TheTeatro Mercadante, earlier known asTeatro del Fondo, is a theatre inNaples,Italy. It is located onPiazza del Municipio #1, with the front facing the west side ofCastel Nuovo and near the Maritime Station. Together with theTeatro San Carlo, it was originally one of the two royal opera houses of the 18th and 19th-century city.

It opened in 1779 as the 'Teatro del Real Fondo di Separazione', with comic operas sung mainly in Tuscan. The Mozart operasDon Giovanni,The Marriage of Figaro andCosì fan tutte were performed there (1812-1815) and also a number of French operas under the patronage and influence ofJoseph Bonaparte, King of Naples (1806-1808). The theatre was later used byGioachino Rossini, who became the music director of the royal theatres,Giovanni Pacini andGaetano Donizetti and many other leading composers.

After a period of relative inactivity, in 1871 it was renamed the Real Teatro Mercadante, afterSaverio Mercadante, whereupon opera productions once again flourished at the theatre.

It is now part of the Teatro Stabile Napoli.

• Robinson, Michael F and Di Benedetto, Renato (1992), 'Naples' inTheNew Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London)ISBN 0-333-73432-7
• Warrack, John and West, Ewan (1992),The Oxford Dictionary of Opera, 782 pages,ISBN 0-19-869164-5

• Teatro Stabile Napoli history of the theatre

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