The 16th-century Palazzo della Regione in Feltre’s Piazza Maggiore encloses within it a jewel with almost perfect acoustics: the Teatro della Sena. Since 1684, the year of its debut as a public theater, the “Sena” knew its heyday in the early eighteenth century, ennobled by the temporary presence of a young Carlo Goldoni, who between 1729 and 1730 gave the citizenship the world premieres of 2 3-voice intermezzos: “Il buon vecchio” and “La cantatrice.”
After a long period of neglect (which, unfortunately, would not be the last), the Teatro della Sena was born to new life in 1813 thanks to the work of Venetian architect Gian Antonio Selva, already the creator of the “La Fenice” theater and the “Teatro Nuovo.” The decorations, including the original curtain restored in 2019, were entrusted to Tranquillo Orsi, who had previously taken care, with great skill, of those of the Venetian Fenice.
Thanks to the extraordinary work of these 2 artists, the Teatro della Sena is also known to fans by the flattering nickname “Little Phoenix.”