Along with it also Teatro Farnese and part of Biblioteca Palatina were destroyed by Allied bombs.

* The 3, 000 seat Teatro Farnese, the first permanent proscenium theatre, is built into the Great Hall of the Palazzo della Pilotta in Parma, Italy.

The most likely candidate for the first true proscenium arch in a permanent theatre is the Teatro Farnese in Parma ( 1618 ).

The Teatro Olimpico is, along with the Teatro all ' antica in Sabbioneta and the Teatro Farnese in Parma, one of only three Renaissance theatres remaining in existence.

By this time Naples seems to have become tired of his music ; the Romans, however, appreciated it better, and it was at the Teatro Capranica in Rome that he produced some of his finest operas ( Telemaco, 1718 ; Marco Attilio Regolò, 1719 ; La Griselda, 1721 ), as well as some noble specimens of church music, including a mass for chorus and orchestra, composed in honor of Saint Cecilia for Cardinal Acquaviva in 1721.

Rossini's most famous opera was produced on 20 February 1816, at the Teatro Argentina in Rome.

Although it did not win, Le Villi was later staged in 1884 at the Teatro Dal Verme and it caught the attention of Giulio Ricordi, head of G. Ricordi & Co. music publishers, who commissioned a second opera, Edgar, in 1889.

Her debut at Teatro alla Scala took place in 1842 as " Neocle " in the Italian version of Le siège de Corinthe, which was followed by roles in operas by Marliani, Donizetti ( as " Maffio Orsini "), Salvi and Pacini.

Opening a new theatre in Parma, his Zaira ( 1829 ) was a failure at the Teatro Ducale, but Venice welcomed I Capuleti e i Montecchi, which was based on the same Italian source as Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

José Castel was one of several composers to write for the Teatro del Príncipe.

The opera was soon mounted at major opera houses throughout Italy, including the Teatro Regio di Parma ( 20 April 1872 ), the Teatro di San Carlo ( 30 March 1873 ), La Fenice ( 11 June 1873 ), the Teatro Regio di Torino ( 26 December 1874 ), the Teatro Comunale di Bologna ( 30 September 1877, with Giuseppina Pasqua as Amneris and Franco Novara as the King ), and the Teatro Costanzi ( 8 October 1881, with Theresia Singer as Aida and Giulia Novelli as Amneris ) among others.

After some revisions between 1853 and May 1854, mostly affecting acts 2 and 3, the opera was presented again in Venice, this time at the Teatro San Benedetto.

The opera was first performed at the Teatro Apollo, Rome, on 19 January 1853 where it " began a victorious march throughout the operatic world ".

The Italian premiere on 27 October 1867 at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, conducted by Verdi's close friend Angelo Mariani, was an " instant success ", and this version, although produced in Verdi's absence, was more complete and included the ballet.

The world premiere performance of La bohème was in Turin on 1 February 1896 at the Teatro Regio and conducted by the young Arturo Toscanini.

The world première performance of La bohème took place in Turin on 1 February 1896 at the Teatro Regio and was conducted by the young Arturo Toscanini.

The first performance of La bohème outside Italy was at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 16 June 1896.

The opera was first presented in Brazil at the Teatro Amazonas in Manaus on 2 July 1901 with Elvira Miotti as Mimì, Mabel Nelma as Musetta, Michele Sigaldi as Rodolfo, and Enrico De Franceschi as Marcello.

The première of Cavalleria rusticana, winner of the Sonzogno contest, was held May 17 at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome.

L ' amico Fritz, Mascagni's second most successful opera, was premiered October 31 at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome.

I Rantzau was premiered November 10 at the Teatro La Pergola, in Florence, under the direction of the composer himself.

On February 16, 1895 Guglielmo Ratcliff was premiered at the Teatro alla Scala of Milan.

The Teatro Olimpico (" Olympic Theatre ") is a theatre in Vicenza, northern Italy: constructed in 1580-1585, it is the oldest and first enclosed theatre in the world.

Some authors have incorrectly stated that when the Teatro Olimpico was constructed in 1580-1585, it was the first purpose-built theatre in Europe in over a thousand years.

The theatre " Teatro Macció " was constructed at the turn of the 20th century.

* 1816 – Rossini's opera The Barber of Seville premieres at the Teatro Argentina in Rome.

* 1816 – The Teatro di San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is destroyed by fire.

* Le Villi, libretto by Ferdinando Fontana ( in one act – premiered at the Teatro Dal Verme, 31 May 1884 )

* 1919 – 150 die at the Teatro Yaguez fire, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.

* 1839 – Oberto, Giuseppe Verdi's first opera, opens at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan,

* 1737 – The Teatro di San Carlo is inaugurated.

* 1827 – Bellini's third opera Il pirata is premiered at Teatro alla Scala di Milano

* The Teatro Regio (" Royal Theatre "), built in 1821 – 1829 by Nicola Bettoli.

* May 16 – Twenty-two years after the start of construction, Teatro Massimo opens in Palermo, the largest opera theatre in Italy and the third largest in Europe.

* March 14 – Verdi's Macbeth premieres at Teatro della Pergola in Florence, Italy.

* November 3 – Giuseppe Verdi's I due Foscari debuts at Teatro Argentina, Rome.

* January 19 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore premieres in performance at Teatro Apollo in Rome.

* February 20 – Gioachino Rossini's opera Il Barbiere di Siviglia premieres at the Teatro Argentina in Rome.

* November 4 – The Teatro di San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is inaugurated in Naples, Italy.

Title page of a libretto for performances at the Teatro Pagliano in Florence in April – May 1869 which used the Italian translation by Achille de Lauzières

Rodolfo – costume design by Adolfo Hohenstein for the premiere at Teatro Regio, 1896

* Pagliacci – 21 May 1892, Teatro Dal Verme, Milan.

* I Medici – 9 November 1893, Teatro Dal Verme, Milan ).

* Chatterton – 10 March 1896, Teatro Argentina, Rome.

* La bohème – 6 May 1897, Teatro La Fenice, Venice.

* Zazà – 10 November 1900, Teatro Lirico, Milan.

* Maïa – 15 January 1910, Teatro Costanzi, Rome.

* Mimi Pinson – 1913, Teatro Massimo, Palermo.

* Goffredo Mameli – 27 April 1916, Teatro Carlo Felice, Genoa.