The "Goldoni", the only large historical theater in Livorno that survived the damage caused by the bombings of the Second World War, was born following the urban and architectural transformations carried out in Livorno in the first half of the century. XIX during the Lorraine government, when the new economic force, the mercantile bourgeoisie, felt the need to create spaces that symbolize their social status.
The entrepreneurs Francesco and Alessandro Caporali on 1 October 1842 officially took the decision to "erect a new and extraordinary theater, for which Livorno will be the third Italian city that will acquire the merit of such an important building".
The construction of the building, located along the road called the old via di Montenero, between the new church of S. Maria del Soccorso and the Israelitico Hospital, was entrusted to the young architect Giuseppe Cappellini, assisted by the master builder Benedetto Malfanti, while executors of the internal works were the brothers Giacomo and Giovanni Medici of Milan, authors of the ornaments, Pietro Bernardini, stucco and scagliola executor and the marble worker Ceccardo Ravenna. The works lasted four years: from 1843 to 1847.
The theater was called "Imperial and Royal Theater Leopoldo" in honor of the Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo II of Lorraine and was inaugurated on 24 July 1847.
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