Exterior From the outside, the theatre looks hidden by surrounding buildings. Because of that, it is impossible to contemplate it in its entirety. For the exterior,
Sfondrini used
Teatro Costanzi as a model. Also there is a tempera painting depicting the
muses, made in 1916 by
Antonino Calcagnadoro. Other decorations are made by Giuseppe Casa. ;
Circolo di Lettura e
Sala degli Specchi Among other places, the theatre contains the
Circolo di lettura, consisting of a set of finely decorated rooms designed for balls and concerts. The main room is
Sala degli Specchi, a room furnished with huge mirrors (, hence the name) on the walls, and an allegoric painting by Giulio Rolland named
Le ebbrezze della Musica. ;Main room The main room is composed of a stall including 230 red seats, split in two by a central aisle. After the 2005 restoration, the room regained its cream tone. On the perimeter, there are three orders of
loges, for a total of 72 loges: 24 per floor.
The gods are on top of the loges, while the
stage is in front of them. On the loges' second order is the , decorated on the ceiling with an oval tempera painting by Giuseppe Casa depicting three
putti, while the balcony is decorated with stucco low relief depicting
Giuseppe Verdi. The balconies in the second and third order, as well as the ones in the gods, are decorated with putti and stuccos depicting musicians with their names written right below. Originally, the gods was meant to host more than one hundred people; nowadays, because of security measures, it can host up to thirty-three people. A big
dome overlooks the whole space. The dome is adorned with a rich
chandelier and frescoed in 1901 with a
tempera painting by Giulio Rolland. The fresco celebrates the
triumph of
Titus and
Flavius in
Rome after the
victory in Jerusalem. The
stage is enclosed by a
front curtain on which in 1910
Antonino Calcagnadoro painted the surrender of Jerusalem over
Vespasian after the
siege of Jerusalem. The painting is made with
tempera on canvas with a size of 13.4m x 7.6m. The curtain was long forgotten until, in 2019, it has been restored by
Accademia di Belle Arti dell'Aquila and was newly exhibited to the audience. In front of the stage, it is located the
orchestra pit. == Acoustics ==