Opera program, Teatro Verdi, Salerno, Italy 1944 Teatro Verdi. The Salerno Theater ("Teatro Verdi") was done in 1872 and was decorated with paintings of Gaetano D'Agostino. The theater was heavily damaged during the 1980 earthquake and rebuilt in 1994, during the celebrations for the fifty years of "Salerno Capital of Italy". The city hosted the King of Italy, who moved from Rome in 1943 after Italy negotiated peace with the Allies in World War II. The brief so-called "Government of the South" was then established in the town that became the "capital" of Italy for some months. Some of the Allied landings during Operation Avalanche (the invasion of Italy) occurred near Salerno.