Teatro Apollo-Piermarini [Foligno, IT]
type: Item
label: Teatro Apollo-Piermarini Foligno @it
label: Teatro Piermarini @es
label: Teatro Apollo-Piermarini
description: Theatre building in Foligno, Italy
description: Edificio teatrale a Foligno, Italia @it
alternative label: Teatro
EUTA building identifier: 4926
Importance: Not rated
Type of information: Performance venue
Field: architecture
Country: Italy
City: Foligno
Wikidata source: Q60195443
GPS: Point(12.7053 42.955)
Census of Italian theatres in 1863 ID: number uknown
Capacity: 1000
Census Italia 1968 ID: 100-8
opening date: 1827-09-01T00:00:00Z
Burnt down date: 1944-05-16T00:00:00Z
closure date: 1944-01-01T00:00:00Z
Wikidata instance: Q41253
Wikidata instance: Q24354
Carthalia ID: 3055
Preservation state: extant building
Preservation state: Disused
Note: Built 1827 by Pietro Ghinelli, incorporating parts of the Palazzo Gregori that occupied the site. Opened 1 Sep 1827 as Teatro Apollo with Gioacchino Rossini's opera Semiramide. 1891 renovations. Re-opened 1891 as Teatro Piermarini in honour of the Foligno-born theatre architect, Giuseppe Piermarini (1734-1808). 478 seats. Destroyed by aerial bombing on 16 May 1944, with only the facade and the foyer remaining. Subsequently rebuilt and mainly used as a cinema (named Cinema Vittoria). Currently used as exhibition space and bar.