page_title: Teresa and Maria Milanollo
section_title: Milanollo Theatre, Savigliano (Civico Teatro Milanollo)
hierarchical_section_title: Teresa and Maria Milanollo / Milanollo Theatre, Savigliano (Civico Teatro Milanollo)
caption_attribution_description: Teatro Milanollo, Savigliano, Piemonte, Italia
context_page_description: Teresa and her younger sister Maria Milanollo, were Italian violin-playing child prodigies who toured Europe extensively to great acclaim in the 1840s. After Maria died at age 16, Teresa, who was also a composer, had a long solo career. The name "Milanollo" has been perpetuated by the regimental march of the Life Guards, Coldstream Guards and Governor General's Foot Guards, written in their honour by their contemporary J.V. Hamm. The Teatro Milanollo in their native Savigliano was named for the sisters.
  Taught violin in infancy by Ferrero, Caldera, and Morra, Teresa made her concert debut in her native Savigliano aged nine. In 1836 she moved to Paris with her family. She toured Britain, France, the Netherlands and Belgium, sometimes with her virtuoso tutors, Lafont, subsequently Habeneck and later still, de Bériot. She eventually became her sister Maria's first and only violin coach. From 1838 to 1848 the Milanollo sisters toured throughout France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and England, charming royal courts and such composers as Johann Strauss the Elder, Berlioz, Liszt, Chopin and Meyerbeer.
context_section_description: Designed by Maurizio Eula, the theatre was originally proposed in 1834 and completed in 1836. It was inaugurated with a performance of the opera The Exile from Rome, by Donizetti.
  
  Outside, on the elegant cornice forming the base of the attic is a Latin epigraph expressing the building's dedication to two of the Muses:
  A group of friends, having collected the money, (erected) in 1835 this theatre to Melpomene and Talia, with the aim of embellishing and enhancing the souls of the people.
  The Milanollo Theatre has been described as “a delicate miniature" of the Palazzo Carignano in Turin. The Neoclassically-inspired construction features a façade with statues portraying Comedy and Tragedy and a group with the Genius of Glory crowning Music and Poetry. There are floral bas-reliefs and round inserts containing portraits of the tragedian Vittorio Alfieri and the poet and opera seria librettist Metastasio.
  The auditorium, decorated with stuccoes and gold, houses 350 spectators in three circles - stalls, gallery and "gods". The painting of Mount Parnassus on the curtain is by Angelo Moja. On the ceiling, a fresco by Pietro Ayres depicts Psyche and Apollo.
  In 1899, the theatre was re-dedicated to the Milanollo sisters.
caption: Teatro Milanollo in Savigliano, Piedmont
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