After its closure in 1999 and an important renovation project which has redeveloped spaces and brought it back to its original splendor, the new Teatro Lirico, designed by the architect Piermarini and inaugurated in 1779, dedicated to Giorgio Gaber, reopens in 2021 to be the symbolic place for Milanese show business.
The conservative renovation project has recovered and redeveloped all the components that were still present, following the historical architectural setting (Classical Italian horseshoe-shaped theaters with stalls, two-tier boxes, balconies and decoration) and has add an innovative mechanical system that offers the possibility, depending on the representations, to modulate additional proscenium space through three independent moving bridges that allow the orchestra pit creation, an extension of the stage or an extension of the stalls.
The Theater, with its 9,000 square meters, has about1,400 seats (700 in the stalls, 110 boxes and 590 in gallery and balcony), has two foyers and numerous rooms for events and communication activities (from 30 to 300 guests).