BRAVISSIMO LA SCALA!
OF the great historical opera houses of Europe, La Scala is among the greatest. Although ballet is often defined as beginning with Louis XIV of France (1643-1715), in fact it can be argued that Italy is its true birth place. Dance spectacles were being performed in Italian courts from the early 15th century.
Italian teachers were seminal in the development of ballet: the great dance technician, Carlo Blasis, gave us The Code of Terpsichore, and his pupil, Giovanni Lepri, handed down the tradition to Enrico Cecchetti, whose method is still taught today. The Imperial Ballet School, founded in 1813, became one of the finest in the world.
