Goldoni without Scaffolding

The Goldoni Theater, at last without scaffolding... (Already posted on Instagram)
Il Teatro Goldoni, finalmente senza impalcature... (Già pubblicato su Instagram)

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Post 3,628 of 3,665 - This blog will end on December 31st

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Our farewell / Il nostro saluto

Theater's Portico

The entrance of the Goldoni theater, Via Goldoni. (Already posted on Instagram)
L'ingresso del teatro Goldoni, via Goldoni. (Già pubblicato su Instagram)

The Courtyard of the Theater

The courtyard on the left side of the Goldoni theater, with the loading zone, the safety stairs and the access to the stage. (Already posted on Instagram)
Il cortile sul lato sinistro del teatro Goldoni, con la zona di carico, le scale di sicurezza e l'accesso al palcoscenico. (Già pubblicato su Instagram)

Teatrofficina Refugio

Refugio Workshop-Theater (Occupied, self-managed, anti-Fascist), Palazzo del Refugio, Scali del Refugio.
Teatrofficina Refugio (Occupato, autogestito, antifascista), Palazzo del Refugio, scali del Refugio.

Scaffolding

Decorations on the scaffolding around the Goldoni Theater. (Already posted on Instagram)
Decorazioni sull'impalcatura intorno al Teatro Goldoni. (Già pubblicato su Instagram)

Caserma Rimediotti

The former Rimediotti fire station, now used as an ancillary building for the Goldoni theater. (Already posted on Instagram)
L'ex caserma (dei Vigili del Fuoco) Rimediotti, oggi utilizzata come edificio di servizio per il teatro Goldoni. (Già pubblicato su Instagram)

Chandelier

The beautiful chandelier in the foyer of the Teatro Goldoni.

See also: Teatro Goldoni - Inside the Goldoni - Behind the Scenes - Around the Goldoni

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Red Velvet

A view of the interior of the Teatro Goldoni.

See also: Teatro Goldoni - Inside the Goldoni - Behind the Scenes - Around the Goldoni

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Bridge with a Window

A bridge between the main building of the Teatro Goldoni and its annex in the former Rimediotti firehouse.

See also: Caffè Palcoscenico

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Cinema Moderno

Works for the demolition of another former movie theater have recently bugun. The “Moderno” will soon have a new life as a parking, which is not much, but always better than what it was recently left of it.

See also: A Hole in the Roof - Cinema Odeon - La Gran Guardia

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La Gran Guardia

If the “Odeon” was larger with its 2300 seats, “La Gran Guardia” was the more noble of our movie theaters. It was built during the reconstruction of the area of “Via Grande”, almost destroyed during the air raids of the last war.“La Gran Guardia” was inaugurated in 1954 and, with its 1300 seats and a great acoustic, was the venue of choice not only for movies, but for theater, concerts and even operas.The curious name, which literally means Big Guard, comes from a nearby old station of the guards called in the same way.The theater closed in 2005, the same year of the “Odeon”, but at least there are no cars in its future: within months an international retail-clothing company will open a huge store on the premises.We all wish well to this theater in its new incarnation; it was so sad to see this place as it was for the last time.

See also: Cinema Odeon

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Around the Goldoni

The offices of the theater foundation City of Livorno “C. Goldoni”.The courtyard on the left side of the theater, with the loading zone, the safety stairs and the access to the stage.On the other side of a new bar called “Palcoscenico” (Stage).The flags on the front of the Goldoni are in very bad shape...

See also: Teatro Goldoni - Inside the Goldoni - Behind the Scenes

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Behind the Scenes

We are again inside the Teatro Goldoni, this time on the stage: sets of scenography are dangling from the wood grating placed at about 30 meters of height.We are now on top of the grating, just above the stage, and you can admire a giant terracotta jar: full of water it was used then as a primitive fire fighting device.People working behind the scenes were proud of their work and wrote their accomplishments on the walls. Some of these writing have been left during the renovation of the theatre.
This one says: “Newest Operetta Company, December 14, 1914”.

See also: Inside the “Goldoni” - Teatro Goldoni

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Inside the Goldoni

My friend Stefano has a key for every door and a couple of days ago let me inside the “Teatro Goldoni”. You can see people working on the stage for the next show.There are four order of boxes with the “Palco Reale” in the middle. The central part of the fourth row is called “galleria” and the whole top row, the one with the balustrade, is the “loggione”.The “Palco Reale” hasn't hosted royals lately, but our President, the Livornese Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, was there in 2004 for a “Cavalleria rusticana” by the Livornese Pietro Mascagni.

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Teatro Goldoni

The Goldoni Theater or “Goldoni”, as it called informally here, was built on a project of the architect Giuseppe Cappellini (Livorno, 1812 - Firenze, 1876). It was inaugurated as “Imperiale e Regio Teatro Leopoldo” in honor of Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, on 24 July 1847 with the opera “Robert le diable” by Giacomo Meyerbeer.
In 1860, with the unification of Italy, it was renamed “Regio Teatro Goldoni” after the celebrated Venetian playwright and librettist Carlo Goldoni. A Venetian honored in Tuscany needs an explanation: during his many wanderings and adventures in Italy, Goldoni was living in Livorno when, happily for us all, determined to pursue the playwriting as a profession. Years after, he set his “Trilogia della villeggiatura” (Holiday Trilogy) in Livorno, describing a family who crave and then spend a vacation to Montenero, only to return home completely exhausted.
In more recent times the theater fall into disrepair from the ravages of time and the neglect of the owners, so the municipality exercised its right of eminent domain in 1990, after the building was condemned few years before. The theater, after a long restoration, was inagurated (for a second time) on 24 January 2004 with “Cavalleria rusticana” by the Livorno-born Pietro Mascagni at the presence of the President of the Italian Republic, the Livorno-born Carlo Azeglio Ciampi.

(architectural model from http://www.goldoniteatro.it/)

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