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decked in all their bravery. Here came the shoemaker, the tailor, and the small artisan, all with their wives or women, and with them the wealthy peasant who had ten cents to pay for entrance. Here the audience wept and laughed, applauded the actors, and talked to each other from one side of the
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which suggest that the palace may have incorporated an earlier building on the site. In the late 1670s, another member of the family, Pompeo
Capranica, had a private theatre carved out from existing family apartments without changing the exterior of the building. The theatre was inaugurated on 6
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expressly for the theatre. The theatre went through several more renovations, closures, and proprietors starting in the second half of the 18th century. By the 19th century, it had ceased being a leading opera house in the city and tended to concentrate on comic operas and plays (often in
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143:) who completely rebuilt the theatre in 1694 transforming it into the standard U-shape with rich ornamentation and 6 tiers of 26 boxes each. It re-opened as a public theatre (Rome's second) on 18 January 1695 with a performance of
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was closely associated with the
Capranica which premiered several of his early operas beginning in 1679. When he returned to Rome in 1718 after his years in Naples, he produced his three finest operas for the theatre,
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opera productions by the association "Aulico – Opera & Musica" and over the years has been the setting for numerous meetings of
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on 1 March 1881. At first it was rented out as a furniture warehouse, but then stood completely empty from 1895 until 1922 when it was converted into a cinema.
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inaugurated the newly built Teatro Capranica on 6 January 1679.
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for their stagings of his plays. In 1760, he wrote his comedy
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was marked by the presence of his brother, the celebrated
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gave a two-hour speech there in which he introduced the
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874:Il Teatro Capranica dall'inaugurazione al 1881
848:"Rinasce il teatro lirico a palazzo Capranica"
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