Giovanni Battista Aleotti

…was begun in 1618 by Giovanni Battista Aleotti for Ranuccio I Farnese, and it officially opened in 1628. At one end of the large, rectangular wooden structure was a stage area designed for deep-perspective scenery and spectacular effects. The stage area, divided in half by two half walls, had provision…

The theatre, designed by Giovanni Battista Aleotti and built in 1618 (but not used until 1628, to celebrate the marriage of a Medici daughter to a Farnese son), was the first proscenium theatre to be designed for movable scenery and is the earliest large-scale indoor theatrical facility to have…

…were probably first used by Giovanni Battista Aleotti in Ferrara, Italy, in 1606. A series of flats, set in grooves on the stage floor, was set up at each wing position; at the scene change, those visible in the last scene (i.e., those in front) were simultaneously pulled out of…