The Theatre was built between 1835 and 1838 accoding to the will of the nobility. The opening stages was Donizetti’s “La Parisina”, performed the day of Easter in 1838.
According to an oral tradition, the Theatre was planned by a Neapolitan architect; but the engineer Sylos Labini in his book “Storia di Bitonto” attributes the project of the thetre to the architect Luigi Castellucci, belonging to theNeapolitan school too.
The building of the Theatre was inspired by the “Italian style theatre” with several lines of stands horseshoe-shaped (stalls and 4 stands for a totalal ammount of 260).
At the beginning the Theatre has been used as a film theatre but then was abandoned because of a crash of the roof.
Only in 2005, after several restoration, the Theatre was reopened with the representation of Tommaso Traetta’s “Il Cavaliere Errante”, directed by Michele Mirabella, who is the artistic director of the Theatre, and by the conductor Vito Clemente.
