presents Salome by Richard Strauss.

Ilaria Grippaudo is a researcher at the University of Palermo. In 2010, she received her PhD in musicology from the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. She teaches History of Music in the Humanities degree course and was a research fellow at the University of Palermo (2013-2017). Her research interests cover a broad spectrum of topics ranging from musical life in Sicily to the history of opera and the study of music in women’s monasteries. She has published numerous articles, both in Italian and in other languages, in international scientific journals. In 2014, she was the winner of the biennial “Pier Luigi Gaiatto” Prize instituted by the Levi Foundation in Venice, which later merged into the monograph published by Olschki in 2022, Musica e devozione nella ‘Città Felicissima’. Ordini religiosi e pratiche sonore a Palermo tra Cinque e Seicento.

presents Giselle by Adolphe-Charles Adam.

Vito Lentini is a lecturer in Philosophy and Human Sciences and teaches Pedagogy and History of Dance at the Accademia Teatro alla Scala. He is a research fellow at the University of Turin and participates in a research project of the Department of Cultural and Environmental Heritage of the University of Milan studying, in collaboration with Prof. Alberto Bentoglio, the archive of Luciana Novaro kept at the APICE Functional Centre. Interested in the developments of choreographic art between the 19th and 20th centuries, he has devoted his attention to research on choreography from across the Channel and the Nureyev repertoire. He is an essayist, and he also lectures and writes about dance and ballet in the theatre programmes of various Italian and foreign theatres, including La Scala in Milan, the Teatro Regio in Turin, the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, the Teatro Filarmonico and the Arena in Verona, the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm and the National Theatre in Prague. A journalist, he has been editor-in-chief of the magazine Sipario for twelve years and writes about dance in the magazine La Scala and in the culture pages of the online editorial office of Il Sole 24 Ore.