The Teatro Municipale di Gubbio stands in Piazza del Popolo and the project for its construction was presented in 1713 by an academy of Gubbio noblemen. The interior decoration was carried out some years later, in 1737, and entrusted to the expert hands of two famous artists from Parma: the architect Maurizio Lottici and the painter Giovanni Mattioli. The theatre was inaugurated on the occasion of the Carnival of the following year, immediately hosting recitals and concerts until its first structural problems appeared in 1822, requiring important restoration and alteration of the original structure.
Work began in 1840 under the engineer Ercole Salmi, who even proceeded to purchase the adjoining house to allow for the expansion of the stage. Between 1859 and 1862, interior decoration was also carried out, an activity that featured important local and foreign artists, including Raffaele Antonioli, Ulisse Baldelli and Nazzareno Lunani.
The new theatre was then inaugurated for the second time in 1862 and was home to thriving artistic and cultural activities for a century until 1961 when, once again, it was declared unstable due to its precariousness.
New building works commenced in 1975 under the engineer Giuseppe Tosti, ending in 1985 with the definitive reopening of the theatre, named after maestro Luca Ronconi in 2015.
In its present form, the theatre has a capacity of 414 seats and hosts a wide variety of theatrical performances that invigorate Gubbio’s social scene every year.