The Municipal Theatre of Santiago was inaugurated on September 17, 1857, with the opera Ernani by g. Verdi. The beautiful building was the same walls that the current, the room ceiling and half circle-shaped relied on the curved arches. The Center, imposing until today, large lamp with wide glass tears. It had a capacity for more than 1,800 people and localities were divided into stalls, boxes and galleries. On December 8, 1870, just thirteen years after its inauguration, the Municipal Theater of Santiago was destroyed almost completely by a voracious fire that was declared after a presentation of the famous soprano Carlota Patti. Already rebuilt according to the plans ancient and retaining its primitive elegance and structure, the Municipal Theatre was inaugurated on July 16, 1873.
A great Italian lyric company presented La Fuerza del Destino, by Giuseppe Verdi opera. A new disaster hit in 1906: an earthquake destroyed the foyer and the main hall. The theatre improved in elegance and Lordship. Another fire, on May 27, 1927, caused serious damage on stage and side enclosures. With its restoration, expanded the scenario. Because of its size, beauty and good acoustics, currently are also performed concerts in the room Claudio Arrau. The theatre has been object of reforms and adjustments to put it abreast with the advances of modern theatrical technique, overhauling some of its dependencies, to provide both the artists and technicians an effective means that will successful and exciting expression to the miracle of art, in any of its forms.August 9, 1974, the beautiful building was declared a national monument. The Municipal Theatre of Santiago has three stable bodies, Orquesta Filarmonica de Santiago, Santiago and choir of the Municipal Theater Ballet, and workshops of painting, costume, setting, lighting and sound among others.