Quetzaltenango Municipal Theatre, Opera house and theatre in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala.

Quetzaltenango Municipal Theatre is an opera house and performance venue in the center of Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. The building is designed in a neoclassical style, with a large auditorium, balconies, and a stage used for concerts, theatre productions, and opera performances.

In 1889 President Manuel Lisandro Barillas backed the mayor Manuel Estrada Cabrera's call for a theatre. After contract delays, architect Enrique Jones took over and the building, with a French Renaissance facade, was inaugurated on 19 July 1895, the birthday of Justo Rufino Barrios. An earthquake damaged it on 18 April 1902; it reopened on 21 November 1908 with a Neoclassical facade by Domingo Goicolea, built by Alberto Boj.

The theatre sits on the central square of Quetzaltenango, making it part of the daily life of the city rather than a place apart. Performances draw mainly local audiences, and the building is a meeting point for people who follow the arts in the region.

The theatre is right on the central square and easy to reach on foot from most parts of the city center. It is worth checking the programme in advance, since visits outside of scheduled events offer little to see inside.

Quetzaltenango once declared itself the capital of a short-lived independent state called Los Altos in 1838, and the city has carried a sense of independence ever since. Building its own opera house was an unusual step for a city of this size in Central America at that time.