Paolo Grassi
Paolo Grassi (30 October 1919 – 14 March 1981) was an Italian theatrical impresario.Grassi was born in Milan, Italy. As a young man, he worked in magazines and discovered a passion for the theater. It led him in 1937 to create a Bertoldissimo (musical work), which he oversaw and directed. He organized the theatre company Ninchi-Dori-Tumiati and founded the avant-garde group Palcoscenico (Stage). Grassi was a Socialist. During the Second World War, he was conscripted into the army but went over to the Italian resistance movement, including working with the socialist newspaper ''Avanti!''. In 1947, with Giorgio Strehler, friend and associate, Grassi founded the Piccolo Teatro di Milano, the first Italian civic theatre. It was later renamed, in his honour, the Teatro Paolo Grassi.
In 1964, he purchased the Teatro San Ferdinando with Strehler, renaming it Teatrale Napoletana. From 1972 to 1977 he was superintendent of the La Scala theatre, while from 1977 to 1980 held the post of president of Italy's state broadcaster RAI. He later became director of the Electa publishing house.
Grassi died in London in 1981 following heart surgery and is buried at the Monumental Cemetery of Milan. The Scuola d'arte drammatica Paolo Grassi ("School of Dramatic Arts Paolo Grassi") in Milan is named in his honour. Provided by Wikipedia
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7by Raffaele Ratta, Elena Verzoni, Paolo Grassi, Monica Niger, Giuseppe ProcopioGet full text
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9by Isabella Testa, Elena Verzoni, Paolo Grassi, Maurizio Colecchia, Filomena Panzone, Giuseppe ProcopioGet full text
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11by Elena Verzoni, Paolo Grassi, Raffaele Ratta, Monica Niger, Filippo De Braud, Riccardo Valdagni, Giuseppe ProcopioGet full text
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15by Paolo Grassi, Ludovic Doucet, Palma Giglione, Viktor Grünwald, Bohuslav Melichar, Luca Galli, Ugo De Giorgi, Roberto Sabbatini, Cinzia Ortega, Matteo Santoni, Aristotelis Bamias, Elena Verzoni, Lisa Derosa, Hana Studentova, Monica Pacifici, Jorgelina Coppa, Vincenzo Mazzaferro, Filippo de Braud, Camillo Porta, Bernard Escudier, Giuseppe ProcopioGet full text
Published 2016-01-01
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