Teatro Gobetti
The Teatro Gobetti is a theatre at via Gioachino Rossini 8, in Turin, built between 1840 and 1842 as the seat of the Accademia Filodrammatica to a design by the architect Giuseppe Leoni; today it is the institutional seat of the Fondazione Teatro Stabile di Torino.[1][2][3]
The Accademia Filodrammatica
It was inaugurated on 21 January 1842 in the presence of Vittorio Emanuele II, with a tragedy by Carlo Marenco and a comedy by Scribe.[2] In November 1847 it hosted the world premiere of the Canto degli Italiani, with music by Michele Novaro; this is commemorated by a 1930 plaque with a bronze medallion of Goffredo Mameli by Edoardo Rubino.[2][4] The Accademia disbanded in 1860 and the theatre remained unused until 1881.[2][3]
From the Liceo Musicale to the Piccolo Teatro
In 1881 the City of Turin purchased it for the Liceo Musicale, and from 1928 it was a «Casa del soldato» (soldiers' club). [2] After the war it was named after Piero Gobetti, and in 1955 it became the seat of the Piccolo Teatro della Città, from which the Teatro Stabile was born.[2][1] MuseoTorino describes it as the only significant example in Turin of an early-nineteenth-century theatre.[1]
The restorations
It was restored in 1956 and in 1984, reopening in 2001 with Pirandello's «La ragione degli altri»; in 2015 the colonnaded hall was named after Pier Paolo Pasolini.[2]