Goldoni Theater Bagnacavallo

The City Council in March 1791 decided to have painted by Filippo Bibiena a huge canvas with some scenes of the marine environment. In March 1796, it approved the purchase of the Palazzo Brandolini, as the theater audience "not just made all of lumber, but still interned in the storehouses for the price of three thousand shields, as the theater audience made all of wood, occurring in the theater too easy misfortune of a fire is impossible to save them "(Council document 215-216).

In the following session of 1796 the project of the Pontifical architect Cosimo Morelli was approved. However, it should come to 29 May 1839 to resume the discussion on the new theater, acting in the custody of the project with Professor Filippo Antolini. The sitting of May 1840 accepted the proposal to build the front porch as planned. In 1844, the theater was finally completed and inaugurated in 1845 with the opera 'Ernani' by Giuseppe Verdi.

Contributed to its realization the foreman Galli from Faenza, the plasterer Tognetti, the painter Francesco Migliari of Ferrara, production designer Giuseppe Badiali. The painter Antonio Muzzi from Bologna performed the curtain still existing even in precarious conditions which celebrates the local tradition of painting and figures Ramenghi Bartolomeo receiving Senator Camillo Gozzadini from Bologna that introduces the young Girolamo da Treviso. Among the other characters stand out the countess Aldrovandi, wife of Gozzadini, and Primaticcio, former student of Ramenghi.

Brandolini demolished part of the building facing the Square, the new theater was built on a rectangular plan next to the Palazzo Comunale. "The brick facade is composed of a porch consisting of five round arches, supported by pillars which are upon columns with Ionic capitals "(Theaters, p. 231). Above the cornice is surmounted by five windows open shelves. Moving from the ceiling decorated, you enter the room horseshoe shaped much enlarged.

There are three tiers of boxes (seventeen per order), with continuous parapet and a gallery surrounded by round arches. The ceiling is frescoed . On either side of the proscenium are located six medallions of gilded wood with the likeness of famous people linked to local history: Caesar Ercolani, Ramenghi Bartolomeo, Giovanni Maria Gucciardini, Tiberio Brandolini (captain), Carlo Goldoni and Luigi Valeriani Molinari (economist) . The large stage has the actors' dressing rooms at the sides and underneath the stage.
The theater still working today, underwent a quick restoration in the twenties and at the end of the war. In the years 1986-1987, a structural intervention was made for adjustment to safety standards. The scenes of the painter Badiali were destroyed, while the grid construction, the drums for the movement of the curtain, some machines for the noise of thunder, rain and lightning, are still preserved but in precarious conditions. The chandelier, according to oral tradition is similar to the original, although made of glass. The management of the theater is assigned to the Academy Perduta Romagna Teatro with performances of drama, children's theater, and concerts of music.