Carcano Theater

The Carcano Theater is a historic theater in Milan: inaugurated in 1803, it is still one of the largest halls in the city today, and hosts plays of prose, dance and music.

Large space illuminated by the right amount of light.

In 1801, in the climate of great urban renewal determined by the Napoleonic conquest, Giuseppe Carcano decided to build a new, large theater (from 1200 to 1500 seats) along the then prestigious Corso di Porta Romana, dotted with new noble residences and renovated , in the last years of the eighteenth century, by Piermarini, who had arranged it as a pavement, equipping it with granite pavements.

As usual in that decade, the area of ??the former convent of San Lazzaro, a suppressed religious institution, was used.

The design was commissioned to Luigi Canonica, then a young State Architect of the Cisalpine Republic (later of the Italian Republic and finally of the Italian Kingdom), who had assumed this position in August 1797 in place of Piermarini.

Canonica, assisted by the young engineer Giuseppe Cusi, modeled the Scala and the Teatro della Cannobiana, designing a hall with four tiers of boxes, once with a central medallion, decorated throughout with distinctly neoclassical stucco and gilding. The new theater was inaugurated on 3 September 1803 with the opera Zaira by Vincenzo Federici with Giacomo David.

Map: Carcano Theater

vCard Info:

Address: Corso di Porta Romana, 63, 20122
Milano (MI) Lombardia
Latitude: 45.456604941666704
Longitude: 9.195384979248047
Site: https://www.teatrocarcano.com/...

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Type: Building
Function: Theater
Creation date: 13-10-2020 03:27
Last update: 25/11/2021