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12 Facts About La Fenice

1.

Teatro La Fenice is an opera house in Venice, Italy.

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Especially in the 19th century, La Fenice became the site of many famous operatic premieres at which the works of several of the four major bel canto era composers – Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi – were performed.

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La Fenice immediately made its mark as one of the leading opera houses, noted in Italy and Europe both for the high artistic quality of its work and the splendour of its building.

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4.

Once again La Fenice rose again, faithfully reconstructed to a plan by the architect Aldo Rossi, and was reopened on 14 December 2003.

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5.

La Fenice rose from its ashes to open its doors on the evening of 26 December 1837.

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Giuseppe Verdi's association with La Fenice began in 1844, with the premiere performance of Ernani during the carnival season.

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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, which had been filmed in the house.

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La Fenice reopened on 14 December 2003 with an inaugural concert of Beethoven, Wagner, and Stravinsky.

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9.

La Fenice found the colours a bit bright but the sound good and compact.

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10.

La Fenice said that "the city should have had the nerve to build a completely new theater; Venice betrayed its innovative past by ignoring it".

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11.

Unlike the other theaters in the city, whose entrances are in secluded places like alleys and small squares, La Fenice is the only historic Venetian theatre facing onto an open space, Campo San Fantin.

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12.

La Fenice performed a series of dances in Ballet Royal de la Nuit, in the final piece as Apollo in a costume with a kilt of golden rays—and thus became known as the Sun King.

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