Built in a very short time thanks to the support of the Società dei Palchettisti, the Theatre was inaugurated  in 1861 with neoclassical architectural modules, according to the theatre-temple image that was characteristic of the first XIX century.

It was born with the intention of providing the city with a theatre suiting the tastes of the time, with the best acoustic and visual solutions, without compromising the comfort of boxes and stalls. In the same years also the open area of the Public Garden, collocated at the back, was designed; it consists of a large green area designed as environmental completion of the Theatre.

The interior was elegantly decorated by painters from Modena and Reggio with Baroque motifs. A remarkable attention must be paid to the curtain made by Giuseppe Ugolini in 1861 with “Orpheus and the Muses”. A curious detail; the artist has given the female characters the tracts of the local high-class beauties of Carpi in that time, thus causing great scandal  because of their nudity.

 

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Municipal Theatre