Teatro Malibran
Venice, Italy
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The Teatro Malibran is a Venetian opera house designed by Thomas Bezzi and inaugurated in 1678 with Carlo Pallavicino's *Vespasiano*. Originally named after the nearby church as Teatro San Giovanni Grisostomo, it quickly earned renown as the city's largest and most splendid theatre, boasting five tiers of thirty boxes each and a spacious stalls area. Though celebrated for operatic grandeur in the 17th and 18th centuries, its fortunes declined sharply after 1751, and it passed through various hands and incarnations—as Teatro Civico (from 1797), then Teatro Emeronitto after a refurbishment in 1834—with productions by Rossini and Donizetti. The theatre received its enduring name, Teatro Malibran, in 1835 when the celebrated soprano Maria Malibran performed Bellini's *La sonnambula* and, moved by its deteriorated state, refused her fee to help fund restoration.
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- Type
- theatre building, opera house
- Place
- Venice, Italy
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