Teatro Olimpico Vicenza.wmv
Produzione Agi - 2009
a cura di: Marcy Monetti
Produzione esecutiva: Gabriele Giorgio
Supervisore di postproduzione: Gabriele Giorgio
Teatro Olimpico: Vicenza
Palladio’s Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza is a masterpiece. Imagine a Roman style amphitheatre that’s been transplanted indoors, a Roman theatre stage with a Porta regia (triumphal arch) and trompe l’oeil street views that give the illusion of looking down the streets of a city from classical antiquity ((it was originally intended to represent Thebes in Oedipus Rex)). Although the Teatro Olimpico was built during the Renaissance period, the structure takes us way back in time. As one travel presenter puts it, “Illusion becomes pure theater in Teatro Olimpico”.
Teatro Olimpico was Andrea Palladio's last work. Having returned to his native Vicenza in 1579, he was commissioned by the Accademia Olimpica, a cultural group which he was a member of, to build a theatre in 1580. Palladio was very much inspired by Roman classical theatres. Six months after construction had started in 1580, he died unexpectedly at the age of 72.
Vincenzo Scamozzi, another accomplished Vicenza architect, was engaged to complete the project. Scamozzi had inherited several of Palladio's unfinished projects, so he was no stranger to Palladio's designs. Teatro Olimpico is often described as one of Vicenza's artistic wonders. It was Scamozzi's genius that made the building into the UNESCO World Heritage listed site that it is today.
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History of Theatre 5 - The Illusion Illustrated, Teatro Olimpico, Vicenza and Sabbioneta (Eng. Esp.)
On the two oldest remaining theatres in Europe after the Romans. These theatres have a permanent scenery (Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza and in Sabbioneta, both in Nothern Italy).
Spanish translation: Jc m edu (thanks!)
Pesonae:
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (c. 90-20 BC); Sebastiano Serlio (1475-1556); Baldassare Peruzi (1481-1537); Andrea Palladio (1508-1580); Vincenzo Scamozzi (1548-1616)
Subjects:
Roman theater, skenotheke, stage, orchestra, auditorium, collonade, mathematical perspective, backdrop, scenery flats, vanishing point, l'œil du prince, scaenae frons, porta regia, false perspective scenery, oil-lamps, vista's.
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Vicenza - Teatro Olimpico
ANDREA BACCHETTI PLAYS BACH AT TEATRO OLIMPICO, VICENZA
Bach
Keyboard Concerto n.4 in A BWV 1055
I. Allegro
II. Larghetto 5:03
III. Allegro ma non tanto 10:30
Keyboard Concerto n.3 in D BWV 1054
I. [Allegro] 15:30
II. Adagio e piano sempre 23:00
III. Allegro 28:48
Keyboard Concerto n.7 in g minor BWV 1058
I. [Allegro] 32:15
II. Andante 35:54
III. Allegro assai 42:17
Encore:
Liszt Consolation n.3 in D flat 47:31
Andrea Bacchetti, piano & conductor
Enrico Casazza, Maestro Concertatore
Teatro Olimpico Orchestra
25 May 2013
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Places to see in ( Vicenza - Italy ) Teatro Olimpico
The Teatro Olimpico is a theatre in Vicenza, northern Italy, constructed in 1580-1585. The theatre was the final design by the Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio and was not completed until after his death. The trompe-l'œil onstage scenery, designed by Vincenzo Scamozzi, to give the appearance of long streets receding to a distant horizon, was installed in 1585 for the very first performance held in the theatre, and is the oldest surviving stage set still in existence. The full Roman-style scaenae frons back screen across the stage is made from wood and stucco imitating marble. It was the home of the Accademia Olimpica, which was founded there in 1555.
The Teatro Olimpico is, along with the Teatro all'antica in Sabbioneta and the Teatro Farnese in Parma, one of only three Renaissance theatres remaining in existence. Both these theatres were based, in large measure, on the Teatro Olimpico. It is still used several times a year. Since 1994, the Teatro Olimpico, together with other Palladian buildings in and around Vicenza, has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto.
The Teatro Olimpico is the last work by Palladio, and ranks amongst his highest masterworks. The Vicentine architect had returned to his native city in 1579, bringing with him a lifetime of detailed study into all aspects of Roman architecture, and a more detailed understanding of the architecture of classical theatre than any other living person. Palladio had illustrated Daniele Barbaro's Italian translation of Vitruvius' De architectura; the prints for this edition include floorplans for Roman theatres and an elevation for the scaenae frons of Vicenza's ruined Roman theatre, the Teatro Berga. As well, Palladio's papers include plans for the imagined reconstruction of the ruined Roman theatres in Pola and Verona.
Palladio, a founder of the Olympic Academy (the Accademia Olimpica, created in 1555), had already designed temporary theatre structures at various locations in the city. The most notable of these had been erected some seventeen years previously in the great hall of the Basilica Palladiana. In 1579 the Academy obtained the rights to build a permanent theatre in an old fortress, the Castello del Territorio, which had been turned into a prison and powder magazine before falling into disuse. Palladio was asked to produce a design, and despite the awkward shape of the old fortress, he decided to use the space to recreate an academic reconstruction of the Roman theatres that he had so closely studied. In order to fit a stage and seating area into the wide, shallow space, it was necessary for Palladio to flatten the semicircular seating area of the Roman theatre into an ellipse.
The Teatro Olimpico is still used for plays and musical performances, but audience sizes are limited to 400, for conservation reasons. Performances take place in two theatre seasons—classical plays in the autumn and the festival Il Suono dell'Olimpico in the spring. It is not equipped with heating or air conditioning, which could damage the delicate wooden structures. Every June until the school year 2012-2013, the theatre is used for the graduation ceremony for students from the American Department of Defense high school in Vicenza.
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