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Letter from Venice.
The Gran Teatro La Fenice, a place of beauty and enchantment squeezed between calli (alleyways) and canals, burned down quickly on the dry, windy evening of January 29, 1996. Onlookers gazed in horror as the painted ceiling caved in over the auditorium where audiences had greeted the first-ever performances of Rossini's Tancredi and Semiramide, Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi and Beatrice di Tenda, Verdi's Ernani, Attila, Rigoletto, La Traviata and Simon Boccanegra, and Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress. The following evening the city council decided to have the opera house rebuilt "as it was and where it was."
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- Magazine article from: Newsweek International Thomas, Dana December 1, 2003 700+ words
...18th- century opera house burned to the ground...smoldering embers that La Fenice, like its namesake...Philharmonic. As La Fenice's director...re not a real opera house until you've...opera." Finishing La Fenice is merely the first...
- FAMED LA FENICE THEATER DESTROYED BY FIRE A 3RD TIME.(News)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) January 30, 1996 700+ words
A fire yesterday evening destroyed Venice's La Fenice opera house, a 204-year-old treasure that was one of Italy...inside. Booms resounded as the structure collapsed. La Fenice means ``the phoenix,'' and like the mythical...
- Unesco launches La Fenice appeal
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London February 3, 1996 700+ words
Paris - Unesco launched a worldwide appeal for funds to help rebuild Venice's La Fenice opera house, burnt out for the second time in its history this week. The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation asked for...
- Neil Crory on the rebuilt La Fenice.(Letter from Venice)
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada September 1, 2005 700+ words
...s first public opera house. Since it first...in April 1792, La Fenice (The Phoenix...two centuries, La Fenice has twice been...that the beloved opera house would be rebuilt...and for years, La Fenice remained nothing...
- Renace La Fenice de las cenizas.(Internacional)
- Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México) December 14, 2003 700+ words
...Byline: Esteban Israel Italia ROMA.- La Fenice, el mitico teatro de Venecia donde Giuseppe...completo. La obsesiva reconstruccion de La Fenice -Fenix en Italiano-, una de las salas...al mundo", dijo Muti, que debuto en La Fenice hace 33 anos. El teatro ardio la noche...
- Theatres -- Italy -- Venice -- Teatro La Fenice
- Picture from: NYPL Digital Gallery unknown January 1, 1934 700+ words
- The Death of Venice?; Burning of Opera House Epitomizes Decline
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Daniel Williams February 3, 1996 700+ words
...fire that destroyed La Fenice opera house, a gilded gem that...whose nation predates La Fenice by only a few years...fabric of a city an opera house can be. The theater...could still be grand: La Fenice was designed to be...
- Fire Destroys Venice Opera House and Opera Archives
- Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition January 30, 1996 700+ words
...00-0000 A fire destroyed La Fenice, the Venice Opera House, last night, as well as...opera history. The story of La Fenice is chronicled and details...EDWARDS, Host: The Venice Opera House, La Fenice, one of Europe' s oldest...
