Opera house as wealthy patrons and it continues to have a large number of working opera houses such as Teatro Massimo in Palermo (the biggest in Italy), Teatro di San Carlo in Naples (the world's oldest working opera house) and Teatro La Scala in Milan. In contrast, there was no opera house in London when Henry Purcell was composing and the first opera house in Germany was built in Hamburg in 1678. In the 17th and 18th centuries, opera houses were often financed by rulers, nobles, and wealthy people who used patronage of the arts to endorse their political ambition and social
La Scala Theatre Ballet - Marco Agostino - Giuseppe Conte - Massimo Dalla Mora - Christian Fagetti - Federico Fresi - Daniele Lucchetti - Salvatore Perdichizzi - Andrea Piermattei - Andrea Pujatti - Antonio Ruggiero - Fabio Saglibene - Luigi Saruggia - Gianluca Schiavoni - Danilo Tapiletti - Massimiliano Volpini - Andrea Volpintesta Emilie Fouilloux - Alessia Passaro - Sofia Rosolini - Claudio Coviello - Antonio De Rosa - Dario Elia - Massimo Garon - Matteo Gavazzi - Andreas Lochmann - Valerio Lunadei - Marco Messina - Mattia Vitelli La Scala Theatre Ballet The La Scala Theatre Ballet () is the resident classical ballet