Teatro Municipal, Theatre in Viña del Mar, Chile

Teatro Municipal is a historicist theatre facing Plaza Vergara in Viña del Mar. Its reinforced concrete and brick-and-stone masonry building has Ionic-order columns at the entrance. It was designed by architects Renato Schiavon and Aquiles Landoff and inaugurated in 1930.

The building was constructed between 1925 and 1930 under the direction of architects Renato Schiavon and Aquiles Landoff, who applied European architectural styles of that era. In 2009 it received official designation as a Historical Monument of Chile through official decree.

The theatre's opening night on 11 October 1930 featured the Compañía Lírica Italiana and a performance of Jules Massenet's opera Thaïs, with President Carlos Ibáñez del Campo and mayor Manuel Ossa Saint-Marie in attendance. The name Teatro Municipal follows the Chilean custom of naming municipal theatres after the city administration that owns them.

The theatre faces Plaza Vergara, at the corner of Arlegui and Etchevers streets in central Viña del Mar, and is reached on foot from the nearby metro and bus stops. It reopened to the public on 1 December 2023 after restoration, so check the current programme before travelling.

The land was donated in 1889 by Mercedes Álvarez, wife of city founder José Francisco Vergara, three decades before construction began. The theatre reopened on 1 December 2023 after restoration following the 2010 earthquake.