 Heavy metal musician Devin Townsend recorded his live album Ocean Machine - Live at the Ancient Roman Theatre Plovdiv in the theatre, accompanied with the Plovdiv Opera's Orchestra and Choir.At the end of the 4th century a large part of the theatre was destroyed (by either fire or earthquake).This was until the late 1960s when the ruins of the structure were found during archeological excavations in the region carried out by the Plovdiv archeological museum staff.