
Preservation state: extant building
Preservation state: Used as theatre today
Census Italia 1968 ID: 79-11
architect: Angelo Messeni