Impianti Tecnologici dal 1960

Project Description

The Eliseo, the youngest of the great theatres in Rome, was founded in the spring of the year 1900 with a stage and a small sheltering roof only. It was an open-air theatre called Arena Nazionale.

On September 24th 1910, an extremely elegant crowd inaugurated the new Teatro Apollo, which was – at last – a theatre with solid brick walls. Its artistic programme reflected the fashionable trends of the time: operettas and variety shows alternating with operas. Two years later, the Ridotto was separated and run autonomously as a nightclub: a real Café Chantant named Sala Apollo. The rest of the Theatre, now operating separately, became the Teatro Cines, hosting movie shows and sometimes operettas.

The new and definitive theatre sign came in May 1918: Teatro Eliseo, this was the name chosen by Prosperi, the winner of the competition promoted to change the theatre’s name. On that occasion the theatre‘s management was renovated and it was handed over to Mentore Clerici, the Cines’ manager. In 1935, the Grande Compagnia Spettacoli Eliseo played here: Anna Magnani was this company’s star.
The Eliseo that we know today was inaugurated on January 5th 1938 after six months of radical renovation work. The director of the new Eliseo was Vincenzo Torraca, who kept the theatre going for almost forty years. From the date of the adoption of the new sign to the beginning of the 1940s, the stage of the Eliseo saw the best of the Italian theatre of that time. Ettore Petrolini, Totò, Macario, Anna Magnani, with their variety shows, together with the most celebrated of the dramatic actors from Emma Gramatica to Maria Melato, from Angelo Musco to Paola Borboni. The Compagnia del Teatro Eliseo comprised Andreina Pagnani, Gino Cervi, Rina Morelli, Paolo Stoppa, Carlo Ninchi and Aroldo Tieri. In addition, the Compagnia di Memo Benassi and that of Ermete Zacconi, the Tofano-Maltagliati Company with its sentimental comedies and Antonio Gandusio with his comic repertory often performed here. Renzo Ricci and Eva Magni alternated Shakespeare with modern authors.
The De Filippo brothers performed for almost all the theatre seasons for more than three months with Eduardo’s great successes like ‘Christmas at the Cupiello’s’, which was represented at the Eliseo in 1936 with Titina, Eduardo and Peppino. Even after the break-up of the “I De Filippo” Company, Eduardo did choose the Eliseo as his only theatre in Rome.

On January 30th 1945, when Italy was still divided by the Gothic Line and Rome was controlled by the Americans,  the Eliseo staged Jean Cocteau’s ‘The Terrible Parents’, directed by a newcomer who would change the Italian theatre: Luchino Visconti. Soon after the “Compagnia italiana di prosa” was founded and directed by Luchino Visconti, the permanent players were Rina Morelli, Paolo Stoppa, Giorgio De Lullo and Tatiana Pavlova. The company then took on Ruggero Ruggeri, Arnoldo Foà, Franco Zeffirelli, Marcello Mastroianni, Vittorio Gassman and many more. The company staged memorable shows like ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’, ‘Death of a Salesman’, ‘Three Sisters’and ‘Arialda’ by Giovanni Testori. This last play will entail the breakup of the company after magistrates ordered it to be seized for obscenity - this was on February 23rd 196.
In the 1950s and 1960s the Eliseo became the home of such artists as Anna Proclemer and Giorgio Albertazzi, of companies like Franco Enriquez ‘s  ‘Quattro’, the ‘Piccolo di Milano’ directed by Strehler , ‘Giovani’ that staged the first innovative plays by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi ‘ One Night at Dinner’, ‘One Can Die for Love’ and ‘Dark Soul’.

A new age begins in October 1977: Vincenzo Torraca hands over to Giuseppe Battista, who will manage the theatre for twenty years. Valli - De Lullo, who were together with Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, inaugurated the new management with ‘Henry IV’ the artistic directors of the two theatres, the Eliseo and the Piccolo Eliseo, as the Ridotto completely refurbished was named henceforth.
In the 1980s and the 1990s, Rossella Falk and Umberto Orsini became its artistic directors, together with Gabriele Lavia for a few years. The greatest Italian actors were once again on stage here: from Turi Ferro to Aroldo Tieri and Giuliana Loiodice, from Lilla Brignone to Lea Massari, from Alberto Lionello to Ugo Tognazzi. Monica Vitti in ‘The Odd Couple’ together with Rossella Falk and directed by Franca Valeri, Mariangela Melato in’ Medea’ directed by Giancarlo Sepe, Nino Manfredi in his premiere “Gente di facili costume”, they all chose the Eliseo for their return to stage. Their shows are events with spectators queuing at the ticket office from six o’clock in the morning. In July 1997, the management of the theatre was taken over by Vincenzo Monaci and its artistic direction was given to Maurizio Scaparro, who remained in charge until June 2001. In April 2002, Giuseppe Patroni Griffi became the theatre’s artistic director but his directorship was prematurely stopped by his sudden death. In April 2005, Antonio Calbi took over his work. In 2007, Massimo Monaci became director. Since the year 2000 the Piccolo Eliseo opens up to the new plays by Italian and foreign authors, to new actors and directors. The Teatro Eliseo, on the other hand, continues to be the stage for large productions and famous actors of the Italian theatre: Giorgio Albertazzi, Silvio Orlando, Anna Marchesini, Giuliana De Sio, Franca Valeri, Leo Gullotta, Remo Girone, Alessandro Gassman and many others.

After closing its activities in November 2014, the Teatro Eliseo and the Piccolo Eliseo began a new journey on the 29th of September 2015, after several months of restructuring with the management and artistic direction of Luca Barbareschi.

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