Teatro da Trindade
Francisco Pereira Palha de Faria de Lacerda planned Teatro da Trindade as a writer’s house of performance, founding a joint-stock company in 1866 to build a theatre in Lisbon’s Trindade area of Chiado. The site mattered: it carried older theatrical associations, including Alessandro Paghetti’s 18th-century Academia da Trindade, Lisbon’s first popular opera theatre. The architect Miguel Evaristo de Lima Pinto designed the building in a Portuguese Pombaline style with Italian neoclassical influence, and it was opened on 30 November 1867. The hall, the Salão do Trindade—used for Carnival—opened in February 1867, and the main theatre debuted that November with performers including Delphina, Emília Adelaide, and Emília Letroublon. Inside, the horseshoe-shaped auditorium used removable mahogany chairs, allowing the raised floor to function as a ballroom. …
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