Portfolio: Candida H

The teatro Comunale of Carpi - a town of 67,000 people in northern Italy - opened on 11 August 1861 with a performance of Verdi's Rigoletto. It has since become one of the Emilia-Romagna region's most important municipal theatres, a venue of prestigious recitals both musical and literary, its 582 seats taken up by descending flocks of culture vultures.