The Teatro dell'Aquila is the town's

opera house An opera house is a theater building used for performances of opera. Like many theaters, it usually includes a stage, an orchestra pit, audience seating, backstage facilities for costumes and building sets, as well as offices for the institut ...

Located on Via Mazzini in

Fermo Fermo (; ancient: Firmum Picenum) is a town and ''comune'' of the Marche, Italy, in the Province of Fermo. Fermo is on a hill, the Sabulo, elevation , on a branch from Porto San Giorgio on the Adriatic coast railway. History The oldest huma ...

, region of Marche, Italy. The building was built starting in 1780 and completed in 1790, was based on designs by

Cosimo Morelli Cosimo Morelli (1732 – February 26, 1812) was an Italian architect, active throughout the Papal States in a Neoclassic style. Biography He was born at Imola. His father, also an architect, studied under Giovanni Domenico Trifogli. Cosimo is s ...

; the prior theater, located in what is now the Sala dei Ritratti in the

Palazzo dei Priori The Palazzo dei Priori or comunale is one of the best examples in Italy of a public palace from the communal era (11th century). It is located in the central Piazza IV Novembre in Perugia, Umbria. It extends along up to Via Boncambi. It still h ...

and built of wood, had burned in a fire. The first performance here was on 26 September 1790. The theater has 124 boxes over five orders tall. The ceiling frescoes were completed by Luigi Cochetti, and depict ''The Gods of Olympus, including Jove, Juno, three graces, and six Nightime hours (dancing) listen to the Song of Apollo''. The theater curtain was also painted by Cochetti, and depicts ''Armonia che consegna la cetra al genio fermano''. Other paintings now in the entrance, were painted in 1830 by

Alessandro Sanquirico Alessandro Sanquirico (27 July 1777, in Milan – 12 March 1849, in Milan) was an Italian scenic designer, architect, and painter. He began his career in conjunction with leading artists of the time such as Paolo Landriani, Giovanni Pedroni, ...

. The theater underwent restoration in 1997. The Teatro dell'Aquila now takes part in presenting performances by the Rete Lirica delle Marche.https://www.fondazioneliricamarche.it/ Fondazione Rete Lirica delle Marche

References

Theatres completed in 1790

Tourist attractions in le Marche Theatres in le Marche Fermo Music venues completed in 1790 Neoclassical architecture in le Marche 18th-century architecture in Italy {{Italy-struct-stub