Inizieremo il nostro breve escursus sui teatri palermitani da quando Domenico Caracciolo Marchese di Villamaina, reduce da Parigi e Londra, fu inviato a Palermo come viceré di Sicilia da Ferdinando IV di Borbone.
Real Teatro Santa Cecilia
Theatre Santa Cecilia was built and designed by the Union of Musicians with the economic contribution of the viceroy Uzeda and much of the nobility of Palermo. It was built near the Fieravecchia, lounge with a horseshoe. Opened its doors and the curtain 28 August 1693, after nearly a year of existence, was inaugurated with a performance of sacred tragedy "penitent Innocence" by Vincenzo Kitten, dedicated to St. Rosalia with music by Ignazio Pulici. Because of the earthquake of 1726 remained closed for 10 years. in 1787 with the contribution of another Viceroy: Francesco D'Aquino, Prince of Caram, is always restored and renovated by the Union of Musicians. The curtain opens again on June 2 of that year with the work "Ariarathes" musical drama of the master Angelo Tarchi, Neapolitan composer, libretto by Ferdinando Moretti already presented in 1786 in Milan. After further restoration took place in 1813 by architect Giuseppe Catania Bridges, who made changes in the room that was equipped with a mechanism that lowers the stage at floor level to create a large ballroom. The last renovation took place in 1855 with whom he was completely refurbished inside and the statement by the architects Joseph Di Bartolo and Carlo Palermo Giachery that although he was born in Padua, he lived in Sicily since the age of six years. In 1888. The theater finally closed its Santa Cecilia activities. It would be sad to attribute such termination, as claimed by Luigi Maniscalco Basile- in his "History of the Teatro Massimo in Palermo and Leo S. Olschki (from which the writer has drawn quite a few news) that this would be for the" cut-throat competition of the Real Teatro Carolino. The closure of even a small theater as the Santa Cecilia only for the activity of the Carolino denote the lack of desire for the culture of Palermo at the time. The same author in a row, will quote the opening of the Theatre Politeama, in 1874 already fourteen years before closing
Real Teatro Santa Cecilia. Taking into account even the closure of the Theatre of this music appears unclear, because the repertoire of 1888 was already quite extensive, including opera, symphonic music, and sacred, not taking account of the dramas that the existing theaters at the time, given again the lack of cinemas, they could satisfy the people without fail. Unfortunately, today the theater is no longer active for many years was desecrated for the storage of the room and the stage has lost all trace. 
Auspichiamo, sempre con i tempi che tutte le amministrazioni comunali dal 1860 hanno sempre rispettato ,
come vediamo da queste foto:
1) are not only for a restoration to the prospectus, hoping that the images should be replaced at the top, which seek only to imitate the sculptures.
2) does not last for a few generations.
3) are finalized, really, to the reopening of the historic theater ,
with performances worthy of its historic tradition. .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-
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