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The art of performing for a local audience — in Italy, in Greece and in the Balkans 3
Horseshoe theaters
Just like nowadays every Italian town has a soccer stadium, at the end of the 18
th
century every town built its own artful horseshoe theater: small & quaint for private
palaces, mid-size theaters for community performances, wealthy and imposing
buildings for melomaniacs
Teatro Concordia, Umbria , 50 seats Teatro Arrigoni, Eastern Alps, 100 seats Teatro del Giglio, Lucca-Tuscany, 500 seats Teatro Ragazzi, Sicily, 400 seats
Teatro Sociale, Lombardy, 600 seats Teatro Verdi, Salerno by Naples, 800 seats Teatro Giacosa, Western Alps, 400 seats Teatro Traetta, Puglia, 400 seats
