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Teatro Rossini of Pesaro

Pesaro

In 1637, the Teatro del Sole was inaugurated in Pesaro.The greatest living stagecraft technician was entrusted with its design, which incorporated part of the stables built the previous century by the Duke of Urbino: Nicola Sabbatini from Pesaro (1574-1654), a pioneer of scenography, theatrical lighting ...
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... and Italian stagecraft which, subsequently developed by Giacomo Torelli and by the Galli da Bibbiena, among others, would set for centuries an example throughout the world.After almost 180 years, the theater was rebuilt, and its current facade ...
... is neoclassical, but retains the portal with rustication cornice that Sabbatini had maintained and which dates back to the 16th-century intervention by Filippo Terzi on the stables palace.The theatre building is therefore the result of an extraordinary stratification spanning several centuries ...
... which crystallized in 1818.The horseshoe-shaped hall today retains the layout given to it that year by the design of Pietro Ghinelli, with four tiers of boxes and the gallery.The stage can still exhibit ...
... the contemporary historic curtain, the work of Angelo Monticelli, who also painted works at the Teatro alla Scala and the Teatro Comunale di Ferrara.It depicts the mythological fountain of Hippocrene, a favorite place of the Muses.The photo is prior to the 2025 intervention that gave the portal ...
... a new textile set entirely made of FTA - Tancredi 500 burgundy velvet with 100% vertical fullness.The Traveller curtain measures 17 x h 9.8 m and, like the valance, it features golden trimmings that replicate those of the pre-existing artifacts it and opens ...
... onto a second traveller curtain with a moveable teaser.Both artifacts on the second level are decorated ...
...with burgundy NFR - Fringes, which, if anything, give them an even more sober and elegant look than the first curtain.The textile equipment of the portal ...
The Teatro Rossini is the historic theatre of the city of Pesaro, where it is also the most important theatre.
It is an Italian-style theatre with a horseshoe-shaped hall and four tiers of boxes and a gallery that can accommodate 860 spectators.
1637
Inauguration of the Teatro del Sole, designed by Nicola Sabbatini, who oversaw the construction, incorporating parts of the old ducal stables into the theater building.
1816
Reconstruction of the theatre begins; the design and construction management are entrusted to the architect Pietro Ghinelli.
1818
On June 10, the renamed Teatro Nuovo is inaugurated with The Thieving Magpie conducted by ... Rossini! who had been born in Pesaro 26 years earlier.
1855
The city of Pesaro dedicates the theatre to its illustrious son.
1930
An earthquake hits the northern provinces of the Marche region, rendering the building unusable.
1934
Reopening after major renovations.
1966
The theatre is declared unfit for use; in the following years, it underwent structural restoration to prevent its deterioration.
1980
In the same year that the prestigious international event Rossini Opera Festival begins, the theatre reopens.
2025
At the initiative of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Pesaro, the Municipality of Pesaro, and AMAT - Associazione Marchigiana Attività Teatrali, the portal is endowed with a new textile equipment.

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Teatro Rossini di Pesaro

Materials used in this production

FTA - Tancredi 500

Velvets

NBT - Bordo traforato

Trimmings

NFR - Fringes

Trimmings

Traveller curtains

Typology of curtain

Vertical fullness

Fabric: tailoring types

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