Teatro San Carlo — The World's Oldest Opera House
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Teatro San Carlo — The World's Oldest Opera House

The Teatro di San Carlo (the 'San Carlo' — the opera house in Naples built 1737 by the Bourbon King Charles III of Naples (subsequently Charles III of Spain), the oldest continuously operating public opera house in Europe and the oldest opera house in the world (predating La Scala in Milan by 41 years and the Venice Fenice by 56 years): the opera house with the extraordinary baroque and neoclassical interior, the 'horseshoe' auditorium with 6 tiers of boxes seating 1,379 spectators, and the history of premieres (including Donizetti's 'Lucia di Lammermoor' (1835)).

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