In the royal box at the premiere of Don Carlo, which opens the opera season of La Scala, among others will be the President of the Senate Ignazio La Russa, the Mayor of Milan Giuseppe Sala, who is President of the Theater, and for the first time the Senator for life Liliana Segre. Exactly in the front row of the royal box will be La Russa’s wife, the President of the Senate, next to him Federica Belli Paci and then his mother Liliana Segre, as well as the mayor Sala and his partner Chiara Bazzoli.
It is the first time for life senator Liliana Segre, who is a loyal visitor to La Scala but has never been a guest at the central box of Sant’Ambrogio. This confirmation concludes a day in which various hypotheses about the senator’s presence were countered with the hypothesis that she, the mayor and La Russa could all be in the audience.
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CGIL and ANPI, we will not greet with La Russa at the premiere
The representatives of the CGIL and the Anpi section of the Teatro alla Scala will not participate this year in the welcome that the institutional offices, this year led by Senate President Ignazio La Russa, usually give during the break of the Prima della Scala Artists and a workers’ representation.
In a statement, RSA and RLS CGIL and ANPI announced that they will “not participate in any proposed institutional welcoming ceremony.” to those who have never condemned fascismits colonial wars, alliance and subjugation to Nazism, which led to racial laws and much grief and misery for the Italian people.”
“We learned with regret that the President of the Republic will not be able to attend the opening of the Scala season this year,” they added. “As every year, we would have liked to bring the greetings of all the theater employees to the highest State Office” “The Teatro alla Scala – they concluded – represents a democratic and civil place, and our union and the Anpi section of the theater can not pay tribute to those who are not yet fighting these policies.”
Guests at the premiere include Patti Smith and Liliana Segre
World of politics, entertainment, art and finance: As always, the premiere at La Scala in Milan is a moment where different worlds come together. And so it is again this year with a range of guests ranging from Patti Smith to life senator Liliana Segre, from Senate President Ignazio La Russa to Paris Opéra director Alexandre Neef. This year, for Don Carlo, directed by Riccardo Chailly, Head of State Sergio Mattarella will not be present, but he has already confirmed his presence for next year, namely Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, but La Russa and Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, Minister of Culture Gennaro Sangiuliano, Minister of Reform Maria Elisabetta Casellati and the Undersecretaries for Culture Gianmarco Mazzi and Vittorio Sgarbi.
And also Chief of Staff Giuseppe Cavo Dragone. The mayor Giuseppe Sala, who is president of the theater, and the president of the region Attilio Fontana will do the honors. Claudio Sgaraglia, newly appointed prefect of Milan, will make his debut, while the presence of life senator Mario Monti is confirmed.
Raina Kabaivanska will return to La Scala, the unforgettable protagonist of Don Carlo in the role of Elisabetta in 1964 with Gabriele Santini and in 1969 with Claudio Abbado, Ornella Vanoni is also expected, as are the architects Stefano Boeri and Mario Botta, who have signed the extension of the Piermarini and the new tower in Via Verdi, as well as the artist Francesco Vezzoli, the artistic director of the Maxxi in Rome Francesco Stocchi, the actress Andrea Jonasson, widow of Giorgio Strehler, the CEO of Rai Roberto Sergio, the former Scala artistic director Carlo Fontana, who has just published his autobiography “It will be the adventure, a life for the theater”, and Alexander Pereira, as well as theater leaders such as the Brussels Monnaie Peter de Caluwe, the artistic director of Real Madrid Joan Matabosch, the superintendents are, among others Accademia di Santa Cecilia Michele dall’Ongaro and the Regio di Torino Francesco Giambrone.
And of course the newly appointed La Scala étoiles Roberto Bolle and Nicoletta Manni, together with her husband Timofej Adrijashenko, also principal dancers of the Scala such as Antonella Albano, Martina Arduino, Alice Mariani, Virna Toppi, Marco Agostino. Nicola Del Freo and Antonino Sutera.
Director Pedro Almodovar and actor Louis Garrel will also be at the Scala premiere tomorrow. This was anticipated by the fashion house Giorgio Armani, which will also dress the main dancers Nicoletta Manni and Timofej Andrijashenko, who got married in Salento last summer, for tomorrow evening. Chiara Bazoli, partner of Mayor Beppe Salza, Giovanna Salza, wife of Corrado Passera, and Maria Porro, president of the furniture fair, also chose to wear a creation by Giorgio Armani. Scala dancers Claudio Coviello, Alice Mariani, Martina Arduino and Marco Agostino will also be dressed in Armani.
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