Municipal Theater Piacenza

The works began in September 1803, and already on September 10, 1804 the 'Nuovo' Theater was inaugurated with pomp and with the performance of the drama 'Zamori' namely the Hero of the Indies, written for the occasion by Bavarian master Giovanni Simone Mayr . The party involved the whole city in an unforgettable day, animated by a fair, fireworks, a big car in papier mache set up in Piazza Cavalli, dances and horse races.

The Hall of Piacenza - with over 1000 seats, including auditorium, two rows of boxes, two main tunnels and the one of the gallery - has a general neoclassical style that recalls the Scala in Milan. However, unlike the design of theater in Milan by Piermarini, who arranged the stalls in the shape of a horseshoe, Tomba designed a plant to three quarters of an ellipse, vlueing that structure more responsive to the laws of optics and acoustics.
The Nuovo Theater opened with its neoclassical furnitures, but after little more than twenty years, in 1830, the interior decorations required renovation and new construction was entrusted to Alessandro Sanquirico, art director of La Scala Theater. The boxes are also standardized inside: they are all painted blue and decorated with golden starlets.
In 1930 also the facade was built, but its present appearance is the result of the review Sanquirico made of the initial idea by Tomba , scaling the neoclassical influence. The frontispiece, also present at La Scala, here is an element of a functional nature: the carriages stopped there under, as demonstrated by the wheel prints still remaining there, and sheltered the men who were hurrying to enter the theater. The bottom rusticated plaster, is dominated by an Ionic colonnade and a beautiful stone balcony