Real Theater of Saint Charles

Real Theater of Saint Charles, best known as the Teatro San Carlo, the opera house of Naples, one of the largest in the world. It is the oldest European opera houses, including those that exist today, and one of the greatest Italian opera houses.
Recognized by UNESCO as world heritage site, can accommodate three thousand spectators and has five tiers of boxes arranged in a horseshoe, plus a large royal box, a gallery and a stage about thirty feet long.


Opened in 1737 by the will of Charles I of Bourbon designed by Giovanni Antonio Medrano, with the work of Domenico Sarro Achilles on Skyros and libretto by Pietro Metastasio. In 1767 Ferdinando Fuga performs the work on renewing the occasion of the marriage of Ferdinand IV with Maria Carolina and in 1778 redesigned the proscenium. In 1770 he was a guest of the theater (only as a spectator) the young Mozart. In 1799, during the Neapolitan Republic, assumed the name of the National Theater of San Carlo, to return to the previous name after the fall of the republic.
Joachim Murat in 1809 commissioned the architect Antonio Niccolini Tuscan for the design of the new façade that performed
in neoclassical style, drawing inspiration from the Easter Poccianti for the Villa di Poggio Imperiale in Florence. In 1860 with the unification of Italy began a long period of decline and abandonment of the theater.


January 23, 2009 Theater Saint Charles has been returned to the city, by the firm who oversaw the first phase
of renovation and restoration, which lasted five months (from July 2008 to December of that year) and coordinated by Elizabeth Fabbri