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The Teatro Regio in Turin is the main opera house in the city of Turin and one of the largest and most important theatres in Italy and among the most important in the European and international scene. Opened in 1740, in sumptuous and magnificent rococo forms after various transformations and updates both stylistic and technical, operated during the nineteenth and early twentieth century, it was totally destroyed by a fire in February 1936; rebuilt in modern forms in the post-war period, it was again inaugurated in 1973.

The original building remains only the eighteenth-century historical facade, porticoed and harmonizing with the vast Piazza Castello, currently part of the UNESCO serial site Residenze Sabaude enrolled in the List of World Heritage since 1997. From 2022 the Superintendent is Mathieu Jouvin.

History

1740-1792
"This Theatre is judged by all the greatest and most important task of Europe, and is worthy of the object of the wonder of the Forestieri, for its vastness and amplitude, and for the architecture, and comfort of the edict, and for the entire beauty of the ornaments, mostly gilded. The painting of the Face is remarkable. Each Carnival plays music with such a magnificence of apparatus, which is best suited to the greatness of the Real Court, which takes you on the spacious loggia destined to you, which then lights up. They call you the best Musicians in Europe. "

In 1753, Giovanni Gaspare Craveri was acting in his "Guida de' Forestieri per la Real Città di Torino". The origins of the current Teatro Regio date back to the 1920s when Vittorio Amedeo II, recently acquired the title of King of Sardinia, decided to commission to the architect Filippo Juvarra the design of a new large Theatre in replacement of the ancient Theatre of Corte, then located in the old Doge's Palace called of San Giovanni, within a more general functional and urban reorganization of that part of the so-called "Eastern Town Hall of Castle".
The intention was perfected and realized only a few years later, in 1738, by the successor Carlo Emanuele III (incoronate king in 1730) who, following the death of Juvarra, chose to entrust the work to the new Primo Architetto Regio Benedetto Alfieri with the request to design a grandiose and avant-garde theatre, symbolically functional to the promotion of that renewed prestige that the Monarchia Sabauda had to acquire in the international panorama. It was inaugurated on 26 December 1740 with the Opera Arsace by Francesco Feo directed by the Master Director of the Royal Chapel Giovanni Battista Somis with leading interpreters Giovanni Carestini and Angelo Amorevoli.

The new 18th-century «Regio Teatro», built by the foundations in the record time of only two years at the same time with the grandiose Secretaries of State, always of proge