Early morning in late December 1992 looking south along Corso Umberto at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modica" class="extiw" title="en:Modica">Modica</a> (Muòrica), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicily" class="extiw" title="en:Sicily">Sicily</a>, Italy. The large building on the left is 172 Corso Umberto, the Palazzo degli Studi, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liceo_classico" class="extiw" title="en:Liceo classico">Classical Lyceum</a> for secondary education, which today is a building under restoration by the city authorities. The palace, dating to 1630 and built under the sponsorship of Countess Vittoria Colonna de Cabrera, the mother of the 1641 to 1644 Spanish Viceroy of Sicily <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Alfonso_Enr%C3%ADquez_de_Cabrera" class="extiw" title="en:Juan Alfonso Enríquez de Cabrera">Alfonso Enriquez de Cabrera</a> as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Jesus" class="extiw" title="en:Society of Jesus">Jesuit</a> convent and college attached to the adjoining Church of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Perpetual_Help" class="extiw" title="en:Our Lady of Perpetual Help">St Maria del Soccorso</a>, educated Modica's aristocracy to university degree level as the Royal College of secondary and higher studies. The Jesuits were expelled from Sicily in 1804, but returned to Modica in 1812 under a prerequisite that the school provided education to the public. In 1862, after the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_unification" class="extiw" title="en:Italian unification">reunification of Italy</a> and the second expulsion of the Jesuits, the school became a municipal high school, becoming the 'Archimedes' Royal Technical Institute in 1866. In 1878 the school took the name of the scientist and philosopher <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommaso_Campailla" class="extiw" title="en:Tommaso Campailla">Tommaso Campailla</a> of Modica.<br><br>The building on the right with the arched facade is the the Teatro Garibaldi, idented in 1992 as 'Cine Teatro Garibaldi', at 207-11 Corso Umberto. The theatre, with auditorium stalls of a little over 100 seats and four semi-oval tiered balconies, dates from 1817, when the building was converted from a warehouse through citizen patronage. The theatre was primarily for a variety of amateur performance, although comedy repertoire was discouraged during religious festivals in what became a municipal theatre. Out of town professional companies at times gave play, opera and ballet performances, sponsored by businessmen from other parts of Sicily, and the theatre was on occasion rented for non-theatrical activities, including political. The 1846 season featured the works of Italian composer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Paolo_Paladino" class="extiw" title="en:Giovanni Paolo Paladino">Giovanni Paolo Paladino</a>. The theatre at this time didn't contain an orchestra pit for the 20 of the then itinerant musicians who performed on a platform near the stage, but this was rectified during an 1852 to 1857 renovation and enlargement, provided for by government and citizen funding, which included the addition of boxes and upper galleries. The auditorium was stucco-ed and gilded, with a stage curtain painted with an allegory of the victory of Italy over the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Habsburg" class="extiw" title="en:House of Habsburg">Habsburgs</a>. In 1860 the theatre changed its name as a tribute to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Garibaldi" class="extiw" title="en:Giuseppe Garibaldi">Giuseppe Garibaldi</a>. It became municipal property in 1870, after which it also became a centre for working men, organizing charity events, music teaching, and amateur talent singing. Between 1900 until after the First World War, Teatro Garibaldi specialized in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operetta" class="extiw" title="en:Operetta">operettas</a>, operas and, in the 1920s-30s, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variety_show" class="extiw" title="en:Variety show">variety</a>. The theatre also added projection facilities for cinema. For the year 1936 the auditorium was transformed to provide a boxing ring, and the stage used for young fascists competing in fencing championships. A restoration completed in 1945 provided an update to a "shabby and outdated" theatre and cinema. Up to a closure in 1984, Teatro Garibaldi presented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_theatre" class="extiw" title="en:Amateur theatre">amateur dramatics</a>, dance, singing competitions, school choirs and concerts, with visiting performances by artists such as soprano <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Caniglia" class="extiw" title="en:Maria Caniglia">Maria Caniglia</a>. After 1984 the theatre was again restored to late 19th-century style.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&amp;sl=it&amp;u=http://www.fondazioneteatrogaribaldi.org/&amp;prev=search">[1]</a><br><br><b>Processing</b>: SLR camera negative <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_scanner" class="extiw" title="en:Image scanner">scanned</a> with an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seiko_Epson" class="extiw" title="en:Seiko Epson">Epson</a> Perfection V800 using <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SilverFast" class="extiw" title="en:SilverFast">SilverFast 8</a> scan program, and optimized, cropped and spun with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Photoshop#CS2" class="extiw" title="en:Adobe Photoshop">Adobe Photoshop CS2</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DxO_OpticsPro" class="extiw" title="en:DxO OpticsPro">DxO OpticsPro 10 Elite</a>.
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