The Teatro dell’Opera di Roma has set a record for attendance at the Caracalla Festival during its 2023 season.

The company closed its summer season with 115,980 sold tickets which were up 5,267 from the 110,713 it sold in 2022. It was also up 9,288 from the 106,692 the company sold in 2019, the year before the pandemic. The opening performance of Verdi’s “La Traviata” was in particular a huge success as it became the most sold performance and the opera had the most spectators since 2001.

Tourists made up 30 percent of the public with 23 percent from foreign countries and the audience under 40 made up 30 percent of ticket buyers.

In a statement, the mayor and president of the Fondazione, Roberto Gualtieri said, “The record with which the first edition of Caracalla Festival 2023 ends confirms how much the artistic proposal of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma has been appreciated by the public for which I thank the Superintendent Francesco Giambrone and all the professionalism that has made it possible to achieve these extraordinary results. The search by the Opera di Roma for new itineraries and a broad and quality offer that includes initiatives that are attentive to social issues such as the Linea Opera is a source of pride for the whole city”.

This season the Caracalla Festival presented “The Great Dictator” by Charlie Chaplin, “La Traviata,” “Rigoletto” and Roberto Bolle and Friends, among other works.