Dedicated to the sisters Maria and Teresa Milanollo, famous violinists from Savigliano, the theater was designed in 1834 by the architect Maurizio Serafino Eula and its construction, on the site of a previous hall for shows, ended in 1836, when the performance of the opera L'esule di Roma by Gaetano Donizetti was staged.
The façade, inspired by the neoclassical canons, has a smooth ashlar base, with two side niches that house the statues of Tragedy and the Comedy; the upper part is marked by a slightly projecting forepart, punctuated by two fluted pilasters of the Ionic order, with broken floral friezes and rounds with portraits of the poets Alfieri and Metastasio, and closes, above the molding, with an attic of the sculptural group that represents the Genio della Gloria (Genius of Glory) that crowns Music and Poetry. Inside the building the hall is surrounded by two tiers of stages in addition to the gallery and the balconies.
The pictorial decorations, particularly refined, are the work of the artists Pietro Ayres and Angelo Moja, active in the orbit of Pelagio Palagi. Moja was responsible for the realization of the representative curtain of Apollo e le Muse sul monte Parnaso (Apollo and the Muses on Mount Parnassus).
