Teatro La Fenice in Venice

12 December 2024 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Opera Houses, Theaters, Libraries Reading Time:  11 minutes

View from the stage © Pietro Tessarin/cc-by-sa-4.0

View from the stage © Pietro Tessarin/cc-by-sa-4.0

Teatro La Fenice (“The Phoenix“) is a historic opera house in Venice, Italy. It is one of “the most famous and renowned landmarks in the history of Italian theatre” and in the history of opera as a whole. Especially in the 19th century, La Fenice became the site of many famous operatic premieres at which the works of several of the four major bel canto era composers—Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, and Verdi—were performed.   read more…

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