With the rise of bourgeois and capitalist social forms in the 19th century, European culture moved away from its patronage system to a publicly supported system.Įarly United States opera houses served a variety of functions in towns and cities, hosting community dances, fairs, plays, and vaudeville shows as well as operas and other musical events. In the 17th and 18th centuries, opera houses were often financed by rulers, nobles, and wealthy people who used patronage of the arts to endorse their political ambition and social position. In contrast, there was no opera house in London when Henry Purcell was composing and the first opera house in Germany, the Oper am Gänsemarkt, was built in Hamburg in 1678, followed by the Oper am Brühl in Leipzig in 1693, and the Opernhaus vorm Salztor code: deu promoted to code: de in Naumburg in 1701. Italy is a country where opera has been popular through the centuries among ordinary people as well as wealthy patrons and it continues to have many working opera houses such as Teatro Massimo in Palermo (the biggest in Italy), Teatro di San Carlo code: ita promoted to code: it in Naples and Teatro alla Scala code: ita promoted to code: it in Milan. Opéra-Théâtre de Metz Métropole code: fra promoted to code: fr, built by benefactor Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle during the 18th century it is the oldest opera house working in France.
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