The Teatro San Angelo (in Venetian dialect) or Teatro Sant' Angelo (in Italian) was once a theatre in Venice which ran from 1677 until 1803. It was the last of the major Venetian theatres to be built in the 1650s–60s opera craze following Teatro Santi Giovanni e Paolo in 1654, Teatro San Samuele 1655, Teatro San Salvatore 1661,

Teatro San Giovanni Crisostomo The Teatro Malibran, known over its lifetime by a variety of names, beginning with the Teatro San Giovanni Grisostomo (or Crisostomo) after the nearby church,Lynn 2005, pp. 101—103 is an opera house in Venice which was inaugurated in 1678 with a ...

in 1667. The Teatro San Angelo was located in the Campo San 'Angelo, facing the Grand Canal and Rialto Bridge, on the sites of two demolished palazzi belonging to the Marcellos and Capellos. The project was completed in 1676 by Francesco Santorini, and opened in 1677 under the families of

Benedetto Marcello Benedetto Giacomo Marcello (; 31 July or 1 August 1686 – 24 July 1739) was an Italian composer, writer, advocate, magistrate, and teacher. Life Born in Venice, Benedetto Marcello was a member of a noble family and in his compositions he is f ...

and the Capellos. The house was opened with the opera ''Helena rapita da Paride'' of

Domenico Freschi Giovanni Domenico Freschi (26 March 1634 – 2 July 1710) was an Italian composer and Roman Catholic priest. From the age of 22 until his death he worked as a church musician and composer in Vincenza. He was also active as an opera composer from ...

, (1677) and continued with operas by Freschi, Gasparini,

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and

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. From around 1715 onwards the house was best known as the venue of many of the operas of Antonio Vivaldi.John Booth ''Vivaldi'' 1989 "On 4 February 1715 he on Uffenbachreturned, as he reports in his diary: I went with several acquaintances to the Teatro San Angelo, which was smaller but also not so costly as the one I have described above. Its impresario was the famous Vivaldi, ..." Under Vivaldi the opera house became increasingly populist and commercial. Soon theatre was home to the operas of Baldassare Galuppi, (''Argenide'' 1733), and plays of Goldoni. In the 1790s the Abate Pietro Chiari wrote for the Teatro San Angelo, and in 1797

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wrote an attack on Chiari incurring the enmity of Antonio Condulmer, co-owner of the theatre and a member of the

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. At this point the theatre was in terminal decline. The theatre closed in 1803 and was converted into a warehouse. It was then demolished and rebuilt as the Barocci Palazzo, today the four star Hotel NH Collection Palazzo Barocci.

Selected premieres

* The first opera of

Antonio Lotti Antonio Lotti (5 January 1667 – 5 January 1740) was an Italian composer of the Baroque era. Biography Lotti was born in Venice, although his father Matteo was '' Kapellmeister'' at Hanover at the time. Oral tradition says that in 1682, Lotti ...

: ''Il trionfo dell'innocenza'' 1693 * Play ''La locandiera'' by

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*''Helena rapita da Paride''

, 1677 *''Tullia superba'' Domenico Freschi, 1678 *''La Circe'' Domenico Freschi, 1679 *''Sardanapalo'' Domenico Freschi, 1679 *''Pompeo Magno in Cilicia'' Domenico Freschi, 1681 *''Olimpia vendicata'' Domenico Freschi, 1681 *''Giulio Cesare trionfante'' Domenico Freschi, 1682 *''Silla'' Domenico Freschi, 1683 *''Apio Claudio'' Marco Martini, 1683 *''L'incoronatione di Dario'' Domenico Freschi, 1684 *''Teseo tra le rivali'' Domenico Freschi, 1685 *''Falarido tiranno d'Agrigento''

Giovanni Battista Bassani Giovanni Battista Bassani (c. 1650 – 1 October 1716) was an Italian composer, violinist, and organist. Biography Bassani was born in Padua. It is thought that he studied in Venice under Daniele Castrovillari and in Ferrara under Giovanni L ...

, 1685 *''Il vitio depresso e la virtù coronata'' di Teofilo Orgiani, 1686 *''Il Dioclete'' Teofilo Orgiani, 1687 *''La fortuna tra le disgratie'' Paolo Biagio, 1688 *''La Rosaura'' Giacomo Antonio Perti, 1689 *''Il trionfo dell'innocenza''

, 1693 *''Il principe selvaggio'' Michelangelo Gasparini, 1696 *''Radamisto''

Tomaso Albinoni Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni (8 June 1671 – 17 January 1751) was an Italian composer of the Baroque era. His output includes operas, concertos, sonatas for one to six instruments, sinfonias, and solo cantatas. While famous in his day as an opera comp ...

, 1698 *''Diomede punito da Alcide'' Tomaso Albinoni, 1700 *''L'inganno innocente'' Tomaso Albinoni, 1701 *''Tiberio imperatore d'Oriente''

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, 1702 *''Giuseppe Boniventi'' di Giuseppe Boniventi, 1702 *''Farnace''

Antonio Caldara Antonio Caldara (ca 1670 – 28 December 1736) was an Italian Baroque composer. Life Caldara was born in Venice (exact date unknown), the son of a violinist. He became a chorister at St Mark's in Venice, where he learned several instruments, ...

, 1703 *''Pirro'' Giuseppe Antonio Vincenzo Aldrovandini, 1704 *''Virginio consolo'' Antonio Giannettini, 1704 *''Artaserse'' Antonio Giannettini, 1705 *''Creso tolto alle fiamme'' Girolamo Polani, 1705 *''La regina creduta re''

Giovanni Bononcini Giovanni Bononcini (or Buononcini) (18 July 1670 – 9 July 1747) (sometimes cited also as Giovanni Battista Bononcini) was an Italian Baroque composer, cellist, singer and teacher, one of a family of string players and composers. Biography E ...

, 1706 *''La fede tra gl'inganni'' Tomaso Albinoni, 1707 *''Ifiginia'' Agostino Bonaventura Coletti, 1707 *''Armida al campo'' Giuseppe Boniventi, 1708 *''L'Endimione'' Giuseppe Boniventi, 1709 *''Il tradimento premiato'' Girolamo Polani, 1709 *''Berengario re d'Italia'' Girolamo Polani, 1709 *''Circe delusa'' Giuseppe Boniventi, 1711 *''La costanza in cimento con la crudeltà'' Floriano Arresti, 1712 *''Le passioni per troppo amore'' Johann David Heinichen, 1713 *''Nerone fatto Cesare'' Francesco Gasparini, 1715 *''Rodomento sdegnato'' Michelangelo Gasparini, 1715 *''Alessandro fra le Amazoni'' di

Fortunato Chelleri Fortunato Chelleri (originally: Keller, also: Kelleri, Kellery, Cheler) (May or June 1690 in Parma – 11 December 1757 in Kassel) was a Baroque Kapellmeister and composer. Biography Chelleri's father had emigrated from Germany to Italy ...

, 1715 *''L'amor di figlio non conosciuto'' di Tomaso Albinoni, 1716 *''Penelope la casta'' Fortunato Chelleri, 1717 *''Meleagro'' Tomaso Albinoni, 1718 *''Cleomene'' Tomaso Albinoni, 1718 *''La caduta di Gelone'' Giuseppe Maria Buini, 1719 *''Amalasunta'' Fortunato Chelleri, 1719 *''Il pentimento generoso'' Andrea Stefano Fiorè, 1719 *''Armida delusa'' Giuseppe Maria Buini, 1720 *''Filippo re Macedonia'' Giuseppe Boniventi e Antonio Vivaldi, 1720 *''Il pastor fido'' Carlo Luigi Pietragrua, 1721 *''Melinda e Tiburzio'' Giuseppe Maria Orlandini, 1721 *''La fede ne' tradimenti'' Carlo Luigi Pietragrua, 1721 *''Gli eccessi della gelosia''

, 1722 *''L'amor tirannico''

, 1722 *''Timocrate''

Leonardo Leo Leonardo Leo (5 August 1694 – 31 October 1744), more correctly Leonardo Ortensio Salvatore de Leo, was a Baroque composer. Biography Leo was born in San Vito degli Schiavoni (currently known as San Vito dei Normanni, province of Brindisi) in ...

, 1723 *''Medea e Giasone'' Francesco Brusa, 1726 *''Gl'odelusi dal sangue'' Baldassare Galuppi e

Giovanni Battista Pescetti Giovanni Battista Pescetti (c. 170420 March 1766) was an organist, harpsichordist, and composer known primarily for his operas and keyboard sonatas. Musicologist and University of California, Santa Barbara professor John E. Gillespie wrote that Pes ...

, 1728 *''Dorinda'' Baldassare Galuppi e

, 1729 *''I tre difensori della patria''

, 1729 *''Elenia''

, 1730 *''Gli sponsali d'Enea'' Bartolomeo Cordans, 1731 *''Ardelinda''

, 1732 *''Grullo e Moschetta'' Giuseppe Maria Orlandini, 1732 *''Alessandro nelle Indie''

, 1732 *''L'ortolana contessa'' Giuseppe Maria Buini e altri, 1732 *''La caduta Leone, imperator d'Oriente'' Giuseppe Antonio Paganelli, 1732 *''Argenide'' Baldassare Galuppi, 1733 *''Ginestra e Lichetto'' Giuseppe Antonio Paganelli, 1733 *''L'ambizione depressa'' Baldassare Galuppi, 1733 *''Tigrane'' Giuseppe Antonio Paganelli, 1733 *''Motezuma'' Antonio Vivaldi, 1733 *''Candalide''

, 1734 *''Tamiri'' Baldassare Galuppi, 1734 *''Lucio Vero'' Francesco Araja, 1735 *''Elisa regina Tiro'' Baldassare Galuppi, 1736 *''Ergilda'' Baldassare Galuppi, 1736 *''Artaserse Longimano'' Antonio Gaetano Pampani, 1737 *''Ezio'' Giovanni Battista Lampugnani, 1737 *''Argenide'' Pietro Chiarini, 1738 *''Achille in Sciro'' Pietro Chiarini, 1739 *''Candaspe (Campaspe) regina de' Sciti'' Giovanni Battista Casali, 1740 *''Berenice'' Baldassare Galuppi, 1741 *''Artamene''

, 1741 *''Il vincitor se stesso'' Ignazio Fiorillo, 1741 *''L'impresario delle Isole Canarie''

, 1741 *''Ambleto'' Giuseppe Carcani, 1742 *''Armida''

Ferdinando Bertoni Ferdinando Bertoni (15 August 1725 – 1 December 1813) was an Italian composer and organist. Early years He was born in Salò, and began his music studies in Brescia, not far from his birthplace. Around 1740 he went to Bologna, where he studied ...

, 1746 *''La caduta d'Amulio'' Antonio Gaetano Pampani, 1746 *''Scipione nelle Spagne'' Baldassare Galuppi, 1746 *''Il re dispietato'' Giuseppe Maria Buini, 1747 *''Tigrane'' Giovanni Battista Lampugnani, 1747 *''L'Arcadia in Brenta'' Baldassare Galuppi, 1749 *''Amor contadino'' Giovanni Battista Lampugnani, 1760 *''Amore in caricatura'' Vincenzo Legrenzio Ciampi, 1761 *''L'amore artigiano''

Gaetano Latilla __NOTOC__ Gaetano Latilla (12 January 1711 – 15 January 1788) was an Italian opera composer, the most important of the period immediately preceding Niccolò Piccinni (his nephew). Latilla was born in Bari, and studied at the Loreto Conservator ...

, 1761 *''Siface'' Domenico Fischietti, 1761 *''Li scherzi d'amore'' Francesco Maggiore, 1762 *'' Tieste''

Ugo Foscolo Ugo Foscolo (; 6 February 177810 September 1827), born Niccolò Foscolo, was an Italian writer, revolutionary and a poet. He is especially remembered for his 1807 long poem ''Dei Sepolcri''. Early life Foscolo was born in Zakynthos in the Io ...

, 1797 *''Riverente gratulazione per le glorie Francesco II'' Francesco Gardi, 1799 *''Il medico a suo dispetto, ossia La muta per amore'' Francesco Gardi, 1800 *''Il carretto del venditore d'aceto''

Johann Simon Mayr Johann(es) Simon Mayr (also spelled Majer, Mayer, Maier), also known in Italian as Giovanni Simone Mayr or Simone Mayr (14 June 1763 – 2 December 1845), was a German composer. His music reflects the transition from the Classical to the ...

, 1800 *''La casa da vendere'' Giuseppe Antonio Capuzzi or Francesco Gardi, 1804

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