The Social Theater of Trento celebrated the bicentenary with a fabulous evening concert offered to the public Thursday 12 September by the Haydn Orchestra.
(In photo: poster of the program).
Given the important city event, even the artist and Master Decorator Gentile Polo could not miss the Birthday concert of our beloved Social Theater of Trento (Italy).
It must be said that before the nineteenth century the theatrical life of Trento revolved around the small Hoseli theater in Piazza Mostra, which came to no longer satisfy the catchment area.
In 1815 the rich sweets and coffee merchant Felice Mazzurana rented the Europa inn with the small theater attached. Two years later he developed his idea of bringing prestige to his name and to the city by proposing a new city theater.
The first proposal was to renovate the pre-existing building but the Public Building Authority – Direction of the Factories was intent on demolishing it and constructing the stalls and stage in line with the entrance.
Not finding agreements, the project was abandoned and the building sold to third parties to obtain a price higher than agreed with Felice Mazzurana.
The merchant did not lose heart and proposed to build the new city theater in the courtyard of Palazzo Festi, a large inner courtyard enclosed by service buildings.
Finally in September 1817 the Imperial Captains and the Factory Directorate approved the project and with the economic support of the local wealthy families, took off: it was entrusted to the Architect Giuseppe Maria Ducati and modified during construction, enlarging it and incorporating the entire eastern area of the Count Tommaso Festi Palace.
La prima pietra venne posta il 12 Febbraio del 1818 per il compleanno dell’imperatore Francesco II,
“The declarations and scenarios will be painted by Mr. Baldessare and the ornaments will be entrusted to the painter Giuseppe Ambrosi.” (Statement of Felice Mazzurana filed with the Regional Enterprise Engineer C. Ducati)
and on May 29th 1819 the Mazzurana Theater of Trento was finally inaugurated with the “Cinderella” by Gioacchino Rossini.
After 1833, Vincenzo Panicali and Albino Candelpergher were purchased by the entrepreneurs, who sold it two years later to the Società dei Palchettisti (Society of Pitchers) who assigned it the current name of Teatro Sociale (Social Theater).
The use as a warehouse during the First World War damaged it in its original structures and from 1924 to 1937 the Theater Company reduced its use to cinema and then sold it to the Zuliani – Lazzari family, which remained the owner until the recent 1984 with the purchase and restoration by the Autonomous Province of Trento.
Two hundred years after the inauguration, various celebrations followed during the year, culminating with the free evening concert offered yesterday by the Haydn orchestra of Trento and Bolzano, guided by the skilful art of the Orchestra Director Alessandro Cadario.
(In photo: the artist and master Decoratore Gentile Polo attends the symphonic concert of the Haydn orchestra of Trento and Bolzano for the celebrations of the 200th anniversary of the foundation of the Social Theater).
Great admirer of good music in every genre, from the modern to the classic, the artist Gentile Polo could not miss the evening proposed by the Haydn orchestra of Trento and Bolzano and from the front row of the Stage 1 Order III he tasted from above the whole concert.
Two symphonic pieces proposed by the master Alessandro Cadario: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Symphony number 38 in RE MAGGIORE K504 and the” Symphony number 3 in MI BEMOLLE MAGGIORE, opera 55 by Ludwig Van Beethoven.
The “Symphony number 38 in RE MAGGIORE K504” takes place in an Adagio – Allegro, continues Andante and culminates in a Finale Presto. Prague was renamed given the success achieved in that city by the composition of Mozart.
The “Symphony number 3 in MI BEMOLLE MAGGIORE, work 55 of Beethoven instead part Allegra con brio, continues with a very funeral march very slowly, reveals the lively Allegro joke and culminates in an Allegro very – very little going, and was said Eroica in honor to Napoleon.
The symphonic concert directed by Alessandro Cadario was widely public and the Haydn orchestra received long and enthusiastic applause.
All that remains is to wish both future successes to both, and a long activity at our historic town theater!
(Lucia Martorelli – Gentile Polo Art Studio)
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