“Il Ballo del Doge is one of the most exclusive parties in the world...
Turn off your cellphones, breathe in the perfume and close your eyes, let yourself go to the best night of your life” (Vanity Fair Italy).

Il Ballo del Doge is known as most famous private masquerade party of the Venice Carnival.
Antonia Sautter is the founder and artistic director of Il Ballo del Doge since 1994.
The Press, the Media and the Guests defined it as the most sumptuous, refined and exclusive masquerade event in the world, and one of the one-hundred things everyone should do at least once in their lifetime.
Guests and celebrities from all over the world, wearing the costumes designed and hand-made by Antonia Sautter in her Atelier, reach the Palace by water, thus immediately emerging themselves in a fantastic world made of luxurious decorations, set designs created specifically for every edition’s theme, seamless artistic spectacles with over a hundred performers, refined cuisine and drinks, music, dances and itinerary entertainment until late in the night.

The XXVIII edition of Il Ballo del Doge will be held on Saturday 13th February 2021

An exciting location for Il Ballo del Doge 2021: Scuola Grande della Misericordia di Venezia

Carnival is real life, or real life is nothing but a Carnival?

An invitation to break free from our comfort zone, going away from what is predictable in the daily life, and wear, with a mask and a costume, a new identity, maybe the one better representing our true self.

Don't Miss out on the most important event during Venice Carnival 2021