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The Real Teatro di San Carlo (''Royal Theatre of Saint Charles''), its original name under the Bourbon monarchy but known today as simply the Teatro di San Carlo, is an opera house in Naples, Italy. It is located adjacent to the central Piazza del Plebiscito, and connected to the Royal Palace. It is one of the oldest continuously active venue for public opera in the world, opening in 1737, decades before both the Milan's La Scala and Venice's La Fenice theatres. 〔("The Theatre and its history" ) on the Teatro di San Carlo's official website. (In English). Retrieved 23 December 2013〕 The opera season runs from late January to May, with the ballet season taking place from April to early June. The house once had a seating capacity of 3,285.〔Gubler 2012, p. 52〕 but nowadays has been reduced to 1414 seats.〔Leo Beranek 2004. ''Concert Halls and Opera Houses: Music, Acoustics, and Architecture'', p. 361. Springer-Verlag, New York. ISBN 978-0-387-21636-2〕 Given its size, structure and antiquity was the model for the following theatres in Europe. ==History of the opera house== Commissioned by the Bourbon King Charles VII of Naples (''Carlo VII'' in Italian), Charles wanted to endow Naples with a new and larger theatre to replace the old, dilapidated, and too-small Teatro San Bartolomeo of 1621, which had served the city well, especially after Scarlatti had moved there in 1682 and had begun to create an important opera centre which existed well into the 1700s.〔Lynn 2005, p. 277〕 Thus, the San Carlo was inaugurated on 4 November 1737, the king's name day, with the performance of the opera Domenico Sarro's ''Achille in Sciro'', which was based on the 1736 libretto by Metastasio which had been set to music that year by Antonio Caldara. As was customary, the role of Achilles was played by a woman, Vittoria Tesi, called "Moretta"; the opera also featured soprano Anna Peruzzi, called "the Parrucchierina" and tenor Angelo Amorevoli. Sarro also conducted the orchestra in two ballets as intermezzi, created by Gaetano Grossatesta, with scenes designed by Pietro Righini.〔 The first seasons highlighted the royal preference for dance numbers, and featured among the performers famous castrati. In the late 18th century, Christoph Willibald Gluck was called to Naples by the impresario Tufarelli to direct his 1852 ''Clemenza di Tito'' at the theatre, and Johann Christian Bach in 1761-62 brought two operas, ''Catone in Utica'' and ''Alessandro nell'Indie''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Teatro di San Carlo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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