Teatro Municipale, Opera house in Piacenza, Italy.

The Teatro Municipale is an Italian-style opera house on Via Verdi, 41, in Piacenza. Its 1830 facade by Alessandro Sanquirico, former scenographer at La Scala, has a double portico topped by a balustraded terrace, an Ionic colonnade and a tympanum bearing the city's coat of arms. Above the main hall, the former production room became a 320-seat auditorium in the 1970s.

In September 1803 the Piacenza architect Lotario Tomba was commissioned by a society of local nobles to replace the ducal theatre of the Cittadella, destroyed by fire on 24 December 1798. The new theatre opened a year later with Giovanni Simone Mayr's Zamori, ossia l'Eroe delle Indie, written for the occasion. In 1830 Alessandro Sanquirico redesigned the facade, giving the building its present appearance.

The theatre was inaugurated in 1804 as the Teatro Nuovo with Giovanni Simone Mayr's Zamori, ossia l'Eroe delle Indie, written for the occasion to a libretto by Luigi Prividali. In February 1813 it staged Giuseppe Nicolini's Carlo Magno. Today it is one of four performance venues in Piacenza run by the Fondazione Teatri di Piacenza, alongside the Sala dei Teatini, the Teatro dei Filodrammatici and the Teatro San Matteo.

The theatre stands at Via Verdi 41, one of four performance venues in Piacenza run by the Fondazione Teatri di Piacenza, alongside the Sala dei Teatini, the Teatro dei Filodrammatici and the Teatro San Matteo. The covered portico on the facade was built so carriages could pass beneath it, letting audiences reach the entrance dry in the rain.

Above the main hall is the theatre's former production room, converted in the 1970s into a 320-seat auditorium. The building is one of four performance venues in Piacenza run by the Fondazione Teatri di Piacenza, alongside the Sala dei Teatini, the Teatro dei Filodrammatici and the Teatro San Matteo.