luci della ribalta

Italian

Etymology

Literally, “lights of the forestage”.

Noun

luci della ribalta f pl (plural only)

1. (theater) footlights
2. (figurative, by extension) limelight
   • 2020, Barack Obama, translated by Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, and Giuseppe Maugeri, Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:

     Aveva uno stile vecchio stampo, amava le luci della ribalta e non sempre era consapevole di sé.

     He had an old-school style, loved the limelight and was not always self-conscious.