Teatro San Moisè

The Teatro San Moisè was a theatre and opera house in Venice, active from 1620 to 1818.

It was in a prominent location near the Palazzo Giustinian and the church of San Moisè at the entrance to the Grand Canal.

Built by the San Bernaba branch of the Giustiniani family c. 1620, it was originally a prose theatre.

In the 1770s and 1780s the theatre was under the control of the prolific librettist Giovanni Bertati, the Poeta Cesareo ("Imperial Poet") of the Italian Opera in Vienna, who concentrated on drammi giocosi with Pasquale Anfossi and other composers.

In July 1896, the Minerva saw Venice's first cinema projection when the Lumière brothers brought their equipment to the theatre.