Nobile Teatro di San Giacomo di Corfù (Italian Wikipedia)

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  • Kostas Kardamis, Birth of Greek Opera (PDF), su donizettisociety.com, "San Giacomo and Greek ottocento" XI Convegno Annuale di Società Italiana di Musicologia Lecce, 22–24 ottobre 2004. URL consultato il 4 dicembre 2017 (archiviato dall'url originale il 16 ottobre 2015). Quotes: «Originally it functioned as the loggia of the island’s Venetian nobility, but in 1720 it was converted into a theatre, which, despite being one more theatre in the provinces of Serenissima, became the first modern theatre on Greek soil». - «These activities are of particular importance for the music history of modern Greece, since in an era when there was not such a thing as Greek State in Greek Mainland (let alone organized musical activities)». - «San Giacomo gradually acted as a pole that could hold in Corfu adequate and often well-qualified players and teachers from Italy. This resulted to the increasing interest towards music, a fact that had both cultural and social roots, and to the gradual emergence of a series of indigenous players, becoming this way the first professional musicians of modern Greece». - «Our knowledge for the activities of San Giacomo was until recently very limited, mainly due to the loss of its valuable archive during a German bombing in 1943». - «Spiridon Xindas is widely known as the composer of the opera O ypopsifios (1867), the first opera on Greek libretto». - «In 1867 the opera O Ypopsifios [The Parliamentary Candidate] was performed in San Giacomo by local amateurs. This was the first opera to use a full-scale libretto in Greek and which shows the creative assimilation of Italian and Greek musical perspectives in the Ionians».
  • (EL) San Simera - Biography of Spyridon Xyndas, su sansimera.gr (archiviato dall'url originale l'11 gennaio 2008).
    «Translated quote: "His most famous opera is the "Parliamentary Candidate" which premiered in 1867 at the San Giacomo theatre of Corfu.»
  • Ionian Islands Culture, su e-ionia.gr, 21 luglio 2011 (archiviato dall'url originale il 21 luglio 2011).
    «In 1867 in San Giacomo theatre in Corfu premiers the first opera of Xyndas with a social critique topic entitled “Parliament Candidate” which was the first melodrama ever written by a Greek composer on a totally Greek libretto (of Ioannis Rinopoulos).»
  • Corfu - History of the Municipal Theatre, su corfu.gr (archiviato dall'url originale il 6 aprile 2008). Ospitato su Internet Archive.