LA VOLONTÀ DI RIFORMA DEI TEATRI MILANESI DURANTE IL PERIODO NAPOLEONICO

When Napoleone arrived in Milano, the theatrical performances in the two most popular town theatres, the Scala and the Cannobbiana, were often troubled by frequent disorders: the foyers were engaged by games of chance, in the boxes people hold receptions and the audience frequently encroached the stage and the dressing rooms to dwell with singers and dancers. The new Government saw in the theatre a useful instrument to develop repubblican ideals and for this reason introduced immediately some reforms. The first amendment was the drawing up of a national theatre regulations and then was set up the commission to improve the performances. From 1803 to 1813 Earl Carlo Brentano Grianty managed the whole milanese theatrical production and maintained the good theatrical order.