All of the greatest singers of the era, like Farinelli, Caffarelli and Carestini, just to name a few of the most famous, appeared on this stage. Protagonists of numerous evenings among the most appreciated by some of Rome's highest society. and the most musically significant ever represented in Rome.
Even on the typical side of theater, important productions of prose, among those including great scripts by Goldini, were not lacking.
The last opera represented at the Capranica was Ernani by Giuseppe Verdi in 1881; afterwards the Theater was closed and reopened as a cinema in 1922.
After a silence which lasted for more than a century, the Capranica returned to "sound" in 2002, again devoted to music by the initiative of Montecitorio Events, desiring to increase its value once again with extraordinary natural characteristics, which today make the Theater an ideal scene for the presentation of musicals and theater performances of the highest level.




