page_title: Alessandro Sanquirico
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: Alessandro Sanquirico / Works
caption_attribution_description: English: Alessando Sanquirico-1822-by Roberto Focosi-detail
context_page_description: Alessandro Sanquirico was an Italian scenic designer, architect, and painter. He began his career in conjunction with leading artists of the time such as Paolo Landriani, Giovanni Pedroni, Giovanni Perego, and Georgio Fuentes. Additionally, he studied architecture and perspective with Giuseppe Piermarini, the architect of the La Scala opera house.
  Altogether, he designed over 300 productions for that house, including many premières. Specifically, they included four operas by Vincenzo Bellini.
context_section_description: For fifteen years, from 1818 to 1832, Sanquirico dominated the visual style of La Scala, not only on stage, but also in the auditorium. He designed the ballets of Salvatore Viganò at the beginning of the 19th century, and the world premières of Rossini’s La gazza ladra, Bellini’s Il pirata, La straniera, La sonnambula as well as Norma in 1831. His set designs were prepared for Donizetti’s works at La Scala, and these included Anna Bolena when it appeared there,  Ugo, conte di Parigi and L'elisir d'amore, both in 1832, and the premiere of Lucrezia Borgia in 1833.
  He provided the decorations for the celebration of the crowning of Ferdinand I of Austria, as king of Lombardy and the Veneto. Additionally he worked in the Teatro Alberti in Desenzano, the Teatro Sociale in Canzo, the Teatro Sociale in Como, and the Teatro Municipale in Piacenza. He worked with Andrea Appiani and Bargigli  in the design of the Arena Civica of Milan and provided the scenography for ballets by Salvatore Viganò. He helped decorate ceilings in the Cathedral of Milan.
caption: Alessando Sanquirico (Litho  Roberto Focosi, 1822)
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