Paolo Crepet at Auditorium Conciliazione: Riprendersi l’anima, April 27, 2027

Paolo Crepet at Auditorium Conciliazione: the psychiatrist brings Riprendersi l'anima (Taking Back the Soul) to Auditorium Conciliazione in Rome, at Via della Conciliazione 4 (00193 Rome), on Tuesday, April 27, 2027. You reach the hall by Metro A, Ottaviano or Lepanto stop, and then on foot through Borgo or Prati in a quarter of an hour, and the nearest surface stop is Traspontina, about 60 meters from the entrance. The start time and prices are published on the hall's official website and by the authorized seller named by the organizers. Tickets are sold from the show's page on the official Auditorium Conciliazione website, whose Tickets button leads to the authorized presale network.

Language: performed in Italian. No English version or English surtitles are announced.

A psychiatrist on the stage of a hall with more than 1,700 seats, half a kilometer from St. Peter's, talking about happiness, lukewarmness and the soul. Put that way it sounds like a lecture, but anyone who has seen Crepet live knows it's something else: a monologue where clinical knowledge mixes with personal memories and stories gathered over 40 years of practice. Our verdict: it's one of the few spoken-word evenings that can hold a big hall, and the audience that chooses it leaves arguing, which is rare. The evening is in Italian.

Paolo Crepet at Auditorium Conciliazione: date, tickets, hall

Paolo Crepet's Riprendersi l'anima is scheduled at Auditorium Conciliazione on Tuesday, April 27, 2027, for a single date, in the Theater category of the hall's 2026/2027 season.

One night only

The Auditorium's official page lists a single date, April 27. No other Rome dates have been announced: if you want to be there, plan ahead, because single dates in Rome's big halls sell out the central orchestra seats first.

The time

Check the start time on the show page and on your ticket. At Auditorium Conciliazione the big-hall rule applies: doors open before the start, and with more than a thousand people to seat, be on Via della Conciliazione at least half an hour early.

Where to buy tickets

The show page on the Auditorium Conciliazione website has a Tickets button leading to purchase on the network authorized by the organizers. That's the way to go: for a single date, secondary sellers with inflated prices appear early, and a ticket bought outside official channels comes with no guarantees.

Prices

Prices by section are published by the authorized seller. In a hall this size the difference between orchestra and gallery is significant: for a spoken monologue, where seeing the speaker's face and gestures matters, closeness to the stage counts more than anything else.

Riprendersi l'anima: what the evening is about

Riprendersi l'anima brings to the stage Paolo Crepet's book of the same name, which the Auditorium Conciliazione presentation describes as his most important: an antidote to conformity, to the risks of technocracy and to the hidden and open violence of our time.

The starting question

The starting point is a question the official presentation puts up front: asking ourselves if we are happy, if we have been or if we hope to be. It may seem a naive exercise, the text admits, but it's the only question that truly makes complete sense. The whole evening revolves around this question, without claiming to close it with a recipe.

The models: Augustine, Montaigne, Pascal, Leopardi

The presentation places the book in a specific family, that of texts that escape the classifications of critics and publishers and speak directly to readers: Saint Augustine's Confessions, Montaigne's Essays, Pascal's Pensées, Leopardi's Zibaldone. It's an ambitious comparison, stated without false modesty, and it says a lot about the evening's tone: more moral essay than psychology manual.

The bazaar of memory

Crepet, according to the same presentation, rummages through his own soul and memory as if through a bazaar, to find the universal hidden behind every particular. Reflections, personal memories and stories alternate. Two are previewed: that of the picture framer who couldn't bring himself to work on Picasso's Guernica, and that of Mike, a motorcyclist whose love was able to heal a little girl.

Hot, cold and lukewarm

At the heart of the talk is a simple, uncomfortable idea. Shadow and light, music and silence, stillness and desire are essential moments of life, and both hot and cold are necessary. Lukewarmness, instead, is a danger: an anesthesia that dulls the senses and emotions. The title comes from here, from the call to reject apathy, discouragement and the temptation to give in to those who want us switched off.

Against those who want to crush us

The presentation also names the enemies: war, control, the temptation to give up the fire that burns in each of us. Crepet reminds himself, and those who choose to make the journey with him, what is worth living for. It's a talk with a civic edge as well as an intimate one, and in a hall a few steps from the Vatican it takes on a particular resonance.

Who Paolo Crepet is: biography

Paolo Crepet, born in Turin on September 17, 1951, is a psychiatrist, sociologist, essayist and commentator. With degrees in medicine from Padua and in sociology from Urbino, and a spiritual pupil of Franco Basaglia, he has for decades been one of the most listened-to, and most debated, voices in the Italian discussion of young people, family and education.

Origins and Padua

He was born in Turin to a Venetian family of French origin and grew up in Padua, which he considers his adopted city. His father, Massimo Crepet, was vice-rector of the University of Padua and a professor of occupational medicine there, and his grandfather was the painter Angelo Maria Crepet. A family of doctors and artists: the two souls meet again, decades later, in his books, where clinical work sits alongside painting, music and literature.

Training

He graduated in medicine and surgery from the University of Padua in 1976, then in sociology from the University of Urbino in 1980. In 1985 he completed his specialization in psychiatry at the Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Padua. As a young man he met Franco Basaglia and drew close to his anti-psychiatry positions: the encounter that shaped the whole first part of his career.

Arezzo, India, Europe, the Americas

He worked at the psychiatric hospital in Arezzo, then left Italy: three years in India, in Chandigarh, then Denmark, the United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland and the Czech Republic. He taught in Toronto, in Rio de Janeiro and at Harvard's Center for European Studies. He finally returned to Italy to follow Basaglia in Rome. It's an international path few Italian psychiatrists of his generation can claim, and it explains the breadth of his books.

Scholar of services and distress

His early bibliography is that of a researcher. In 1981 he co-wrote, with Maria Grazia Giannichedda, an inventory of a psychiatry in transition, in 1982 he edited a volume on psychiatry without asylums, on the critical epidemiology of the reform, and published with Loris Prosperi a study on overcoming the Arezzo asylum. In 1987 came a book on psychiatric services in a metropolitan setting, written with Vito Mirizio and published in Rome. Studies on suicide, on the illnesses of unemployment and on measuring psychological distress followed, along with a 1993 volume on young people and suicide.

Essayist of the emotions

From the 1990s Crepet became a writer for a wide readership. His journey into youth crime came out with Feltrinelli in 1995. With Einaudi he published, between 2001 and 2013, a run of books on our inability to listen to young people, on children who no longer grow up, on love, on where emotions live (written with architect Mario Botta in 2007), on the joy of educating, on the crisis of the family, on lost authority, on friendship and on learning to be happy.

The Mondadori years

Since 2017 his books have come out mostly with Mondadori: on courage, on digital seduction, on passion and freedom in 2019, on vulnerability in 2020, on life after the storm in 2021, on lessons in dreaming in 2022, two more in 2023 and Mordere il cielo in 2024. In parallel, with Einaudi, a book on the fragility of goodness in 2021. It's an almost yearly output that has made his titles a fixture in bookstores and in theaters.

The storyteller

Alongside the essays there's fiction: memoirs of absences in 1997, stories of matricide written with Giancarlo De Cataldo in 1998, and further books of stories in 1999, 2002, 2004, 2008 and 2015, the last about a woman who stopped eating. For Crepet, the story is a clinical tool: the single case that sheds light on the rule.

Awards and roles

In 2013 he chaired the literary jury of the Premio Campiello. In 2015 he received the La Tore Isola d'Elba literary prize for his career, previously awarded to Andrea Camilleri, Andrea Vitali and Philippe Daverio, among others. Today he lives between Padua and Civita di Bagnoregio.

A divisive voice

Crepet is a frequent TV guest, popularizer and commentator. His positions on education, on today's parents, whom he considers too permissive and overprotective, and on the music and habits of people in their twenties have sparked controversy more than once, with critical replies even from colleagues such as Massimo Recalcati. Those who go to hear him know it: he's a speaker who doesn't seek approval, and that's exactly why he holds the hall.

How Paolo Crepet speaks on stage

Paolo Crepet's style in the theater is that of a monologue both learned and conversational: quotations, clinical cases told like short stories, family memories, questions put straight to the audience.

The case that becomes a story

His strength is telling the single case. The picture framer in front of Guernica, Mike the motorcyclist: small stories that are worth a thesis. If you expect an academic lecture you'll be surprised, and if you expect a comedian you'll be just as surprised.

The audience

Generations mix in the hall: parents who read his book on children who no longer grow up, teachers, psychologists, students, couples. A date like this works as an occasion for family discussion: you leave with a question in your pocket, and often with a book to buy.

The art of the pause

Anyone who has heard him live recognizes his measure: short sentences, long pauses, a dry irony that often arrives at the end of the argument. In a big hall it's a technique that works, because it forces the audience into silence.

Auditorium Conciliazione, the hall for Riprendersi l'anima

Auditorium Conciliazione, opened in 1950, is at number 4 Via della Conciliazione, in the Borgo district, and its Sala Grande has 1,756 seats: it's one of the largest houses in central Rome for spoken-word shows.

Sala Grande

The venue describes it as completely renovated and claims flawless acoustics. The walls are lined with carved wooden panels that break up the surfaces and spread the sound: for a single voice, with no music to support it, that's the decisive condition.

A hall for every language

In the venue's own account the Auditorium is a place of culture that has opened over the years to dance, music, visual arts, film and conferences. In Crepet's season it hosts singer-songwriters, magic, musicals, Chinese dance and comedians. It's not an intimidating hall, and the audience for an evening of reflection finds the right atmosphere there.

The facade

The building is in pale stone, aligned with the other facades of Via della Conciliazione. On top is a sculptural group with two winged figures flanking a coat of arms and, below, a Latin inscription in capitals. Almost nobody looks at it, because eyes run toward the dome at the end of the street.

The spaces next to the hall

Besides Sala Grande, the venue includes the Buvette, with about 20 seats for private meetings, the Chorus Cafè, an in-house bar-restaurant, and an art gallery, Visionarea Art Space, devoted to photography and installations. For an evening built on emotions and images, from Picasso's Guernica on down, having a gallery in the same building is a welcome coincidence.

How to get to Auditorium Conciliazione for Paolo Crepet

For Auditorium Conciliazione the venue recommends Metro A, getting off at Ottaviano or Lepanto: from Ottaviano to the entrance at Via della Conciliazione 4 it's a quarter of an hour on foot, on the flat, through Borgo.

Metro A, Ottaviano

From Ottaviano station, on Viale Giulio Cesare, head down toward Piazza del Risorgimento, follow the Vatican walls and enter Borgo from Borgo Pio or Via di Porta Angelica. There are Metro C construction sites around the station: pedestrian routes may change, so follow the temporary signs.

Metro A, Lepanto

From Lepanto the walk is about a kilometer through Prati: Piazza Cavour with the Palace of Justice, Piazza Adriana behind Castel Sant'Angelo, and finally Via della Conciliazione. It's the route to choose if you want to have dinner on the way.

Bus and tram

The nearest surface stop is Traspontina, about 60 meters from the entrance. The tram reaches Ottaviano, on Via Barletta, next to the metro. In the evening routes and frequencies change: check lines on the day on the Rome transit company's journey planner.

By car and parking

The center is protected by limited-traffic gates, and the last stretch toward the hall goes through Piazza Adriana. The venue lists four paid parking options: Piazza Cavour, about 9 minutes on foot, Piazza Adriana, about 6, the Terminal Vaticano at Via Urbano VIII 16, about 5, and the Parking Gran Melia at Via del Gianicolo 2, about 8. On a Tuesday evening traffic is lighter than on weekends, but Piazza Adriana is still the first to fill up.

From Termini and the airports

From Termini take Metro A toward Battistini to Ottaviano. From Fiumicino the venue suggests the Leonardo Express train to Termini, about half an hour, and then the same metro.

Where to sit for Riprendersi l'anima

For Riprendersi l'anima the best seats are in the central part of the orchestra: in a monologue with no set and no music, distance from the stage is the variable that most changes the quality of the evening.

The orchestra

The center rows let you catch the gaze and gestures, which in Crepet count as much as the words. If you take notes, and at these evenings many people do, choose an aisle seat so you don't disturb anyone.

The far sections

In a hall of 1,756 seats the last rows really are far. The acoustics carry the voice everywhere, but the face is lost. If your budget allows, move up a section.

A curious fact about Paolo Crepet at Auditorium Conciliazione, April 27, 2027

The best curious fact concerns his family. Paolo Crepet is the grandson of a painter, Angelo Maria Crepet, and the son of an occupational physician who was vice-rector in Padua. In Riprendersi l'anima, one of the stories previewed by the official presentation is that of a picture framer who couldn't bring himself to work on Picasso's Guernica: a story that brings together art and craft, painting and manual labor. Anyone who knows the author's origins sees in that tale a piece of indirect autobiography, the doctor and the painter meeting in front of the same painting.

The second curious fact is geographic. Crepet lives between Padua and Civita di Bagnoregio, in Lazio: for the Rome audience this date is almost a neighborly visit, an author playing at home while coming from afar.

The third concerns his bond with Rome. Crepet's international path, from India to Canada to Brazil, ended with his return to Italy to follow Franco Basaglia to Rome itself. And one of his first books, on psychiatric services in a metropolitan setting, written with Vito Mirizio, was published in Rome in 1987. For him the city was a workplace before it was an audience.

Something nobody tells you about Paolo Crepet at Auditorium Conciliazione, April 27, 2027

What nobody says is that April 27, 2027 is a Tuesday, two days after April 25 and a few days before May 1. In those weeks Rome is full of tourists, and Borgo, right by the Vatican, more than any other district. Book dinner before the evening, and for the trip home it helps to know that Metro A, after 23:00 on a weekday, is less crowded but still running.

The second thing is that you don't go to a Crepet evening alone, or at least you shouldn't. It's a show you discuss afterward: the idea of lukewarmness as anesthesia, happiness as the only sensible question, the risk of technocracy. A couple of parents, two friends, a teacher with a colleague: the evening's value doubles if there's someone to argue with about it over dinner.

The third is practical. Many arrive at the last minute, after work, and the line to get in grows in the final 10 minutes. Show up half an hour early: in a hall this size, the time to settle in calmly is part of listening.

My tip for Paolo Crepet at Auditorium Conciliazione, April 27, 2027

Arrive on foot from the Tiber. Get off at Lepanto, cross Prati to Piazza Cavour, go around Castel Sant'Angelo and turn onto Via della Conciliazione from Piazza Pia, with the dome of St. Peter's ahead. In late April, at sunset, the light on the travertine is the best of the year. 20 minutes' walk, and you reach the hall already in a listening mood.

Second tip: read something by Crepet beforehand, even a few pages. It doesn't have to be Riprendersi l'anima: any title from his long bibliography will do. Recognizing his way of reasoning helps you follow the jumps in the monologue, from memories to quotations, and catch the callbacks. If your Italian is limited, keep in mind this is a spoken-word evening in Italian.

Third: keep your phone off and in your pocket. That's also one of the evening's themes, digital seduction and the anesthesia of emotions, and Crepet wrote an entire book about it. Spending two hours without a screen, for once, is the most consistent way to honor the show.

Another well-known fact, yet one rarely mentioned

It's well known that Auditorium Conciliazione faces the street leading to St. Peter's. Less often remembered is that, alongside comedians and singers, the same hall has for years hosted film premieres, festivals and institutional events: the world premiere of Mission: Impossible, Dead Reckoning Part One in 2023, the 21st edition of Alice nella Città, within the Rome Film Fest, from October 18 to 29 of the same year, and the national conference on birth rates, the Stati Generali della Natalità, for the third year running in 2023.

That last fact deserves attention. A hall that has hosted three editions of the national debate on birth rates and family now welcomes a psychiatrist who has written a whole library on family, children and education. The theme returns to the same audience in another voice, less institutional and more uncomfortable.

The second rarely mentioned fact concerns the author. Everyone knows Crepet as a TV face, but few remember that he started out as a researcher on psychiatric services after the reform, with technical books on epidemiology and on closing the asylums. Today's popularizer comes from there, and the solidity of his writing comes from that fieldwork.

The right photo to take at Paolo Crepet at Auditorium Conciliazione, April 27, 2027

The right photo is taken on Via della Conciliazione, in front of the Auditorium entrance, with the dome of St. Peter's in the background. No other theater in Rome offers this frame: the name on the marquee in the foreground and, at the end of the street, the lit basilica. In late April, around 20:00, the sky still holds a thread of light and the dome stands out well even with a phone.

The second is taken from Ponte Sant'Angelo, with Castel Sant'Angelo lit up and the angel statues against the dark sky, five minutes' walk from the hall. It's the image that tells Rome by night better than any postcard.

The third, for detail lovers, is the crown of the Auditorium facade, with the two winged figures and the Latin inscription: a backlit shot from below that almost nobody takes. Inside, during the monologue, your phone stays off: a matter of respect for someone speaking alone before a whole hall, and in this case for the evening's theme too.

Some important events that happened here in history

Auditorium Conciliazione opened in 1950 and over more than 70 years went from a traditional cultural venue to a hall open to every contemporary language. Recent episodes, documented by the venue, show its weight in the life of the city.

In 2023 the hall hosted the world premiere of Mission: Impossible, Dead Reckoning Part One and, the same fall, the 21st edition of Alice nella Città within the Rome Film Fest. For the third year running it hosted the Stati Generali della Natalità, confirming the building's dual nature, theater and conference center. Mozart's The Magic Flute in the educational version by Europa InCanto, recognized by the Ministry as a project of excellence, brought thousands of students into the hall.

2024 opened with Supermagic XX, the 20th edition of what the venue bills as Europe's biggest magic show, from January 25 to February 4, preceded by four nights of Queen at the Opera. On March 8, 2024 the hall hosted the LAZIOSound evening, the Lazio Region's program for young musicians, with Noemi and Federica Carta. From January 16 to February 16, 2025, the Jubilee year, the Auditorium ran Bernadette de Lourdes for a month, a musical about the Marian apparitions with music by Grégoire, directed by Serge Denoncourt. A hall that in the same decade welcomes a Hollywood premiere, a national conference and an opera for young people is a theater serving the city, and a monologue about the soul fits in naturally.

Who has passed through Paolo Crepet at Auditorium Conciliazione, April 27, 2027

The Auditorium Conciliazione stage has seen entertainers such as Pio e Amedeo, on March 4, 5 and 6, 2024 with Felicissimo show, and Alessandro Cattelan, who brought Salutava sempre here on April 6, 2023. In 2023 Vinicio Capossela presented his urgent songs tour in theaters here, on October 13 and 14, and the same year brought Fast Animals and Slow Kids, Franco Ricciardi, Paola e Chiara, and the Orchestra Italiana del Cinema playing the Pirates of the Caribbean score live during the screening.

The 2026/2027 season, Crepet's season, opens on October 8, 2026 with a pairing that resembles him: Aldo Cazzullo with Angelo Branduardi, words and music on the same stage. Then come Sal Da Vinci, a show on Grazia Deledda, Coez, Malika Ayane, Brunori Sas, Enrico Brignano from November 10 to 22, Francesca Michielin, the musical Gloria between December and January, Supermagic Impossibile, Shen Yun in February, Valentina Persia on March 8, Alessandro Siani from March 12 to 14 and Luca Ravenna on March 19.

In this list Crepet holds a place of his own: he's the only one who takes the stage without a joke, a song or a magic trick to offer, just a book and a question about happiness. That such a big hall chooses to give him an evening says a lot about the Rome audience, and about the thirst for serious words a tourist city keeps beneath the surface.

Accessibility at Auditorium Conciliazione

For tickets for people with disabilities, Auditorium Conciliazione asks you to write to info@auditoriumconciliazione.it or call 06 684391, when the show page doesn't list a specific channel: for a single date it's the first thing to do, even before choosing your section.

Arriving without barriers

Of the two stations the venue names, Ottaviano is equipped for wheelchairs and Lepanto isn't. The Traspontina stop and the tram stop on Via Barletta are listed as accessible. The route from Ottaviano is flat but crosses busy intersections and construction stretches: with a manual wheelchair it's best to have a companion, or take a taxi to the door.

If you're hard of hearing

At a spoken-word evening, if you have hearing difficulties choose the central and front rows of the orchestra. The acoustics are good, but closeness helps with lip-reading.

With teens

The hall doesn't state an age limit. The themes, though, are adult: happiness, desire, the violence of the present, technocracy. A high school student interested in psychology or philosophy can get a lot out of it, while a child would be bored. For a parent with a teenager it's a rare chance to listen together to someone who also talks about the two of them.

Borgo and Prati around Auditorium Conciliazione

Auditorium Conciliazione sits between Castel Sant'Angelo, about 230 meters away, and St. Peter's Square, just over half a kilometer away: if you arrive an hour early, two of the most recognizable places in the world are within strolling distance. The full picture is in our guide to Prati and Borgo, what to see.

Castel Sant'Angelo and the bridge

Beyond Piazza Pia rises Castel Sant'Angelo, which dominates the riverside at night. Ponte Sant'Angelo, pedestrian only, takes you to the other bank: there and back in a quarter of an hour.

St. Peter's Square at sunset

At the end of the street opens St. Peter's Square. After sunset the daytime crowd thins and the colonnade becomes readable again. Walking to the obelisk before the show is a privilege no other Roman theater offers.

The Passetto and the district

The Passetto di Borgo, the raised walkway between the Vatican and Castel Sant'Angelo, runs a few hundred meters from the hall. For the neighborhood's history there's our page on the Borgo district.

Where to eat before or after Paolo Crepet

The handiest place to eat before the evening is inside the building: Auditorium Conciliazione houses the Chorus Cafè, the bar-restaurant the venue lists among its spaces. In a late April week crowded with visitors, book it.

Borgo

The streets of Borgo, starting with Borgo Pio, offer trattorias and pizzerias built largely on the flow of Vatican visitors. Quality varies. The rule I apply with groups: be wary of photo menus in four languages and prefer places where, at 20:00, the tables are speaking Roman.

Prati

Around Via Cola di Rienzo and Piazza Cavour the choice widens: pizza by the slice, neighborhood trattorias, wine bars with food. It's the right area if you're coming from Lepanto and want to eat along the way.

After the evening

On the way out, on a Tuesday evening, Borgo is almost asleep. If you want a drink to discuss what you heard, cross Ponte Sant'Angelo toward the Ponte district or head back up toward Prati.

Late April in Rome, Crepet's week

In late April Rome is at its fullest: long days, mild evenings, a city crowded between April 25 and May 1. The evening temperature is pleasant, but the wind can blow along the river: a light jacket helps.

A full day

If your afternoon is free you can build a full day: Castel Sant'Angelo in the afternoon, a walk in Prati, an aperitivo in Borgo, then the Auditorium. It's a day that brings together the papal Renaissance and a thoroughly contemporary reflection, and the contrast works.

A Tuesday

Tuesday is a theater day little frequented by the big weekend crowd: in the hall will be people who chose Crepet specifically, not people looking for any old evening out. It's the best audience for a monologue that asks for attention.

Frequently asked questions about Paolo Crepet in Rome

When is Paolo Crepet at Auditorium Conciliazione?

Paolo Crepet is at Auditorium Conciliazione in Rome with Riprendersi l'anima on Tuesday, April 27, 2027, a single date according to the hall's official calendar. The Auditorium is at Via della Conciliazione 4, in the Borgo district, half a kilometer from St. Peter's Square. The start time is listed on the show page.

Where can I buy tickets for Paolo Crepet in Rome?

Tickets for Paolo Crepet at Auditorium Conciliazione are sold from the show page on the hall's official website, whose Tickets button leads to the presale network authorized by the organizers. Prices by section are published there too. Avoid secondary sellers.

What is Riprendersi l'anima about?

Riprendersi l'anima is the Paolo Crepet book the hall presents as his most important: an antidote to conformity, technocracy and the violence of the present. Through reflections, memories and stories, Crepet asks what makes life worth living and warns against lukewarmness, the anesthesia of the emotions.

Who is Paolo Crepet?

Paolo Crepet is a psychiatrist, sociologist and essayist born in Turin in 1951 and raised in Padua. Trained close to Franco Basaglia, he has worked and taught in India, Europe, Canada, Brazil and at Harvard. He has written dozens of books on young people, family and emotions, and in 2013 he chaired the literary jury of the Campiello prize.

How do you get to Auditorium Conciliazione?

Auditorium Conciliazione, at Via della Conciliazione 4, is reached by Metro A to Ottaviano or Lepanto and then on foot in about a quarter of an hour. The nearest surface stop is Traspontina. By car, the venue lists parking at Piazza Cavour, Piazza Adriana, Terminal Vaticano and Gran Melia.

Is Paolo Crepet's evening suitable for teens?

Riprendersi l'anima at Auditorium Conciliazione has no age limit stated by the hall, but the themes are adult: happiness, desire, technocracy, the violence of the present. It's suited to older teens, especially with a parent, and for children it's too long and too abstract.

Where should I sit for Paolo Crepet?

For Paolo Crepet at Auditorium Conciliazione the center orchestra is best: in a monologue with no set and no music, seeing the speaker's face and gestures changes the evening. Sala Grande has 1,756 seats, and from the last rows the voice carries well, but the expressions are lost.

Final tip on Paolo Crepet at Auditorium Conciliazione

Book early, go as two or four, arrive on foot from Castel Sant'Angelo and leave your phone in your pocket. You may or may not agree with Paolo Crepet, and many don't, but it's rare to hear someone who, before a hall of more than 1,700 seats, asks the question about happiness without beating around the bush. The dinner afterward, arguing about it, will be the best part of the evening.

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