Pietro Magri

Review of Teatro di San Carlo

Italian lyric temple, with a date of birth that an...

Italian lyric temple, with a date of birth that anticipates the Scala of Milan by 41 years and the Fenice of Venice by 55. The Teatro di San Carlo was built in 1737, by the will of King Charles III of Bourbon strongly intent on giving the city a new theater that represented the royal power. The project is entrusted to the architect Giovanni Antonio Medrano, Spanish Colonel Brigadier stationed in Naples, and to Angelo Carasale, former director of San Bartolomeo, who completes the "real factory" in about eight months at a cost of 75 thousand ducats.