Between 1641 and 1645 this theater was certainly the stage that hosted the melodramas with the most sumptuous productions in all of Venice.
The scenographer from the Marche region Giacomo Torelli made a real revolution in the theatrical structure of the seventeenth century: he invented the "big wheel", an instrument positioned under the stage, capable of changing the wings quickly and in synchronization.
Giacomo Sommariva, glover by profession, on 1 July 1640, obtained a shed from the convent of SS. Giovanni e Paolo for a theatrical season. Sommariva was just a co
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