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Sep 19, 1560
1560-1570
Formation of the first Commedia dell’Arte companies Scaliger’s and Castelvetro’s commentaries on Aristotle’s Poetics -
Oct 28, 1562
1562
Trissino’s Sophonisba produced in Vicenza by the Olympic Academy -
Aug 31, 1582
1583
Palladio starts to build the Teatro Olimpico at Vicenza -
1585
The Teatro Olimpico at Vicenza opens with a production of Giustiniani’s Oedipo Tiranno -
1597
Ottari Rinuccini's opera seria, Daphne, with music by Jacopo Peri, produced in Florence -
1618
Aleotti completes the Teatro Farnese in Parma -
1637
The first opera house opens in Venice
