Festival Di Caracalla 2021
Festival Di Caracalla 2021
There’s no better way to spend a balmy summer night in Rome than enjoying an opera, ballet or concert at the Baths of Caracalla. A cultural hub and vibrant social spot back in Ancient Rome, the Baths were the equivalent of a community day spa, where Romans would go to bathe and socialize. It was a place to entertain and to be entertained. Fast-forward thousands of years later, and the ruins have become an open-air, improvised stage that welcomes thousands of locals and tourists every summer.
2021 summer’s list of operas and concerts performed by Rome’s Teatro dell’Opera will be the same performances that were planned for the 2020 edition. This includes the Roman singer Claudio Baglioni (6-18 Jun 2021), Andrea Bocelli (21 Jun 2021), Vinicio Capossela (23 Jun 2021), the English National Ballet Strictly Gershwin (TBA), the Barbiere di Siviglia (TBA), the Aida (TBA1), the worldwide famous ballet dancer Roberto Bolle and Friends (13 – 14 July 2021), the singer-songwriter Yusuf (20 July), historically known as Cat Stevens, the German pop and crossover violinist David Garrett (26 Jul 2021) and Franz Lehár’s La Vedova Allegra – The Merry Widow (TBA).
About the Festival Di Caracalla
There’s no better way to spend a balmy summer night in Rome than enjoying an opera, ballet or concert at the Baths of Caracalla. A cultural hub and vibrant social spot back in Ancient Rome, the Baths were the equivalent of a community day spa, where Romans would go to bathe and socialize. It was a place to entertain and to be entertained. Fast-forward thousands of years later, and the ruins have become an open-air, improvised stage that welcomes thousands of locals and tourists every summer.
The music festival Caracalla Festival takes place in June-August in the famous Roman baths of Caracalla. The second largest public baths, built in the early 3rd century by order of the Roman emperor Antonino Caracalla, are now the most important archaeological site in Italy. In addition, it is one of the largest open-air theaters in Europe, where since 1937 the Music Festival at the Baths of Caracalla (Caracalla Festival) has been held.
The majestic ruins of the Baths of Caracalla have become a natural backdrop for such great operas as Aida, Carmen, Tosca, Nabucco, Turandot. The spacious stage with a hall for 20,000 seats turned into the main theater stage of the Roman summer. Over the years, the voices of Maria Callas and Beniamino Gigli sounded here, the first performance of three legendary tenors took place: Placido Domingo, Jose Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti. In 1993, theatrical performances were stopped for some time due to restoration work, but already at the beginning of the new millennium, the performances of the summer musical seasons resumed, again attracting the world's best performers to the festival.
The basis of the festival program in the Baths of Caracalla is the performances of the Rome Opera (Teatro dell'Opera di Roma).
