By Silvia Poletti On February 29, 2020, when I entered the beautiful Piccinni Theatre in the port city of Bari, I did not imagine it would be the last time I would be an audience member for a long while. That evening was a feast. The theatre had opened just two months earlier after eight
By Silvia Poletti Wayne McGregor’s full-evening Woolf Works, created for the Royal Ballet in 2015, arrived last April to La Scala’s stage thanks to Alessandra Ferri, whom McGregor cast as the lead in the original production. On that occasion, Ferri returned to the stage after a leave of more than seven years and, at 52,