Teatro Argentina
You’re in front of the Teatro Argentina—“Teatro Argentina”—one of Rome’s oldest theatres, built in the early 1730s by architect Gerolamo Theodoli. It was inaugurated on 31 January 1732, when Domenico Sarro’s *Berenice* took the stage. But here’s the twist: the theatre is constructed over part of the curia section of the Theatre of Pompey—the very place tied to the assassination of Julius Caesar. So even before the curtain rises, the ground has a political weight. In the early 1800s, Duke Francesco Sforza-Cesarini ran the Argentina Theatre from 1807 to 1815 and worked through debt like a true theatre fanatic. After his death, Rossini’s *The Barber of Seville* premiered here on 20 February 1816. Later, Verdi’s *I due Foscari* arrived on 3 November 1844, and *La battaglia di Legnano* premiered on 27 January 1849. …
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