In a small villa not hiding it's age in a road facing onto the arches of the roman aquaduct named Felice, behing the train tunnel and charming streets. For years years this place of passion and art has won the hearts of many adolescents taken in by the fascination of the ballet shoes and stage.

Founded in 1928, the Dance School of the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma is one of the oldest and prestgious in its field along with the one of La Scala in Milan and San Carlo in Naples. In 1951 Luchino Visconti chose it to film some scenes of one of masterpieces, Bellissima, starring Anna Magnani in the role of the very ordinary and pushy Maddalena Cecconi who takes her daughter for ballet lessons in order to enter the cast at the Cinecittà studios (the film also stars the ballet students of the time and the orchestra of the theatre, directed by Franco Ferrara)

Created with the intention of creating young professionals of the theatres Ballet Corps. The school which is situated in via Ozieri welcomes children and adolescents between the ages of nine and sixteen years. Many well known names of dance and choreography have directed the school such as Ileana Leonidoff, Dimitri Rostov, Teresa and Placida Battaggi from Attilia Radice and Walter Zappolini From Alberto Testa to Elisabetta Terabust.

Among the graduates we can include ètoile and prima ballerinas of the Opera of Rome, as Terabust and Raffaele Paganini to Laura Comi and Mario Marozzi.