RAI Production Center, Naples

Coordinates: 40°49′37.21″N 14°11′22″E / 40.8270028°N 14.18944°E / 40.8270028; 14.18944
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RAI Production Center, Naples
The production center in 1966
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General information
TypeBroadcasting Center
LocationFuorigrotta, Naples, Italy
Coordinates40°49′37.21″N 14°11′22″E / 40.8270028°N 14.18944°E / 40.8270028; 14.18944
Inaugurated7 March 1963; 61 years ago (1963-03-07)
OwnerRAI

RAI's production center in Naples (

public broadcaster RAI. The center is located in Naples in southern Italy, while the other three production centers are located in Rome, Milan and Turin. Construction began in the late 1950s, and the center was opened on 7 March 1963 by Prime Minister Amintore Fanfani
.

Venue and facilities

Exterior of the auditorium in 2015

The center is located on Via Guglielmo Marconi near to San Paolo Stadium, in the Fuorigrotta district of Naples.[1] The center has six TV studios with a total space of 1,227 square meters and room for 370 spectators. The studios are used to produce television programs, debates, drama series and soap operas which are then broadcast on the broadcaster Rai's channels.

The center's largest facility is the Auditorium Rai di Napoli, a concert hall with around 1,000 seats designed by artcitects Renato Avolio De Martino,

1965 Eurovision Song Contest.[2]
After a renovation of the auditorium in the 2000s by the Neapolitan studio Gnosis Architettura, the number of seats was reduced to 600 and the organ was renovated.

The center also houses the historical archives of the 

Canzone Napoletana, the traditional form of music performed in the local Neapolitan language. The archive contains over 50,000 classical Neapolitan songs.[3]

References

  1. ^ Ascione, Domenico (March 4, 2018). "L'Auditorium RAI di Napoli: dalla musica classica a Made in Sud". Retrieved 10 February 2022.
  2. ^ Campanelli, Alessandro Pergoli. ""Il Recupero dell'auditorium Rai di Napoli" in L'Architetto italiano, II, 16, 2006, pp. 108-111". Retrieved 10 February 2022 – via www.academia.edu.
  3. ^ "L'Archivio Storico della canzone napoletana - Nuovi suoni sulla Wr7". www.wr6.rai.it. Retrieved 10 February 2022.

Bibliography

External links

Media related to Auditorium RAI (Naples) at Wikimedia Commons

Preceded by
Tivolis Koncertsal
Copenhagen
Eurovision Song Contest
Venue

1965
Succeeded by