Teatro Delle Arti

The Theatre of the Arts is the dream that came true for a handful of Salerno artists who for years sought a permanent home where the accommodation of the hopes, plans, ambitions, skills, their artistic and organizational values. Nobody would have given credit on a similar project, difficult for the realization, onerous for the financial commitment, strenuous for the continuous and lasts daily from deal.

A few jokes with the current on the mayor. De Luca and the then Mayor De Biase, and the space was entrusted after a regular request to the relevant departments and the junta that ruled the city of Salerno, in the state where he was and without any financial commitment.

An appeal was collected by the Province of Salerno, who bore the expenses for the purchase of chairs and the preparation of Palco. The adventure began in April 2003. The property was in a state of disrepair, and housed on outer space even a crane with a lot of rubble abandoned long ago. The interior was devastated by occasional nocturnal visitors who enjoyed making raids, for the sake of destroying.

He had to do it all, give it a new face, a theater with its necessities and security guarantees to host the activity and divide it by the neighboring courts, school and city.

Trinkets ... In short entrusted to the construction company of Franco Santoro made up of hard workers and friends who have built stone by stone all that is visible today, directed by the architect Giuliano Pope.

The furnishings and the image are designed and cared for in the interior Antonio Mainardi and prof. Jasmine D'Ambrosio, the design that can be seen in the foyer was painted by Pietro List. As you do not know, but certainly in February 2004, he was inaugurated the Theatre of Arts, in the presence of His Eminence Cardinal Martini, former president Lucia Annunziata Rai, Carlo Verdone and friends and supporters Vincenzo De Luca, Mario de Biase and Alfonso Andria and the many institutional and artistic authorities present.