Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti [Spoleto]
type: Item
label: Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti
description: Theatre building in Spoleto, Italy
description: theater in Spoleto @nl
EUTA building identifier: 2866
Type of information: Performance venue
Field: architecture
Country: Italy
City: Spoleto
GPS: Point(12.7353 42.7358)
Wikidata source: Q3516765
opening date: 1864-01-01T00:00:00Z
Flanders Arts Institute venue ID: 138662
Capacity: 800
architect: Ireneo Aleandri
Census of Italian theatres in 1863 ID: 822
Performing Arts / Artes Escénicas album ID: 72157623600903533
Census Italia 1968 ID: 99-8
Reconstructing Theatre Architecture: 498
Address: Via Vaita S. Andrea
Importance: Not rated
Wikidata instance: Q24354
Kunstenpunt Wiki Qid: Q191147
Carthalia ID: 2458
Preservation state: extant building
Preservation state: Used as theatre today
Census Italia 1968 table ID: 286
Note: Built 1857-1864 by Ireneo Alendri for a citizens' society, on the former site of the San Andrea monastery. Decorations and painted curtain by Luigi Masella. Stage machinery by Eugenio Venier. Opened 3 agosto 1864 as Teatro Nuovo. 2010 named in honour of the Italian composer, Gian Carlo Menotti (1911-2007). 800 seats. Currently used for drama performances by the Teatro Stabile dell'Umbria and for performances by the summer arts and theatre festival Festival dei Due Mondi.