The Teatro Concordia is a film and small-stage community theater in the town of
Marsciano
Marsciano is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Perugia in the Italian region Umbria, located about 25 km south of Perugia.
Marsciano borders the following municipalities: Collazzone, Deruta, Fratta Todina, Perugia, Piegaro, S ...
in the province of Perugia, region of
Umbria
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, Italy.
The seating and stage area of the theater hall itself is no longer the original 19th-century construction. Of the original structure, erected in 1873 by a private company "Della Concordia”, only the eclectic brick facade remains, designed by the engineer
Nazarene Biscarini
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* A person from Nazareth
Religion
* Nazarene (sect), a term used for an early Christian sect in first-century Judaism, Nasoraean Mandaeans, and later a sect of Jewish Christians
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with both
Neo-Romanesque
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and
Gothic Revival architectural elements. The theater itself mostly burned down in a fire during the 1950s, but the brick facade survived. In 1986–1990, the Comune of Marsciano rebuilt a modern theater with 323 seats. It displays both movies and has a small stage for small performances. The ''sipario'' was painted by
Omar Galliani
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References
Theatres in Umbria
Buildings and structures in Umbria
Theatres completed in 1873
Theatres completed in 1990
Gothic Revival architecture in Italy
Romanesque Revival architecture in Italy
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