Trajan theater of Civitavecchia

The Theatre Trajan in Civitavecchia (RM) is located in Corso Centocelle and is the principal theater of the city, built in the late eighteenth century age. It is located between ‘Course Centocelle’ south and ‘Via Traiana’ north, before the eighteenth century ‘Palace of Finance’ and was designed by the ‘architect Antonio De Rossi was named in honor of the emperor Trajan Trajan Theatre founder of the city. The shape of the original structure was a horseshoe, with a wide audience, four tiers of boxes, each of which will contain twenty-three, and a large gallery located above them. There were three entrances, one for the box office, one for input and one in the hall to go to the shop for the coffee.
The curtain was made up of an oil painting depicting a sacrifice to Neptune Emperor Trajan to propitiate protection of the god of the sea for the construction of the port of Centuncellae. The inauguration took place in May 1844 with the premiere of Donizetti’s opera “Eustogia by Romano.”
Destroyed by bombing that struck the city in 1943, the theater was rebuilt and reopened in 1948.
The reconstruction of the theater did not keep all the original structure unchanged, but was completely redesigned. The boxes were replaced by the gallery and the whole room was occupied by the audience.
In 1978 the theater was closed for renovation.
On 29 May 1999 the municipal theater was reopened after more than twenty years of inactivity. The theater and the neoclassical facade has been completely restored and modernized, currently consists of a rectangular room with a ‘wide audience, a wide, low tunnel and two loggioni side.

The capacity of the theater is 638 seats:
384  in the stalls
206  in gallery
48  in lateral