Corfiot music professionals who, in turn, became the first professional musicians of modern Greece. Corfiot Spyridon Xyndas, for example, wrote the Greek opera O ypopsifios (The Parliamentary Candidate) which became the first opera composed on an exclusively Greek libretto and was performed at San Giacomo in 1867. The oral tradition held that operatic performers who found success at the theatre were distinguished with the accolade applaudito in Corfú ("applauded in Corfu") as a tribute to the discriminating musical taste of the island audience. The theatre was replaced by the Municipal Theatre of Corfu in 1902. References Theatres in Greece Opera houses in Greece History of Corfu (city) Baroque architecture in Greece Theatres completed in 1720 Music venues completed in 1720 1720 establishments in the Republic of Venice 18th-century establishments in Greece Venetian rule in the Ionian Islands Architecture of Corfu Theatres in Corfu