Teatro Verde

Teatro Verde was designed in 1952 by Luigi Vietti and Angelo Scattolin and built with materials left over from the Island's restoration.
Reached by tree-lined paths that link the theatre from the core of the park to the rest of the Island, its lower and upper circles seat 1484 spectators on stepped rows of white Vicenza stone divided by box-hedges, according to ancient Roman and Greek theatres and Veneto teatri di verzura.
The theatre was opened in July 1954 with Resurrection and Life, a religious drama set to Venetian Renaissance music. Its first season continued with Benedetto Marcello's Arianna, two symphonic concerts directed by Dimitri Mitropoulos, Goldoni's Baruffe Chiozzotte.
The following years saw performances by the Theatre of Athens (Euripides' Hecuba and Sofocle's Oedipus Rex), the Théàtre populaire de France (Molière's Don Juan and Claudel's La Ville, Annie Ducaux's Company (Racine's Bérénice), the Oxford Playhouse (Shakespeare's Midsummer's Night's Dream) and Italian companies (La Ruzzante's La Moscheta, Goldoni's Campiello and I chiassetti del Carneval.
From 1999 to 2003 an agreement had been signed by the Cini Foundation and the Venice Biennale to be reopened, principally for staging dance productions