The Teatro Comunale di Gubbio, formerly della Fama or Condominiale, began to be built in 1713 with more modest dimensions than the current ones. An academy specifically formed by noblemen from Gubbio promoted and financed the initiative. Internally, the building was designed and decorated around 1737 by the architect Maurizio Lottici and the painter Giovanni Mattioli, both from Parma, with the superintendence of the abbot Bartolomeo Benveduti. The Theatre was inaugurated during the carnival of 1738, and from the beginning it was used for plays, concerts and burlettes. The structural situation became critical in 1822: from this year began a forty-year period of intense planning and profound transformation of the building.
