The Teatro San Angelo (in Venetian) 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 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 and the Capellos. The house was opened with the opera ''Helena rapita da Paride'' of Domenico Freschi, (1677) and continued with operas by Freschi, Gasparini, Albinoni and Bononcini. From around 1715 onwards the house was best known as the venue of many of the operas of

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.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 Casanova 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 be ...

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

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*''Helena rapita da Paride'' Domenico Freschi, 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, 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''

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, 1689 *''Il trionfo dell'innocenza''

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

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, 1698 *''Diomede punito da Alcide'' Tomaso Albinoni, 1700 *''L'inganno innocente'' Tomaso Albinoni, 1701 *''Tiberio imperatore d'Oriente'' Francesco Gasparini, 1702 *''Giuseppe Boniventi'' di Giuseppe Boniventi, 1702 *''Farnace''

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, 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''

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, 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, 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

, 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'' Fortunato Chelleri, 1722 *''Timocrate''

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, 1723 *''Medea e Giasone'' Francesco Brusa, 1726 *''Gl'odelusi dal sangue'' Baldassare Galuppi e Giovanni Battista Pescetti, 1728 *''Dorinda'' Baldassare Galuppi e Giovanni Battista Pescetti, 1729 *''I tre difensori della patria'' Giovanni Battista Pescetti, 1729 *''Elenia''

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

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

, 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, 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''

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

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, 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''

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

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