HISTORY OF THE EVENT
The debutante Ball is a worldly event that has its roots in the Ancien Régime of the eighteenth century, when the heirs of the most prominent aristocretic families performed in public, because they had reached marriageble age, and therefore officially made their entrance in the beautiful world of the aristocracy.
Born in 1700, it becomes such a consolidated tradition in Paris, at the Hotel de Crillon, that it was interrupted only in 1789, in the occasion of the French revolution. It continued in Vienna, also in 1814 in the occasion of the Congress of Vienna; and from 1877 at the behest of Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria, the Opernball was hosted in the Vienna Opera House.
In Italy it has been held since 1787, at the Nuziatella military School in Naples.