this scanned postcard offers some little windows on the ballet of La Scala's opera house in the mid-20th century.
(mods: if the scan is too large, let me know - i used higher dpi to enlarge the original so each panel could be more easily scrutinzied. feel free to take it down if in any weigh it gums up the works. or tell me to do so.)

This is great! Can anyone identify the productions? That shot on the lower right -- with a mass of girls in tutu and the distant village painted on the backddrop -- is astonishing. The landscape looks like Estremadura or Castille -- or Sicily?