(English version followed by the Italian version)
An ambassador of Italian dance through its extraordinary performances around the world, Balletto di Milano (BdM) is regarded as one of the leading artistic companies. It is supported by the Italian Ministry of Culture and collaborates with the most prestigious theatres. The Company has been officially invited to take part in the 7th China International Ballet Season, a major showcase of international ballet currently taking place in Beijing at the Tianqiao Theatre.
Elegance, artistic excellence, and meticulous aesthetic care once again define the Company’s distinctive style. The sets by Marco Pesta and the costumes by Agnese Omodei Salè / Mario Ferrari / Fabrizio Marinello and the choreography by Federico Veratti / Agnese Omodei Salè
All enhance the magic of the production: from an Art Deco–inspired ballroom, the audience is led into an enchanted forest, where lighting and ethereal atmospheres transform the stage into a dream. The journey culminates in a fairy-tale ballroom dedicated to pure divertissement, bursting with elegance and imagination.
On stage are all the principal dancers and soloists of Balletto di Milano, beginning with Alessandro Orlando, one of the Company’s most acclaimed and representative artists, who will portray Drosselmeyer, a pivotal character in the ballet. He will alternate with Francis Morgan, a young English talent newly graduated from the prestigious Elmhurst Ballet School.
Sensitive and refined, and among the leading dancers of Balletto di Milano, Annarita Maestri returns as Clara, while Sinthya Pezzoli makes her debut in the role, Also debuting are Sofia Gironi and Giusy Villarà, both dancers with strong technique and commanding stage presence, cast as the Sugar Plum Fairy In the role of the Prince, Balletto di Milano welcomes to Italy for the first time the twenty-year-old Armenian dancer Pavel Petrosyan, who will alternate with Gianmarco Damiani.
Balletto di Milano’s “The Nutcracker” stands as an unmissable highlight of the holiday season, enchanting audiences of all ages with an elegant and deeply poetic interpretation of Tchaikovsky’s timeless masterpiece.
December 19th- 21th
THE NUTCRACKER at Teatro Lirico Giorgio Gaber
Address: Via Larga 14, 20122 Milan, Italy
https://teatroliricogiorgiogaber.it
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Ambasciatore della danza italiana attraverso le sue straordinarie performance in tutto il mondo, il Balletto di Milano (BdM) è considerato una delle compagnie artistiche più importanti. È sostenuto dal Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e collabora con i teatri più prestigiosi.
La Compagnia è stata ufficialmente invitata a partecipare al 7° China International Ballet Season, importante vetrina del balletto internazionale che si sta svolgendo a Pechino presso il Tianqiao Theatre. Questo invito conferma ancora una volta la rilevanza e la vocazione internazionale del Balletto di Milano, chiamato ad esibirsi su prestigiosi palcoscenici nel mondo accanto a importanti compagnie da ogni continente.Eleganza, qualità artistica e grande cura estetica confermano ancora una volta lo stile della Compagnia. Le scenografie di Marco Pesta amplificano la magia della produzione: dal salone di ispirazione Art Déco, lo spettatore viene guidato in un bosco incantato, dove luci e atmosfere rarefatte trasformano la scena in un vero sogno. Il viaggio culmina in un salone fiabesco dedicato al divertissement, in un’esplosione di eleganza e fantasia.
In scena tutti i primi ballerini e solisti del Balletto di Milano a partire da Alessandro Orlando, tra i danzatori più affermati e rappresentativi della Compagnia, che vestirà i panni di Drosselmeir, figura cardine del balletto. Si alternerà con Francis Morgan, giovane talento inglese neo diplomato alla prestigiosa Elmhurst Ballet School.
Sensibile, raffinata e tra le danzatrici di punta del Balletto di Milano Annarita Maestri, torna come Clara, mentre è al suo debutto Sinthya Pezzoli, già apprezzata come Cenerentola e Micaela in Carmen. Debuttano anche Sofia Gironi e Giusy Villarà, entrambe ballerine dalla tecnica solida e dalla forte presenza scenica, scelte per il ruolo della Fata Confetto. Per il ruolo del Principe il Balletto di Milano accoglie per la prima volta in Italia il ventenne armeno Pavel Petrosyan che si alternerà con Gianmarco Damiani.
“Lo Schiaccianoci” del Balletto di Milano si presenta come un appuntamento imperdibile delle festività natalizie, capace di incantare il pubblico di ogni età grazie a una visione elegante e profondamente poetica del grande classico di Čajkovskij.
LO SCHIACCIANOCI
Ideazione: Carlo Pesta
Coreografia: Federico Veratti/Agnese Omodei Salè
Scenografia: Marco Pesta
Costumi di Agnese Omodei Salè / Mario Ferrari / Fabrizio Marinello
Teatro Lirico Giorgio Gaber
Indirizzo: Via Larga, 14, 20122 Milano MI
https://teatroliricogiorgiogaber.it
Balletto di Milano
Info: biglietteria@ballettodimilano.com
https://ballettodimilano.com
Lafeuilles’s Cinderella is the dazzling new take on Charles Perrault’s beloved fairy talw and draws inspiration from Serge Prokofiev’s classic Cinderella ballet with a wild mix of dance, humor, and environmental awareness.
The concept is simple yet powerful: transforming plastic waste and discarded materials into sets, costumes, and bodies in motion. A new Cinderella’s world with recycled plastic and upcycled materials used for costumes and scenery. A big round of applause for the amazing costumes by 
Lafeuille builds a poetic, tongue-in-cheek choreography where transformation becomes a playful dance of rebirth and sustainability. To the notes of Prokofiev, six male dancers perform en travesti, blending theatre, dance, and humor in a show that’s both hilarious and deeply touching
I danzatori, tutti formati tra le migliori scuole di Francia e Spagna, sono artisti “totali”: attori, acrobati, mimi e cantanti, capaci di passare con naturalezza dal balletto classico alla danza contemporanea, dal cabaret al teatro d’immagini
Lafeuille costruisce una coreografia poetica e ironica in cui la metamorfosi — tema centrale della fiaba — si trasforma in un gioco danzato di rinascita e sostenibilità.Sulle note del balletto di Prokofiev, sei interpreti – Antoine Audras, Florent Chevalier, Emmanuel Dobby, Mohammed Kouadri, Stéphane Vitrano e Philippe Mesia – danno vita a una coloratissima discarica immaginaria, dove tutto cambia forma e significato.
Civita
Rossano
Santa Severina
The Nuova Balera Pizzigoni is a ballroom where emotions, dances, songs and loves intertwine, all in a magic space from the 40s that manages to create a refuge of dreams and passions. The story takes place during the great snowfall in Milan in 1985, the music is very varied from the intimate song “Non arrossire” by Giorgio Gaber to the “Tango della gelosia ” to “Tutti i frutti” by Little Richard.
On stage we find the actors Lucia Vasini, that recalls the evocative moments of this historic place. Enrico Ballardini, Sara Bertelà’, Alessandro Sampaoli, Emilia Scatigno. Four energetic dancers: Michelle Atoe, Arianna Cunsolo, Mattia Molini, Christian Pellino. The trio of musicians: Alessandro Centolanza, Daniele Di Marco), Gianmarco Straniero
Teatro Menotti, Milan.
Alfred Nakache was a French swimmer of Jewish origin, holder of a world record. In Auschwitz he was prisoner number 172,763. Despite his imprisonment and unheard of privations, he never stopped training by diving into the freezing water of a reservoir. His strength, his unshakeable determination, allowed him to go through the horror of the camp and save himself. When he returned to compete, he achieved a new record and took part in the London Olympics. 
Viktor Frankl, an Austrian psychiatrist, was also interned in Auschwitz. Immediately after the liberation, he wrote a book about his experience and about those who, just like Nakache, managed to overcome that terrible ordeal. The show aims to bring back these two extraordinary figures who communicate a message of hope to all of us: living is certainly also suffering, but seeking a meaning to this suffering by looking towards the future with a purpose is the way to face the hardest challenges that life presents us. In this way, it is possible to finally discover the very meaning of existence.
The scene around him becomes essential, composed mainly of lines of lights designed by Marco Laudando and which become the symbol of lanes in a swimming pool, of rails that transport souls full of pain to finally rise to perspective escapes in a tension towards the unknown, the absolute, the search for a spirituality more necessary than ever in an attempt to survive the brutality of the concentration camp. 
The scene is then enriched by images filmed by Marco Renda that immerse the spectator in abstract yet material and poetic spaces, in an essential black and white, non-places that are mirrors of the soul. Again, the show makes use of the original music by Francesco Bova that builds sound carpets rich in throbs and references, that envelop and sometimes disorientate the spectators, but always with the intent to involve and excite.
Because, if the story of an Auschwitz inmate inevitably brings us back to the many testimonies heard up to now, it is true that that of the swimmer Nakache stands out from these to become especially the emblem of a resistance carried forward and achieved with courage and stubbornness. A figure who, to fully emerge, however, needs his “double” – the scholar Frankl, – who analyses and theorises what the instinctive Alfred instinctively puts into action. In this vision Alfred and Viktor are each other’s mirror, they are two sides of the same coin and they merge in an experience capable of giving spectators the ultimate meaning of existence.
Un vero concerto-show, che vede 20 musicisti, coristi e solisti impegnati a animare il palco non solo con la musica , ma anche con movimenti coreografici e inaspettati cambi di costume (divertentissimi i cappeli ricorno dei Piarti dei Caraibi) ambientati con le immagini più rilevanti dei film da cui le colnne sonore sono state tratte.
Hans Zimmer è uno dei musicisti più influente di Hollywood al pari di Ennio Morricone e John Williams. Ha musicato grandi film. ha vinto 2 Oscar, 4 Golden Globes, 4 Grammy, 1 Tony Award e decine di altri premi. Hans Zimmer ha lavorato in circa 150 pellicole diverse e in oltre 500 progetti complessivi che hanno prodotto incassi al botteghino per circa 28 miliardi di dollari.
«In tutto quello che ho fatto c’è sempre qualcosa che mi piacerebbe modificare – ha dichiarato in un’intervista a Vanity Fair – però sto cercando la grande melodia che non ho ancora scritto: so che è da qualche parte là fuori e questa convinzione è ciò che mi spinge ad alzarmi dal letto ogni mattina»
by Cesare Zucca
Alice’s new tour “Master Songs” features some of her most cherished and significant songs from her musical production, increasingly oriented towards the search for existential, cultural, spiritual and poetic content. In addition to her own compositions, she pays particular attention to the singer-songwriter genre, with songs by Battiato, De André, Guccini, De Gregori, Dalla, Fossati, Camisasca and Di Martino, which she interprets with the desire to capture and share their essence. 
What happens to an actor when no agent or producer wants him?
Enzo said that “with Paolo there is a special understanding, and it is a pleasure to share the stage in a show that speaks of dreams and reality with great lightness and intensity of thought.”
Teatro Menotti , Milan hosted the debut of NoGravity Company’s FELLINI DREAM directed by Emiliano Pellisari, who also designed scene, costume and lighting and Mariana/P, music producer and principal dancer, 
.The show takies the audience on a visionary journey where actors and dancers moved in a game between verticality and lightness, Only by giving in to gravity, the protagonist achieves peace and elevation, reflecting herself in the mirror like a light figure in the sky.
The Company is hosting the talented dancers Francesco Saverio Cifaldi, Giada Inserra, Leila Ghiabbi, Marianna Caratelli, Baolo Tiber while choreographer Emiliano Pellisari and Mariana P designed a suggestive, unreal dance with creating images and figures through the use of bodies as human geometric figures, adopting new choreographic techniques that the No Gravity has developed and performed over the years
At TEATRO MENOTTI till 01
Alessandro Borghese is an eclectic and innovative chef, undoubtedly one of the most authoritative and influential figures in the Italian gastronomic scene, after graduating from the American Overseas School in Rome, he embarked on cruise ships for three years. His culinary experiences continued in restaurants in San Francisco, New York, London, Paris, 
Copenhagen, Rome, Milan and Venice, while his gastronomic “investigations” continue up and down Italy in the Italian TV show “Alessandro Borghese 4 Restaurants” written, produced and hosted by Alessandro.
With “Alessandro Borghese 4 Restaurants” you visited many places, which one remained in your heart?
Everywhere the black van with the program’s logo has become a must for selfies… when it is parked or stopped at the traffic light, it becomes the protagonist and photos next to the door go crazy on social media. I live with immense pleasure the reality of those places and the daily life of the inhabitants I meet, they are all in my heart 
How would you describe your cuisine?
What is “Your” favorite dish? 
Is “TV cooking” a current trend? 
When does food become “glamorous”?
Food has captured the attention of television networks and the Internet because cooking is the soul of Italy and the engine of important commercial activities. It is no coincidence that our raw materials are unique and exceptional. Then today we are lucky to have immediate means of communication: anyone through television and the internet can follow the procedures and advice on a dish to prepare. 
I am very happy to have been a precursor of this new vision of food: I had an idea of the success of cooking on television ever since it was unusual to become a testimonial for a gastronomic product. I am also proud to have cleared the union of cooking with other similar universes, such as music and art. Before, it was unthinkable to describe dishes with rock songs or to talk in an interview like this about possible combinations between the two realities. 
Fashions change, even in food. What dish you think will always be in vogue. Creativity. It is not a tangible dish, but I like it because it is an absolutely free concept, without end. 
Do you have a dream in the drawer? 
Young professionals perform and tell their stories in front of the public, revealing themselves. The evenings are presented by Klaudia Pepa (choreographer and dancer, in the cast of Open by Daniel Ezralow) and Garrison Rochelle (famous choreographer and this year one of the protagonists of Fame, the musical) 
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