Set up in 1997 on the initiative of the Teatro Marrucino and the composer Sergio Rendine, the Teatro Marrucino Chorus has, in the space of a few years, achieved a professional standard of performance, with both a concert and operatic repertoire. The founder of the chorus, Donato Martorella, now Honorary President, was succeeded in 2002 by the present chorus-master, Fabio D’Orazio.