TEATRI E TEATRINI

The exhibition presents a selection of materials related to the history of theatre, including several sets of scenographic drawings: from the works by Filippo Juvarra for Cardinal Ottoboni’s theatre contained in the first two volumes of drawings by the architect from Messina, to the scenographic sketches by the Galli da Bibiena, the brothers Bernardino, Fabrizio and Giuseppe Galliari, Pietro Gonzaga and Romolo Liverani, created for operas set to music staged in the theatres of Torino, Milan and Parma from 1750 to the whole of the following century.

Next to these graphic masterpieces are Giovanni Michele Graneri’s painting depicting the interior of Turin’s Teatro Regio with the performance of Lucio Papirio in 1752, and the fan depicting the Teatro Regio and Teatro Carignano with the boxes and names of the occupants in the 1780 - 1781 theatre season.