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In the heart of Florence since 1854 The largest "Italian-style" theatre in Tuscany is located in Florence , in the historic Santa Croce district, and it hosts all kinds of entertainment. Owned by the ORT Foundation , it is the permanent home of the Orchestra della Toscana (Orchestra of Tuscany).
It is conceived as an educational path to discover the places and artists who gave life to the monumental complex of the Opera, the cradle of the Renaissance, and it is today one of the most important museums in the world, both for the value and the number of works of art kept inside, as well as for the architectural and technological avant ...
Stories, places and works of art of the monumental complex of the Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence in the life ... The floor of Santa Maria del Fiore: the marble carpet for the Grand Duke's Cathedral
The Teatro Comunale di Firenze is an opera house in Florence, Italy. It was originally built as the open-air amphitheatre, the Politeama Fiorentino Vittorio Emanuele, which was inaugurated on 17 May 1862 with a production of Donizetti 's Lucia di Lammermoor and which seated 6,000 people.
- Ground Floor
- Moving on to The First Floor
- Climbing to The Second Floor
- The Last of The Recent Changes
Entrance
The light and space are stunning. You are immediately greeted by one of the colossal pieces of art that once graced the interior of the Baptistery. The main altar by Girolamo Ticciati (1676-1745) which was completed in 1732: Saint John in Glory and candle-bearing angels. It was taken out of the building so that the medieval altar could be restored to its original position.
Opera Corridor
Perhaps the profound importance the Cathedral had on the people of Florence is found written on this wall, naming but a few of the 1000’s of people who contributed to its building, growth, expansion, decoration and preservation, including architects, artists, musicians, humanists, artisans and workmen. As you walk by you will years worth of names who have worked in the duomo of Florence.
Sculpture Gallery
A church that had an abundance of sculpture decorations was a sign of wealth and God’s blessings, and the Sculpture Gallery testifies to Florence’s growing importance in being able to keep pace with the other monumental churches. Especially the cathedrals being built throughout Europe which boast a wide collection of many Gothic sculptures. In this room you can also admire the rarely seen reverse side of the Baptistery doors.
The expert skill of a sculptor was to carve a statue that when seen from the ground, would appear “normal”. Many times the gazer can not even distinguish the adjustments & distortions the artist made so that the hand looked proportionate to the nose and to the foot - both seen at different heights and distances. The various windows on the first and...
There are several sets of stairs throughout the first floor which will take you to the next level, I must admit I had the faint sensation that they changed direction (like the magical steps in Harry Potter) and frequently led me to a dead end, but just in case you need it there is an elevator at the end of the Galleria della Cupola and another to t...
On the ground floor you will find a fully furnished book shop with many titles and ideas for adults and children to continue your education on the details, artists and designs of the Duomo. There is a small cafe, with the same luminous decoroverlooking the back side of the cathedral, and its fabulous colored marble covering. The museum organizes ne...
The history of opera has a relatively short duration within the context of the history of music in general: it appeared in 1597, when the first opera, Dafne, by Jacopo Peri, was created. Since then it has developed parallel to the various musical currents that have followed one another over time up to the present day, generally ...
The focus of the exhibition at Casa Buonarroti is the birth of opera, between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Florence, in relation to the multifaceted figure of Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger.
