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Baroque and Opera Tickets

Scuola Grande di San Teodoro, Venice, Italy
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Available Dates: 5 Nov 2024 - 4 Jan 2025 (14 events)
Important Info
Type: Classical Concert
City: Venice, Italy
Acts: 2

E-tickets: Print at home or at the box office of the event if so specified. You will find more information in your booking confirmation email.

You can only select the category, and not the exact seats.
If you order 2 or 3 tickets: your seats will be next to each other.
If you order 4 or more tickets: your seats will be next to each other, or, if this is not possible, we will provide a combination of groups of seats (at least in pairs, for example 2+2 or 2+3).

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Performers
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Creators
Composer: Domenico Cimarosa
Composer: Giacomo Puccini
Composer: Giacomo Puccini
Composer: Giacomo Puccini
Composer: Giacomo Puccini
Composer: Gioachino Rossini
Composer: Gioachino Rossini
Composer: Gioachino Rossini
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Composer: Jacques Offenbach
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Overview

Join the orchestra and the singers of the ensemble I Musici Veneziani in an extraordinary concert where they interpret the most beautiful arias of the Baroque tradition and the great operas of Verdi and Puccini.

Live concert of Baroque music
Many people enjoy classical music but don't know exactly why Baroque music is so special to the genre. The musical era of the Baroque came following the Renaissance and lasted from about 1600 to 1750. Many of the greatest classical music composers who ever lived made their mark during this period, which is why you will likely recognize many Baroque music compositions. Hearing Baroque in Venice is a unique and beautiful way to make your holiday something you'll never forget.

Hearing Baroque music performed live, you'll understand why it's so essential to attend a classical music concert live as opposed to just listening to a recording. The virtuosity of the performers in the I Musici Veneziani orchestra is showcased on stage, as you watch them bring the sounds famed composers such as Verdi and Puccini to life. The opera singers express the full range of their vocal talents and transmit all the emotions inherent in the words they sing.

It has often been said that music has the power to transport and to transform, and this is more than evident when you experience Baroque in Venice. The birthplace of so many wonderful compositions is the best place to hear a live concert of Baroque music, which will transport you back to that luxurious and elegant era in Venice's long and rich history. When you hear Baroque music in Venice with I Musici Veneziani, you'll understand how this music has remained just as amazing today as it was when it was first released centuries ago.

Baroque music from Verdi to Puccini comes alive again in Venice
The operas of Giuseppe Verdi and Giacomo Puccini are among some of the most famous and beloved compositions of the Italian opera genre. Signature arias from the works of these two composers have made their mark throughout the centuries and are instantly recognizable. Hearing Baroque music in Venice performed live at the Scuola Grande di San Teodoro is the best way to discover why composers like Verdi and Puccini have withstood the test of time and remain exceptional even today, after hundreds of years.

Both Verdi and Puccini lived at the turn of the 20th century. Verdi was born in 1813 and died in 1901, and Puccini was born in 1858 and died in 1924. Their compositions mark a particular time in Italian history, with strong roots in romantic Italian opera that developed into unique individual signatures. Verdi's La Traviata and Rigoletto, and Puccini's Tosca and La Boheme evoke emotions that span the centuries and express what make us all human.

Hearing Baroque music in Venice is one way you can take yourself back in time to a place when La Serenissima, the Venetian Republic, was an important and wealthy force in Europe. All the power, desire, and importance of this seafaring people is wrapped up in the music that filled its palaces and concert halls. A concert by I Musici Veneziani, in period costume to evoke the Baroque era, is a wonderful way to experience this music.

Venue Info

Scuola Grande di San Teodoro - Venice
Location   San Marco, 4810

It is the seat of the oldest Venetian confraternity built around the 8th century as a sign of devotion to the first patron saint of the city of Venice. Two minutes from the Rialto Bridge, in its spaces, it hosts congresses, conferences, exhibitions and in the evening the concerts of the I Musici Veneziani orchestra.

The Scuola Grande di San Teodoro is part of a very old tradition. In the eighth century, in a small church, where the Basilica of San Marco is located today, a brotherhood was founded and dedicated to the saint who became the city patron. In 828, the Serenissima Republic, following the policy of detachment from the Byzantine sphere of influence, to St. Theodor, replaced St. Theodor with St. Mark, whose body was brought to Venice from Alexandria, Egypt, that year. As a result, our brotherhood was dissolved. The reconstruction of the association at the Augustinian fathers of San Salvador dates to the 1st March 1258. The fathers, in fact, granted a small room to be used as a seat for meetings, five burials in the cloister and an altar in the church consecrated to the saint. In exchange, the brothers paid three ducats a year to the convent.

The sources prove that in 1261 the remains of San Teodoro were moved to Venice from Constantinople. These relics were, with great solemnity, placed in an urn on the altar of the Scuola in the church of San Salvador. The brothers committed themselves to decorate and illuminate the chapel dedicated to their protector.
The activities of the School were gradually becoming more and more characterized by particular attention and propensity to the poor’s welfare. Due to this specificity, over the years, the number of members, some of whom were very influential, increased to such an extent that the confraternity acquired a new status in the city. Its prestige increased in 1434, when Pope Eugene IV granted seven years of indulgence to those who would pray at the altar of San Teodoro, and even more so, when, in 1448, another Pope, Nicholas V, confirmed the indulgence for those who visited the chapel on 6th August, the day of the S.S. Salvatore, and on 9th November, the day of San Teodoro. Two years later, on 12th October 1450, the Senate recognized San Teodoro as the patron saint of Venice again, together with San Marco, decreeing a day of obligation on the day of his anniversary. In 1552 the Scuola was raised to the dignity of the “Grande”.

The majority of the brothers were merchants and artisans, and the composition of the members remained unaltered throughout the long course of its history. Originally, the charitable activities of the Scuola consisted of offering soup to the poor on holidays, and the brothers themselves were responsible for preparing the food. In the early sixteenth century, in the church of San Salvador, the Augustinian Fathers were succeeded by the Canonici Regolari who decided to enlarge and modify their church. The project, attributed to Jacopo Sansovino, involved the expansion towards the “campo” and the demolition of the altar of the Scuola. At the time, the body of the saint was kept in the sacristy. That arrangement should have been temporary yet, once the work was finished, the fathers refused to return the altar and the body of the saint into the church. After a lengthy dispute, in 1574, the official redelivery of the church altar and the venerated relic eventually took place. However, it was not the current altar (to the right of the main altar), but the one on the left owned by the Gritti family.

Important Info
Type: Classical Concert
City: Venice, Italy
Acts: 2

E-tickets: Print at home or at the box office of the event if so specified. You will find more information in your booking confirmation email.

You can only select the category, and not the exact seats.
If you order 2 or 3 tickets: your seats will be next to each other.
If you order 4 or more tickets: your seats will be next to each other, or, if this is not possible, we will provide a combination of groups of seats (at least in pairs, for example 2+2 or 2+3).

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