The people's theater

                                                                                                                                                                                                   




History of theater

Trianon is the name of the village purchased and then destroyed by Louis XIV of France to annex it to the park of Versailles. In this lush place, in 1670, instructs the Sun King Louis Le Vau to build a 'house to make tea, "where can I flee with his family, away from the label and the toil of power.












It is only the beginning of the development area as a royal retreat. In 1687, the king himself is building up the "little palace of marble and porphyry with delightful gardens', hereinafter referred to as the Grand Trianon, almost a century later, from 1763 to 1768, it was the turn of the Petit Trianon, built by Louis XV the pressures of his mistress, Madame de Pompadour, in 1776, Marie Antoinette makes you resume work: English garden, the temple of love, theater, picturesque village around a pond, the Hameau de la Reine, the Queen's Village, where the Queen plays the shepherdess. The Duke of Cro˙ summarizes: "Never have so changed form, nor have cost so much money two acres of land.















"We arrive in the last century and 8 November 1911, the theater of Neapolitan Vincenzo Piazza Calenda, in the neighborhood of Forcella, resumes, then, so certainly imaginative, a name still a symbol of luxury gifts and treats. So Hector De Mura remember the opening in his Encyclopedia of the Neapolitan song:"It was the company of Eduardo Scarpetta, in which were his son Vincenzo De Crescenzo Bianchina, Della Rossa and Perrella, to inaugurate the theater. [...]

Many actors, singers and not a few, were forged on his stage, achieving lasting fame. And many actors and singers ended their wonderful career here, like the aforementioned Armando Gill Donnarumma and Elvira. " In 1940, Cuccurullo Gustavo buys Theatre in 1947 and transformed it into a cinema. Fifty years later, a descendant of the same name as above, shows the condition of the old theater hall, inaugurated the December 7, 2002. Since April 2006, a public theater of the Campania Region and the Province of Naples, directed by Nino D'Angelo. Dedicated to the great playwright and actor Raffaele Viviani, the structure has assumed the name of the people Trianon Viviani theater.