TheTeatro Municipale (also since the 1980s called theTeatro Municipale Valli due to being named after the actorRomolo Valli) is a theatre inReggio Emilia, NorthernItaly. Following the destruction by fire of the 1741 Teatro Cittadella in April 1851, the new theatre was designed by the architectCesare Costa and constructed in theneoclassical style between 1852 and 1857.[1] Its inauguration took place on 21 April 1857 with the performance of theVittor Pisani by local composerAchille Peri.
It is the pre-eminent public theatre of the city and is located in its historical centre next to the public park and near the smaller and more recent theatreTeatro Ariosto. It sponsors concerts, operas and ballet performance, while the adjacent, smaller, and more recently built Teatro Ariosto serves a more intimate stage for dramatic performances. The theatre has a rectangular base that measures 80 x 43.60 meters and covers an area of 3,763 square meters. The audience capacity is 1150 people. It has 56 dressing rooms for the artists and 16 anterooms. The concert hall iselliptical and has 106boxes placed on four tiers plus a regal box and a gallery. The frescoes on the ceiling are of the local artistDomenico Pellizzi. The curtain was painted byAlfonso Chierici.
The outside is composed by 12Tuscan columns made of granite on the ground floor while on the first floor it has 13 windows spaced byIonic columns. On top of the building there are statues made by sculptorsPrudenzio Piccioli,Ilario Bedotti,Giovanni Chierici,Antonio Ilarioli,Attilio Rabaglia.
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