List of works premiered at the Teatro Capranica

This is a chronological list of works known to have premiered at the Teatro Capranica in Rome.

While the vast majority are operas, the list also includes oratorios, cantatas, and plays.

The theatre was closed from 1699 to 1711 when there was a papal ban on public secular performances in Rome.

There were other shorter periods of closure in the 18th and 19th centuries, and it definitively ceased operating as a full-scale theatre and opera house in 1881.

In a much altered state, it now serves as a conference and event venue.

Facade of the Palazzo Capranica, the 16th-century palace in which the theatre was housed
Portrait of Bernardo Pasquini by Andrea Pozzo . Pasquini's opera Dov'è amore è pietà inaugurated the Teatro Capranica in 1679.
Portrait of the celebrated castrato singer Farinelli by Bartolomeo Nazari . Farinelli sang many times at the Capranica, including the 1728 premiere of L'isola di Alcina composed by his brother Riccardo Broschi . [ 7 ]
Caricature of Gaetano Latilla by Pier Leone Ghezzi . Latilla's Tito Manlio was one of the last in the opera seria genre to be premiered at the Capranica. He was the uncle of Niccolò Piccinni , several of whose comic operas premiered at the Capranica in the late 1760s.
Portrait of Carlo Goldoni by Alessandro Longhi . Goldoni wrote his 1760 play Pamela Maritata expressly for the Capranica
Portrait of Valentino Fioravanti by Achille Talarico . Fioravanti's comic operas, three of which premiered at the Capranica, were typical of the theatre's operatic repertoire in the late 18th century.