Taylor Swift’s 2024 Milan Concert Sparks Rallying Cry in Italy Over Limited Wheelchair Access

variety.com:

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent A disabled young woman who purchased a premium ticket for a Taylor Swift concert next July at Milan’s San Siro stadium is sparking a rallying cry in Italy after she was informed by organizers that the venue’s front row section will not be enabled for wheelchair access.

Silvia Stoyanova, 35, who reportedly paid €300 ($327) for a seat at the front of the venue, says concert organizers subsequently informed her that another area of the stadium — which is farther away from the stage and also lateral to it — had been designated for wheelchair access.

However, tickets in that section were already sold out. The promoters for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour in Italy, Mimmo D’Alessandro and Adolfo Galli, have told multiple Italian press outlets that the seats at San Siro enabled with wheelchair access are only situated in the lateral orange section of the stadium.

Representatives for D’Alessandro, Galli and Swift did not immediately respond to Variety‘s request for comment. Stoyanova posted a video on TikTok in which she asked organizers to “stop seeing us [disabled people] as second-class citizens.” She added, “You need to understand that you are leaving at home sick people who don’t have the luxury of waiting another 13 years for Taylor Swift to return to Italy.”I’m italian swiftie.