Teatro Mario Del Monaco

It was built on land owned by the Onigo family and occupied by rundown houses, shops and warehouses, all of which were demolished to make way for the new theatre.

[1][2] By the late 1830s, the Onigo family had ceded the management of the theatre to a society formed by its box holders, the Società dei Palchettisti.

With the city suffering badly from the Allied bombing in World War II, it sold the theatre to Venerio Monti and his family in 1944.

Such theatres are recognized by the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage as having made a particular impact on their city's artistic and musical traditions.

[4] The Comunale also initiated an international singing competition in 1969 at the suggestion of Antonio Mazzarolli (later mayor of the city and an Italian senator) and the soprano Toti Dal Monte who was born in the Province of Treviso.

The competition launched the careers of many future opera stars including Ghena Dimitrova, Mariella Devia, Ferruccio Furlanetto, and Lorenzo Regazzo.

After his retirement from the stage in 1975 and until his death in 1982, Del Monaco had lived in the Villa Luisa on the outskirts of Treviso and taught singing there to private pupils.

Stefano Canazza, the head of the Conservatorio Steffani in Castelfranco Veneto, was appointed the Teatro Del Monaco's Artistic Director.

The 2019/2020 season, the first under the management of the Teatro Stabile del Veneto, opened on 25 October 2019 with a production of Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly.

The remaining operas of the season were Albinoni's La Statira, Strauss's Il pipistrello, Donizetti's Rita and Puccini's Gianni Schicchi.