Bergamo: Teatro Donizetti

Country: Italy (Italia)
Region: Lombardia
City: Bergamo
Location: Piazza Cavour 15

Built 1797-1799 as "Secondo Teatro Pubblico Riccardi" by Giovan Francesco Lucchini on the site of a previous theatre (built 1783, destroyed by a fire). Opened 1799 with Pascale Anfossis's opera "L'Avaro". 1897 new façade by Pietro Via. 1897 renamed "Teatro Donizetti" in honour of the Bergamo-born opera composer, Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848). Operated as a municipal theatre since 1936. 1960 fly tower rebuilding. 2017-2019 major renovation. 1154 seats. Used for opera, drama and ballet performances. Main venue of the "Donizetti Opera" festival.

Notable world premieres:

  • Gaetano Donizetti: Il Pigmalione (1960)

Links: www.teatrodonizetti.it, EUTA, Wikipedia

Bergamo: Teatro Donizetti Picture: before the 1897 façade rebuiling
Reverse Text: "bergamo, Il teatro Riccardi, fatto costruire (dove c'era un baraccone-teatro) da Bortolo Riccardi nel 1791 dopo diversi contrasti; derivati dal timore che potesse danneggiare il teatro della Società in Bergamo Alta. Nel 1897 fu riedificato col nome di Teatro Donizetti."
Publisher: Edizioni Bottega, Bergamo
Type: 20th-century postcard reproduction of a 19th-century image
Size: Modern
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Bergamo: Teatro Donizetti Picture: after the 1897 façade rebuiling
Front Text: "Bergamo - Teatro Donizetti"
Publisher: Römmler & Jonas, Dresden; 8951sina
Type: Undivided Back
Size: Classic
Sent: from Bergamo to Arezzo, 1898

Bergamo: Teatro Donizetti Picture: after the 1897 façade rebuiling
Front Text: "Bergamo - Teatro Gaetano Donizetti"
Publisher: Litografia A. Mariani, Bergamo; No. 1090
Type: Undivided Back
Size: Classic
Sent: from Bergamo to Roßla am Harz (Germany), 1905

Bergamo: Teatro Donizetti Picture: ceiling
Front Text: "Il trionfo dell'arte, sofitto del Teatro Donizetti", "Pittore F. Domenighini"
Publisher: Legrenzi, Bergamo
Type: Undivided Back
Size: Classic
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Bergamo: Teatro Donizetti Reverse Text: "Bergamo - Teatro e Monumento a G. Donizetti"
Publisher: Edizione Anonima Bolis, Bergamo; 4995
Type: Divided Back
Size: Classic
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Bergamo: Teatro Donizetti Reverse Text: "Bergamo - Teatro Donizetti, Bergamo - Théâtre Donizetti, Bergamo - Donizetti Theatre, Bergamo - Donizetti Theater"
Publisher: Ediz. C. I. P., Bergamo; 3
Size: Modern
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Bergamo: Teatro Donizetti Reverse Text: "Bergamo - Interno del Teatro Comunale 'G. Donizetti' - Inside of the Municipal Theatre 'G. Donizetti' - Interieur du Théâtre Communale 'G. Donizetti' - Das Innere Gemeindetheater 'G. Donizetti'" [sic!]
Publisher: Edizioni Cittadini, Bergmao; 19791
Size: Modern
Not sent.

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