"Fenice"" (1992), the first in her Commissario (Detective) Guido Brunetti detective series, centers on a mystery surrounding the sensational death by cyanide poisoning of a famous orchestra conductor, in the midst of a production of ""La traviata"" at La Fenice. In several scenes the opera house is described in meticulous detail, as it was at the time of writing, previous to the third fire. Notes Sources La Fenice Teatro La Fenice (, ""The Phoenix"") is an opera house in Venice, Italy. It is one of ""the most famous and renowned landmarks in the history of Italian theatre"", and in the"
"of Spanish orphanages/conservatories in Naples.) The best-known opera house in Venice and one of the most famous in the world is La Fenice, built in 1786. After a disastrous fire in 1996, it was rebuilt and is again open. The theater hosts many of the musical events for the Venice Biennale, a running festival of art, music, architecture, dance, cinema and music. The Biennale was started in the 1890s and has developed a reputation as an important venue for modern composers and contemporary music. Other venues for the Biennale are the Teatro Piccolo Arsenale, Teatro alle Tese, and the Teatro"
"La Fenice was rebuilt in 19th-century style on the basis of a design by architect Aldo Rossi who, in order to obtain details of its design, used still photographs from the opening scenes of Luchino Visconti's film ""Senso"" (1954), which had been filmed in the house. La Fenice reopened on 14 December 2003 with an inaugural concert of Beethoven, Wagner, and Stravinsky. The first staged opera was a production of ""La traviata"", in November 2004. Critical response to the rebuilt La Fenice was mixed. The music critic of the paper ""Il Tempo"", Enrico Cavalotti, was satisfied. He found the colours"
"Fenice"", like the mythical, immortal bird able to rise out of its own ashes, to symbolise the association's splendid rebirth after its misfortunes. The piece of land between Contrada Santa Maria Zobenigo and Contrada Sant'Angelo was bought for the purpose in 1790 and the private houses on it were demolished. A competition was then announced for the design of the opera house, and the committee of experts selected the work of the architect Giannantonio Selva from the 29 plans submitted. Work began in 1791 and was completed just 18 months later, in April 1792. ""La Fenice"" immediately made its mark"
"circumference of the upper part of the room, with access from the three doors on the top floor, in the gods bar. «As it was, where it was», the motto for reconstruction of La Fenice, called for the opera house to be rebuilt as it was before the 1996 fire. This principle, however, was seen applying only to the rooms of particular historic and artistic importance. The opportunity was therefore taken to redesign the parts of the building that did not come into this category, resulting in the creation of three new rooms. Donna Leon's debut novel, ""Death at La"
"In Italy, the Mabetex Group was responsible in the study and project for the refurbishment of the La Fenice theatre, an opera house in Venice, Italy, one of ""the most famous and renowned landmarks in the history of Italian theatre"" as well as those in Europe, after it was burned. This project also required the design of all the furniture. In the 1990s Mabetex hired roughly four to five thousand people from Kosovo each year. Once the war ended in 1999, Behgjet Pacolli decided to directly involve Mabetex in Kosovo by investing in critical infrastructure such as banking, insurance, hospitals,"
"house in 1836 and 1996. Unlike the other theaters in the city, whose entrances are in secluded places like ""calli"" and ""campielli"", La Fenice is the only historic Venetian theatre facing onto an open space, Campo San Fantin. It is also the only one to feature a colonnade in neo-classical style in its facade. This bears the theatre's insignia in the centre portraying the phoenix that rises from the flames, carved in 1837 to design by Giambattista Meduna. The facade features two statues in niches representing the muses of tragedy and dance: Melpomene and Terpsichore. Above them are the masks"
"La Fenice and witnessed the fire. Soon afterwards he created glassworks dedicated to the memory of the fire, in his own rendition of how the opera house burned. The book also tells the story of many American and English expatriates who went to live in Venice, from Daniel Curtis, who owned Palazzo Barbaro where Henry James and John Singer Sargent were guests, to the poet Ezra Pound, who lived the last part of his life in Venice with his long-time mistress Olga Rudge. Upon this book's release on September 27, 2005, it entered Amazon.com's Top Ten Bestsellers list and was"
"of operas, operettas, and even showed films for the first half of the 20th century. In 1992 the municipality of Venice purchased the theatre, and the action which they took—especially that following the destruction of the Teatro La Fenice in January 1996—is recounted on the Commune de Venezia's website: The Malibran became the temporary home to the Fenice orchestra and, after a decade of work, the 900-seat Malibran was re-opened on 23 May 2001 by President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, with a gala concert which included excerpts of operas by Verdi (the centennial of his death), by Bellini (the centennial of"
"to his chief rival, Pietro Bianchi. However, Selva's design and finished opera house appears to have been of high quality and the one best suited to the limitations of the physical space it was obliged to inhabit. Construction began in June 1790, and by May 1792 the theatre was completed. It was named ""La Fenice"", in reference to the company's survival, first of the fire, then of the loss of its former quarters. La Fenice was inaugurated on 16 May 1792, with an opera by Giovanni Paisiello entitled ""I giuochi d'Agrigento"" set to a libretto by Alessandro Pepoli. But no"
"to follow opera libretti in English and Italian in addition to the original language. The opera house re-opened on 7 December 2004 with a production, conducted by Riccardo Muti, of Salieri's ""Europa riconosciuta"", the opera performed at La Scala's inauguration in 1778. Tickets for the re-opening fetched up to €2,000. The renovations cost a reported €61 million, and left a budget shortfall that the opera house overcame in 2006. Carlo Fontana, the general manager of La Scala since 1990, was dismissed in February 2005 by the board of governors over differences with the music director, Riccardo Muti. The resulting staff"
"of melody one can catch. La Scala was originally illuminated with 84 oil lamps mounted on the stage and another thousand in the rest of theatre. To prevent the risks of fire, several rooms were filled with hundreds of water buckets. In time, oil lamps were replaced by gas lamps, these in turn were replaced by electric lights in 1883. The original structure was renovated in 1907, when it was given its current layout with 1,987 seats. In 1943, during World War II, La Scala was severely damaged by bombing. It was rebuilt and reopened on 11 May 1946, with"
"fire of 1996, however, destroyed these convases, bringing back to light some fragments of the original decoration by Casa, which have now been completed with a sinopia to assist their reading. The Sala Grande or ballroom is he main of the five Sale Apollinee, lit by the three windows in the middle of the entrance facade. Used over the years for different purposes, the Sala Grande was an elegant venue for balls, chamber music concerts and conferences or book launch, but also for musician's rehearsals, before La Fenice was provided with special rooms for these. It was also used by"
"reopening in 2004. The production was presented in Tokyo (2005) and in Beijing (2006) and has become established as the traditional season opener at La Fenice: the Carsen-Kinmonth production of La traviata was revived at the beginning of 2007/08, 2009/10, 2010/11, 2011/12 and 2012/13 seasons. In 2000, Kinmonth worked for the first time with the director Pierre Audi. Their production of Handel's Tamerlano for the Slottsteater, Drottningholm was tailored to suit the unique atmosphere and intimacy of Sweden's eighteenth-century theatre. Baroque repertoire has occupied the centre ground of Kinmonth's collaborations with Audi. They presented Handel's Alcina (2003) and Rameau's Zoroastre"
"sooner had the opera house been rebuilt than a legal dispute broke out between the company managing it and the owners, the Venier family. The issue was decided in favor of the Veniers. At the beginning of the 19th century, La Fenice acquired a European reputation. Rossini mounted two major productions there: ""Tancredi"" in 1813 and ""Semiramide"" in 1823. Two of Bellini's operas were given their premieres there: ""I Capuleti e i Montecchi"" in March 1830 and ""Beatrice di Tenda"" in March 1833. Donizetti, fresh from his triumphs at La Scala in Milan and at the Teatro di San Carlo"
"Teatro Comunale Alighieri The Teatro Comunale Alighieri is an opera house located at 2 Via Mariani in Ravenna, Italy and designed by the Venetian architects, Tommaso Meduna and his brother, Giambattista who had designed the second ""La Fenice"" theatre after the fire of 1836 . The new Teatro Comunale Alighieri was inaugurated on 15 May 1852 with a production of Meyerbeer's ""Robert le diable"", followed by Giovanni Pacini's ""Medea"". It presently offers a program of up to six operas during the season which runs from November to April. For about 125 years following 1723, Ravenna had one main theatre for"
"Lisbon in 1835, and in Madrid as ""La estranjera"" in January 1850. 20th century and beyond Following its last-known performance in 1875, the opera was first revived in April 1935 at La Scala with other revivals beginning in 1954 in Bellini's hometown of Catania. It was staged again between 1968 (at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo) up to 1972 with Renata Scotto in the title role. Since the 1970s the opera has made several appearances within Europe with Scotto again performing in Venice in 1970 under conductor Ettore Gracis, while in 1969 a concert performance at Carnegie Hall featured Montserrat"
"a musical revue. With the building in a fit state for performances, more musicians and singers made themselves available and the first opera performance was held on 26 December 1943, a matinee presentation of Puccini's ""La bohème"". Francis stayed on for another two years, producing 30 operas. By the start of the twenty-first century, the opera house was showing its age with outmoded stage machinery, inadequate visitor facilities, and lack of air conditioning. In response, the Campania regional government funded a €67 million renovation over six months in 2008 and six months in 2009 which included restoration of the décor"
"on 25 May 1874 and he announced in 1886 that La Scala would host the premiere of what was to become his penultimate opera, ""Otello"". The premiere of his last opera, ""Falstaff"" was also given in the theatre. In 1982, the Filarmonica della Scala was established, drawing its members from the larger pool of musicians that comprise the Orchestra della Scala. The theatre underwent a major renovation from early 2002 to late 2004. The theatre closed following the traditional 7 December 2001 season opening performances of ""Otello"", which ran through December. From 19 January 2002 to November 2004, the opera"
"in the typical horseshoe style. In 1974, the house was closed to complete renovations required by updated safety regulations, but cost over-runs, corruption, and political in-fighting all added to the delay and it remained closed for twenty-three years, finally re-opening on 12 May 1997, four days before its centenary. The opera season started again in 1999, although Verdi's ""Aida"" was performed in 1998 while work in progress continued. During the restoration regular opera seasons were performed in Teatro Politeama, a minor building not far from Teatro Massimo. In summer a few performances, usually concerts, ballet and operetta, are held in"
"2 of Puccini's ""La bohème"" were performed. A private concert to test the acoustics attended by employees, architects, and others involved in the renovation occurred on 6 May 2010. Teatro Colón The Teatro Colón (Spanish: ""Columbus Theatre"") is the main opera house in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is considered one of the ten best opera houses in the world by National Geographic, and is acoustically considered to be amongst the five best concert venues in the world. The other venues are Berlin's Konzerthaus, Vienna's Musikverein, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and Boston's Symphony Hall. The present Colón replaced an original theatre"
"la Bastille"", which had closed in 1969. The building was designed by a Uruguayan-Canadian Carlos Ott who had won a competition. The building was inaugurated on 13 July 1989, on the 200th anniversary of the storming of the Bastille, with a gala concert conducted by Georges Prêtre and featuring singers such as Teresa Berganza and Plácido Domingo. However, it did not see its first opera performance until 17 March 1990, with Berlioz' ""Les Troyens"", directed by Pier Luigi Pizzi. It is the largest opera house in Paris with 30 floors (10 floors in the basement), with each floor of area,"
"was later evoked in ""Don Checchino"", a bravura patter song composed by Raffaele Viviani for performance in his 1933 play ""L'ombra di Pulcinella"". The opera's first performance in modern times took place on 25 September 2014 in the court theatre of the Royal Palace of Naples, the former home of Ferdinand II. The revival was a co-production by the Teatro San Carlo in Naples and the Festival della Valle d'Itria in Martina Franca. It was performed using a critical edition of the score by Lorenzo Fico and was directed by Lorenzo Amato who updated the time setting from 1800 to"
"however, operatic tastes had changed, and the opera became performed more sporadically. The 1990s saw a resurgence of interest in ""Fedora"", with new productions at the Vienna Staatsoper, La Scala, New York's Metropolitan Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the Washington National Opera and the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. Notable singers in post-1990 productions include Mirella Freni, Renata Scotto, Agnes Baltsa, Katia Ricciarelli, and Maria Guleghina as Fedora; and Plácido Domingo, José Carreras, and José Cura as Loris. Among ""Fedora's"" most recent performances are those at the Vienna Staatsoper in 2003, La Scala in 2004,"
"through several cities in Chile: Valparaíso, Viña del Mar, Concepción and Santiago, the capital. Its debut was considered a great success. In 1986, a new version of this children's opera was played in Colombia. In 1998, 25 years after Jorge Peña Hen's assassination by Chile's military coup officials, another version was re-made in La Serena. In 2004, a new staging by Fondazione Teatro La Fenice, and in 2005 by University of Chile's Theatre in Santiago, Chile. The plot of the opera is based on Charles Perrault's classic fairy tale ""Cinderella"". La Cenicienta La Cenicienta (""Cinderella"") is an opera in three"
"and the creation of a new rehearsal hall. As noted in ""Gramophone"" magazine, the opera house reopened on 27 January 2010 with Mozart's ""La Clemenza di Tito"", the 254th anniversary of the composer's birth: ""The renovation work was completed last year under the direction of architect Elisabetta Fabbri and is intended to return Teatro San Carlo to its condition following Antonio Niccolini's rebuilding after the fire of 1816. The project...involved 300 workers day and night. At the time, Neapolitan School of opera enjoyed great success all over Europe, not only in the field of opera buffa but also in that"
"in 1983, but it was refurbished and reopened in the year 2000. It is now one of four auditoriums in the city, with the Auditorium, the ""Sperimentale,"" and the San Marco theater. The city is also the site of the Bonporti music conservatory, which hosts an annual ""Mondi Sonori"" (Worlds of Sound) festival as well as the International Antonio Pedrotti Orchestral Conducting Competition. The nearby town of Ala is the site of the Antique Piano Museum. It is a private museum, housed on the premises of the ""Palazzo de' Pizzini-di Lenna"", an edifice from the 17th century and one that"
"and 1892. It was also performed in Melbourne, Australia, in July 1866. The opera was enormously successful in the 19th century, but along with Meyerbeer's other operas,it fell into almost complete neglect in the 20th century, except for very occasional revivals. Plácido Domingo has sung it in at least two productions: a revival at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco that premiered on November 13, 1973, with Shirley Verrett; and in 1977 at the Liceu in Barcelona, with Montserrat Caballé. To mark the 150th anniversary of Meyerbeer's death, the work was performed again at La Fenice in November"
"in the next year at the Teatre of Bonn and Trier until the year 2000 where he, at the same time, was invited to sing in famous Theatres located in Berlin, Köln, Hamburg and Baden-Baden interpreting many diverse roles. Presently he is continuously performing in outstanding opera theaters located in Costa Rica, Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina, Panama and Mexico. He also has sung in the Covent Garden, Copenhagen Opera House, “La Fenice” in Venice, Teatro Filarmonico (Verona), “Teatro di San Carlo” (Napoles), Teatro Politeama (Palermo), Teatro Massimo Bellini (Catania), San Francisco Opera House, Washington Opera, Opéra de Marseille and Montpellier among"
"La Scala's 2001/2002 opera season. Following La Scala reopening on 7 December 2004, Teatro degli Arcimboldi expanded its program, hosting performances of jazz, classical and pop music. Notes Sources Teatro degli Arcimboldi The Teatro degli Arcimboldi is a theatre and opera house in Milan. It was built over a 27-month period in anticipation of the closure and subsequent nearly three-year-long renovation of Milan's La Scala opera house in December 2001. It is located 4.5 miles from the city centre in a converted Pirelli tire factory, in an area known as Bicocca. Designed by Vittorio Gregotti in collaboration with Mario Botta"
"The government offered ""eternal"" property over twenty lodges and the right of inheritance. Later, in agreement with the owners, they are redeemed. The reconstruction, completed in 1882, keeps the original Renaissance style of the façade. After the second fire, which takes place in 1920, only the lateral wings remain intact. The reconstruction of the building begins on July 15, 1923, by architect Duiliu Marcu. On December 20, 1989, during the Romanian Revolution, a crowd of 40,000 gathered in the open space in front of the opera house. Some managed to enter the building through the rear, and a succession of"
"in la Rambla, in downtown Barcelona. The building has only two façades as the other two sides were limited, until 1994, by dwelling buildings. Some parts of the first building remain: The auditorium is huge. Rebuilt after the 1994 fire it is a faithful rebuilding of the 1861 auditorium with some improvements. With 2,292 seats it is one of the biggest opera houses in Europe. It is a typical Italian horseshoe-shaped theatre. Maximum length and width are 33 and 27 m. There is a platea (main floor) and five tiers (or balconies). Boxes, with small rooms attached, are in the"
"in 1999, the New Israeli Opera in 2000, Los Angeles Opera in 2001, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in 2002, and the Choir and Orchestra of the Municipal Theatre of Santiago in 2003, with a staging of Sergio Ortega's ""Fulgor y Muerte de Joaquín Murieta"", after a libretto by Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda. Savonlinna Opera Festival Savonlinna Opera Festival () is held annually in the city of Savonlinna in Finland. The Festival takes place at the medieval Olavinlinna (St. Olaf's Castle), built in 1475. The castle is located amid spectacular lake scenery. The birth of the Savonlinna Opera Festival"