The Municipal Theater was idealized in the molds of the best theaters of the world to take care of the opera - the first artistic form and of typical leisure of the bourgeoisie - and in virtue of the great number of Italians who lived in São Paulo. Since of its inauguration, two great restorations had marked the changes and renewals of the Theater: the first one happened in 1951 with architect Tito Raucht, who were responsible for the floors for magnifying of the dressing-rooms, and reduction of the berths; already as I restore, occurred of 1986 the 1991, commanded for the Department of Historic site of the City department of Culture, restoring the building and implementing more modern structures and equipment.

Today the Municipal theatre co-ordinates music schools and dances and searchs to develop each time more the work of its steady bodies: the Municipal Symphonic Orchestra, the Experimental Orchestra of Repertoire, the Ballet of the City, the Quarteto de Cordas, the Lyric Chorale and the Paulistano Chorale. For 2006, many presentations had been enclosed in the programming, as Operas, Concerts, Ballets and the great Mozarteando Festival, that the anniversary of 250 years of birth of Mozart homages.