The Apollo Theatre was inaugurated long before I was born. It was the pride of a bourgeois society that could not consider itself "European" without theater and opera. Its design, by the Italian architect Pietro Sambo, was not simple, based on at least four Italian standards. Rumors say it's a miniature of Milan's opera house "La Scala". Its curtain opened with Verdi's famous opera "Rigoletto" performed by a troupe from Italy on April 20, 1864. On the outside the theater didn’t have any particular architectural decoration, it was a simple two-storey building with a low marble base and plastered facades.