{"id":12824,"date":"2025-09-01T14:59:45","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T12:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.breradesigndistrict.it\/?p=12824"},"modified":"2025-09-01T15:02:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T13:02:01","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.breradesigndistrict.it\/en\/news\/curiosita\/teatro-olympia\/","title":{"rendered":"The now disappeared Olympia Theatre","raw":"The now disappeared Olympia Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Milan’s first underground theatre<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

The Olympia Theatre in Milan, at Largo Cairoli 2, was opened in 1899 to a design by architect Giuseppe Pirovano and was the city’s first underground theatre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It took its name from the previous activity that took place in the same space, it was in fact a sports gymnasium but at the behest of the Suvini\/Zerboni Society it was converted into a place of culture.\u00a0
A 1,000-seat theatre consisting of chairs and tables, not a traditional auditorium.

After the First World War it was restructured and a traditional stalls of seats was created, which, however, due to the presence of some columns inside the space, created some difficulties for some spectators to see the stage. The columns were finally removed in the 1950s.

During its years of operation, the Olympia saw many prestigious shows and names and in 1960, in an attempt to modernise it, it was renamed: Olimpia Music Hall.

However, its fame, prestige and new identity were not enough to save the Olympia, which closed for good in 1964.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"raw":"\n\n\n

The Olympia Theatre in Milan, at Largo Cairoli 2, was opened in 1899 to a design by architect Giuseppe Pirovano and was the city's first underground theatre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It took its name from the previous activity that took place in the same space, it was in fact a sports gymnasium but at the behest of the Suvini\/Zerboni Society it was converted into a place of culture.\u00a0
A 1,000-seat theatre consisting of chairs and tables, not a traditional auditorium.

After the First World War it was restructured and a traditional stalls of seats was created, which, however, due to the presence of some columns inside the space, created some difficulties for some spectators to see the stage. The columns were finally removed in the 1950s.

During its years of operation, the Olympia saw many prestigious shows and names and in 1960, in an attempt to modernise it, it was renamed: Olimpia Music Hall.

However, its fame, prestige and new identity were not enough to save the Olympia, which closed for good in 1964.<\/p>\n"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false,"raw":""},"author":2,"featured_media":12833,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_it_post_content":"\n\n\n

Il Teatro Olympia di Milano, in Largo Cairoli 2, venne aperto nel 1899 su progetto dell'architetto Giuseppe Pirovano, fu il primo teatro sotterraneo della citt\u00e0.

Prese il nome dalla precedente attivit\u00e0 che aveva luogo nello stesso spazio, era infatti una palestra sportiva ma per volont\u00e0 della Societ\u00e0 Suvini\/Zerboni fu convertito in un luogo di cultura. 
Un teatro da 1000 posti composto da sedie e tavolini, non una tradizionale platea.

Dopo la prima Guerra Mondiale fu ristrutturato e venne creata una platea tradizionale di poltrone che per\u00f2, a causa della presenza di alcune colonne all'interno dello spazio, creava non poche difficolt\u00e0 di vista del palco per alcuni spettatori. Le colonne furno poi finalmente eliminate degli anni '50.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nei suoi anni di attivit\u00e0 l'Olympia vide moltissimi spettacoli e nomi prestigiosi e nel 1960, in un tentativo di modernizzazione venne ribattezzato: Olimpia Music Hall.

La sua fama, il suo prestigio e la sua nuova identit\u00e0 non furono per\u00f2 sufficienti a salvare l'Olimpia, che chiuse definitivamente nel 1964.<\/p>\n","_it_post_name":"teatro-olympia","_it_post_excerpt":"","_it_post_title":"L\u2019ormai scomparso Teatro Olympia","_en_post_content":"\n\n\n

The Olympia Theatre in Milan, at Largo Cairoli 2, was opened in 1899 to a design by architect Giuseppe Pirovano and was the city's first underground theatre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It took its name from the previous activity that took place in the same space, it was in fact a sports gymnasium but at the behest of the Suvini\/Zerboni Society it was converted into a place of culture.\u00a0
A 1,000-seat theatre consisting of chairs and tables, not a traditional auditorium.

After the First World War it was restructured and a traditional stalls of seats was created, which, however, due to the presence of some columns inside the space, created some difficulties for some spectators to see the stage. The columns were finally removed in the 1950s.

During its years of operation, the Olympia saw many prestigious shows and names and in 1960, in an attempt to modernise it, it was renamed: Olimpia Music Hall.

However, its fame, prestige and new identity were not enough to save the Olympia, which closed for good in 1964.<\/p>\n","_en_post_name":"","_en_post_excerpt":"","_en_post_title":"The now disappeared Olympia Theatre","edit_language":"en","footnotes":""},"categories":[827],"tags":[891,901],"class_list":["post-12824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-curiosita","tag-palazzi-storici","tag-storie-di-quartiere"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breradesigndistrict.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12824"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breradesigndistrict.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breradesigndistrict.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breradesigndistrict.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breradesigndistrict.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12824"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.breradesigndistrict.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12837,"href":"https:\/\/www.breradesigndistrict.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12824\/revisions\/12837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breradesigndistrict.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breradesigndistrict.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breradesigndistrict.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breradesigndistrict.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}