List of works premiered at the Teatro Capranica

Facade of the Palazzo Capranica, the 16th-century palace in which the theatre was housed

This is a chronological list of works known to have premiered at the Teatro Capranica in Rome. While the vast majority are operas, the list also includes oratorios, cantatas, and plays.[1] The Capranica was originally built as a private theatre in 1679 and converted into a public theatre in 1694. The theatre was closed from 1699 to 1711 when there was a papal ban on public secular performances in Rome. There were other shorter periods of closure in the 18th and 19th centuries, and it definitively ceased operating as a full-scale theatre and opera house in 1881. In a much altered state, it now serves as a conference and event venue.[2]

Premieres

17th century

Portrait of Bernardo Pasquini by Andrea Pozzo. Pasquini's opera Dov'è amore è pietà inaugurated the Teatro Capranica in 1679.

18th century

Portrait of the celebrated castrato singer Farinelli by Corrado Giaquinto. Farinelli sang many times at the Capranica, including the 1728 premiere of L'isola di Alcina composed by his brother Riccardo Broschi.[7]
Caricature of Gaetano Latilla by Pier Leone Ghezzi. Latilla's Tito Manlio was one of the last in the opera seria genre to be premiered at the Capranica. He was the uncle of Niccolò Piccinni, several of whose comic operas premiered at the Capranica in the late 1760s.
Portrait of Carlo Goldoni by Alessandro Longhi. Goldoni wrote his 1760 play Pamela Maritata expressly for the Capranica
Portrait of Valentino Fioravanti by Achille Talarico. Fioravanti's comic operas, three of which premiered at the Capranica, were typical of the theatre's operatic repertoire in the late 18th century.

References

Notes

  1. ↑ The theatre has sometimes been erroneously listed in older sources as the premiere venue for works which actually premiered at the Teatro Valle, another theatre owned by the Capranica family. An example of this is Piccinni's L'americano, which the 2001 edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and Casaglia list as having premiered at the Teatro Capranica. However, the libretto printed for the premiere states: "da rappresentarsi nel Teatro alla Valle degl'illustrissimi signori Capranica". See Lungi; Libby et al. pp. 708–715; Polzonetti p. 170.
  2. ↑ Franchi and Sartori pp. xlv–xlvi
  3. 1 2 Unless otherwise specified, all items in this section are sourced from Casaglia
  4. ↑ Harper and Lindgren
  5. ↑ Franchi and Sartori p. 659
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 Della Corte
  7. ↑ Strohm p. 70
  8. ↑ Franchi and Sartori pp. 102–103
  9. ↑ Natuzzi pp. 7, 170
  10. ↑ Natuzzi p. 237
  11. ↑ Goldoni p. 97
  12. ↑ Robinson

Sources

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