In Caracalla, record budget for the Opera House summer season

With the last rerun of Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia the return of the summer season of the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma to the Baths of Caracalla came to an end.

    After two years of forced absence, due to the pandemic, from the traditional site of the Baths of Caracalla, the review achieved extraordinary results.

The 32 evenings of opera, ballet and extras shows recorded an attendance of 110,713 spectators, a result higher (+ 3.8%) than the 106,692 recorded in 2019, the last year before the pandemic.

In particular, the first evening of Carmen on 15 July recorded the absolute record of spectators and collection of an opera in Caracalla (3,813 tickets sold for a collection of approximately 187 thousand euros).

The filling rate of the entire exhibition stood at 76.9% compared to 71.8% in the last edition of 2019. These data, together with that of total receipts of over 6.7 million euros,

    "The return of the season of the Opera Theater in Caracalla is confirmed as an event particularly loved by Romans and tourists, as evidenced by the record of attendance and tickets sold with over 110 thousand spectators who attended the 32 evenings of opera, dance and concerts ", declares the Mayor and President of the Roberto Gualtieri Foundation.

    «Caracalla is once again the great stage of the Roman summer - says Superintendent Francesco Giambrone -.

It was filled every evening with an enthusiastic audience with many young people, many tourists and many Roman and Roman people who demonstrated how much need there was to return to the site to which the city is traditionally linked ».

The curtain of the Costanzi Theater will rise again on 13 September on the great dance.

Preljocaj evening with Annonciation (1995) and Nuit Romaine (2021).

Protagonists Eleonora Abbagnato and Friedemann Vogel with étoiles, principal dancers, soloists and Corps de Ballet of the Opera di Roma.

A special evening that combines dance and fashion, which marks the return of Preljocaj and a new extraordinary collaboration with Maria Grazia Chiuri's Haute Couture for Maison Dior.

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