BENTOGLIO ALBERTO

Alberto Bentoglio is a full professor in Disciplines of the performance at the University of Milan, Department of Cultural and Environmental Heritage, where he teaches History of Theater and Performing Arts and coordinates the degree course in Cultural Heritage Sciences. He studied theatrical and musical organization in Italy from the sixteenth century to today, with particular attention to the performance in the nineteenth century (publishing among other things the unpublished writings and Dictionaries of the actor Antonio Colomberti - Bulzoni, 2004 and 2009), the artistic path by Giorgio Strehler (with the volume Invito al teatro by Giorgio Strehler - Mursia, 2002 and the catalog of the exhibition Giorgio Strehler: A Man for Milan, a Theater for Europe) and the figure of Paolo Grassi (with a large essay in the volume Paolo Grassi, a biography between theater, culture and society - Skira, 2011). He edited the publication of the writings of Carlo Fontana for the "Avanti" (1969-1976) (Mimesis, 2013) and the volume Milan, 1948: a conference for the theater (Le Lettere, 2013). He is the author of the volumes Milan, city of the show. Critical contributions to the history of the Piccolo Teatro and Teatro alla Scala (Unicopli, 2014) and Il Teatro dell'Elfo (1973-2013). Forty years of contemporary art theater (Mimesis, 2017, second edition). (2002 - 2020)