The Teatro Regio in Turin was designed by the architect Carlo Mollino and built between 1965 and 1973. Later, in 1996, new work was carried out by the architects Aimaro Isola and Roberto Gabetti.
The theatre’s recent history began on the morning of 9 February 1936 when it was seriously damaged by a fire. The following year, a competition was held to design a new theatre with the most modern facilities.

The winners of the competition were Aldo Morbelli and Robaldo Morozzo della Rocca but the outbreak of war postponed the building work and the project was left substantially at the planning stage. Finally in 1957, the city of Turin decided to complete the work and the architect, Carlo Mollino, with Marziano Bernardi, Vittorio Viale, Carlo Graffi and engineers, Adolfo and Marcello Zavelani Rossi, drafted the final project for rebuilding of the Turin theatre: it was an “open” solution that immediately revealed its foyer of suspended ramps and footways which could were not visible from piazza Castello. Mollino completed the draft project in four months and the working project three months after that. In 1996 the theatre hall underwent acoustic renovation by the architects Roberto Gabetti and Aimaro Isola who introduced a number of new architectural features into the original profile especially in the hall and the proscenium stage which was modified with a grid structure. A fine gate created in the same period by the sculptor Umberto Mastroianni closed off the small covered piazza opposite the theatre, a decision that mortified the Mollino project and denied the city of a public area.