Neapolitan Dream

The Teatro di San Carlo is the opera house in Naples, designed for the Bourbon monarch Carlo III of Naples. Carlos wanted to endow Naples with a new and larger theatre to replace the old and dilapidated Teatro San Bartolomeo and was inaugurated on the 4 November 1737—the king’s name day— At the time, it was the largest opera house in the world, seating 3,300.

The new theatre was much admired for its architecture, its gold decorations, and the sumptuous blue upholstery (blue and gold being the official colours of the Bourbons).

At the time, Neapolitan opera enjoyed great success all over Europe, not only in the field of opera buffa (musical Commedy) but also in that of opera seria (serious opera). Naples became the capital of European music and even foreign composers considered the San Carlo theatre as the goal of their career!

And with Pompey and Vesuvius on your doorstep and Capri and Ischia a short boat ride away (not forgetting the Amalfi coast just a short ride away) you’re in the centre of one of the most magical spots on the mediteranean – see Naples and die, see the opera in Naples and come alive!

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