{"id":220214,"date":"2025-10-04T13:01:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T17:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/?page_id=220214"},"modified":"2025-10-13T00:43:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T04:43:21","slug":"mia-grizzutis-internship-in-a-musical-about-greek-myths-in-sicily-summer-2025","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/opportunities-for-students\/reawakening-gods-international-collaboration\/risveglio\/mia-grizzutis-internship-in-a-musical-about-greek-myths-in-sicily-summer-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Mia Grizzuti’s Internship in a Musical about Greek Myths in Sicily (Summer 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The image of Mia Grizzuti\u2019s smiling face covered by white make-up and marked by tears sums up her two-month experience as a summer intern at the Savatteri musical theater company in Italy. Her stage attire and the gold-colored columns of the 5th-century BCE doric Temple of Concordia behind her after the first show of Il Risveglio degli Dei\/The Reawakening of the Gods<\/em> reflect the history and art that enveloped Mia during her stay in Agrigento, Sicily, while rehearsing and performing for a unique modern musical about ancient Greek mythology. Her tears speak of the emotional impact this internship has had on her: \u201cThis has been a truly transformative experience as a musical theater student in terms of growth in the performing arts, but also as a person living abroad for the first time, in the country my ancestors came from, and in a town with a majestic archeological heritage that moved me.\u201d <\/span><\/p><\/div><\/span><\/p><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n

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Mia performing at the Temple of Concordia, Agrigento<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Mia Grizzuti, undergraduate student in the Musical Theatre at ÌÇÐÄvlog, was one of the winners of a paid international internship that took her to the Southern tip of Italy — the World Heritage site of The Valley of the Temples in Agrigento \u2013 to perform in a musical presented in July and August 2025 for several days at dawn (see recap<\/a>). She also performed in Scopri il teatro!<\/em> and Cavalleria Rusticana<\/em>, the latter presented at the Teatro Classico of Taormina.<\/p>\n

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Mia performs in Scopri il teatro, an interactive show about the history of the local theater entitled to Noble-Prize-winning writer Luigi Pirandello, originally from Agrigento (Photo by Colin Keys)\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n