Open-air Performance

It is not generally known that Rome has a vast audience for ballet. The Teatro dell'Opera and Milan's Teatro alla Scala are Italy's only opera houses with fully fledged ballet companies in a position to compete internationally; this July La Scala Ballet is on tour in Kazakhstan, an oil country featuring a luxurious newly-built opera house. In Rome, there is also a private theatre offering ballet performances by touring private companies. Over the summer, several ballet festivals are organized in courtyards of baroque palaces and at Roman monuments...