Dal Verme Theatre is located on Milan's San Giovanni sul Muro street, and the site for its construction was not chosen by chance - another theater, Politeama Ciniselli, used to stand here.
The modern theater got its name from its owner, Francesco Dal Verme. It was he who commissioned the architect Giuseppe Pestagalli to design the building in the neoclassical style. It is worth noting that neoclassicism was only just coming into fashion at the time, and so Pestagalli skillfully combined it with the baroque style that was customary then. The result was a small irregularly shaped building painted in muted pink tones.
The theater's main entrance is a compact rectangular hall decorated with archways. Interestingly, arches can be found everywhere in this building, and not only in the familiar oval shape, but also rectangular ones, and even almost round ones.
The theater's main hall seats three thousand people. In 1872, Meyerbeer's opera "Les Huguenots" was presented here as the premiere performance, and, according to sources from that time, there was not a single empty seat at this performance.
But various theatrical productions and concert programs are not the only type of entertainment that characterizes the Dal Verme Theatre. Both in the 19th century and now, this building is often used as a conference hall where political debates are held and various themed forums are organized.
