Holocaust survivor and Life Senator
Liliana Segre will, like last year, take President Sergio
Mattarella's place in the royal box at this year's La Scala
premiere Saturday, the highlight of the Milanese social season
and a showcase for Italy's great and good.
Mattarella, 83, has been forced to forego the event because he
will be in Paris for the grand re-opening of Notre-Dame after
the fire that devastated the iconic landmark in April 2019.
Segre, 94, will sit in the box for Verdi's Forza del Destino
conducted by Riccardo Chailly.
She will be flanked by the second highest office of the State,
Senate Speaker Ignazio La Russa, Lombardy Governor Attilio
Fontana, Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala. the deputy speaker of the
Lower House Anna Ascani and Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli.
The President of the Constitutional Court Augusto Antonio
Barbera, who had initially confirmed his presence, will not
after all be in the theatre for the glittering extravaganza.
The high-society event, which takes place on the saint's day of
Milan's patron St Ambrose, is usually met with protests against
the rich by anticapitalists and anarchists.
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