Place building Funchal
Teatro Esperança
Funchal
Rua dos Aranhas, Funchal, Madeira
Exact site unknown; shown at the municipality
The Teatro Esperança was a small theatre in Funchal, set up by an amateur society of eighteen young men in a warehouse on Rua dos Aranhas and opened in 1859. It was Funchal's only playhouse until 1888 and was renamed after the Conde de Canavial in 1887. It was demolished after 1915.
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- Theatre — Theatre inaugurated by 1859.
- Teatro de Bom Gosto — Older Funchal theatre, smaller than the Teatro de Bom Gosto.