2025/26 Opera & Ballet Season
‘Suspended Souls, Beyond Borders’ is the title and invisible thread of the entire season, weaving an underground plot that unites opera and ballet, different eras and styles, tradition and vision. We’ll meet characters suspended on the brink of something: an impossible love, a fatal choice, an inner transformation.
This is also a season of blurred boundaries, of territories where dream and reality intertwine, where art becomes life and fiction becomes revelation, where the protagonists, who live permanently suspended on a threshold between desire and duty, between the self and the other, between light and shadow, face not certainties but shadows, mists, mirrors that sometimes reflect clearly, sometimes distort reality. With no safe havens, but fertile sources of unease. Once again the Theatre thus becomes a mirror of the human condition: fragile, changeable, profoundly true.
The emotional focus of the season is on the female protagonists: from Zemfira to Nedda, from Gilda to Dido, from Aida to Amneris, to Semiramide. Figures suspended between desire and condemnation, purity and rebellion, love and renunciation. The season explores the dramatic power of their stories, often marked by exclusion, strength and sacrifice, and does so in dialogue with the great issues of our time, starting with the fight against gender violence and for the rights of children and adolescents.
Subscriptions
Subscription Confirmation
TURNS PRIME/B/C/D/F/OPERA/DANZA/CONCERTI
from September 16 to October 12 2025
New Subscribers
TURNS PRIME/B/C/D/F/OPERA/DANZA/CONCERTI
from October 21 2025 to the first day of performance of the subscription
TURNO SCUOLA (FOR SCHOOL GROUPS)
reservations open on October 13 2025
Opera & Ballet Season Calendar
| Operas and Ballets | PREMIERE | D | B | C | F | OPERA | DANZA | SCUOLA | Single-Tickets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Commencing Time | 8pm | 5.30pm | 6.30pm | 6.30pm | 8pm | 6.30pm | 6.30pm | 6.30pm | 6.30pm |
| Aleko/Pagliacci | 21/11 7pm | 23/11 | 25/11 | 27/11 | 22/11 | 26/11 | / | / | / |
| La bohème | 14/12 | 21/12 | 19/12 | 17/12 | 18/12 | 20/12 | / | 16/12 | 23/12 |
| Il lago dei cigni (Swan Lake) | 22/01 | 25/01 | 27/01 | 29/01 | 23/01 | / | 24/01 | 28/01 | 30/01 8pm – 31/01 8pm – 1 feb |
| Dido and Aeneas | 20/02 | 22/02 | 24/02 | 21/02 | / | / | / | / | / |
| Semiramide | 11/03 | 15/03 | 13/03 | 18/03 | 14/03 | 12/03 | / | 17/03 | |
| Don Quichotte | 29/03 | 04/04 | 31/03 | 02/04 | 01/04 | / | 03/04 | / | / |
| Le convenienze e inconvenienze teatrali | 26/04 | 03/05 | 28/04 | 30/04 | / | 02/05 | / | 29/04 | / |
| Aida | 22/05 | 24/05 | 29/05 | 27/05 | 28/05 | / | 23/05 | 26/05 | 30/05 8pm – 31/05 |
| Caravaggio | 20/06 | 21/06 6:30pm | 23/06 | 24/06 | / | / | 26/06 | / | 25/06 8pm |
| Cavalleria Rusticana | 12/09 | 20/09 6:30pm | 18/09 | 16/09 | 19/09 | 15/09 | / | 17/09 | 13/09 8pm |
| La bella addormentata (Sleeping Beauty) | 03/10 | 4/10 | 06/10 | 07/10 | 08/10 | / | 09/10 | / | / |
| Rigoletto | 23/10 | 25/10 | 30/10 | 28/10 | 24/10 | 27/10 | / | / | 29/10 31/10 |
PREMIERES, PREMIERES UNDER35, D TURNS
| SECTION | PRIME | PRIME UNDER 35 (*) | D | D |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 shows | 12 shows | Full price | Concession | |
1  | 890 | 270 | 790 | 710 |
2  | 770 | 230 | 670 | 605 |
3  | 660 | 200 | 585 | 525 |
4  | 525 | 160 | 465 | 420 |
5  | 385 | 115 | 335 | 300 |
6  | 355 | 105 | 310 | 280 |
7  | 260 | 80 | 225 | 200 |
(*) The Under35 concession is reserved to people under the age of 35 holding a Teatro Massimo Under35 Card
B/C, F, OPERA TURNS
| Section | B / C | B / C | F | F | OPERA | OPERA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full price | Concession | Full price | Concession | Full price | Concession | |
| 1 | 670 | 605 | 560 | 505 | 420 | 380 |
| 2 | 590 | 530 | 490 | 440 | 360 | 325 |
| 3 | 525 | 470 | 435 | 390 | 325 | 290 |
| 4 | 400 | 360 | 340 | 305 | 245 | 220 |
| 5 | 305 | 275 | 255 | 230 | 185 | 165 |
| 6 | 280 | 250 | 230 | 210 | 170 | 155 |
| 7 | 205 | 185 | 170 | 155 | 120 | 110 |
DANZA, SCUOLA TURNS
| SETTORE | DANZA | DANZA | SCUOLA | SCUOLA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full price | Student Concession° | Full price | Student Concession° | |
| 1 | 240 | 120 | 230 | 115 |
| 2 | 210 | 105 | 230 | 115 |
| 3 | 185 | 92,50 | 150 | 75 |
| 4 | 135 | 67,50 | 150 | 75 |
| 5 | 105 | 52,50 | 150 | 75 |
| 6 | 95 | 47,50 | 100 | 50 |
| 7 | 75 | 37,50 | 80 | 40 |
° The concession for Turns Scuola and Danza is reserved to students
Concessions on Subscriptions
People Under 26 and (only for yearly subscriptions and not for tickets) Over 65, Teatro Massimo Card Under 35 holders, students of the University of Palermo, the Palermo Conservatory of Music A. Scarlatti and the Palermo Academy of Fine Arts, Uncalm members, groups of at least 20 people for the same date, Diamond Card holders. 2025/26 Opera & Ballet Subscribers can purchase the Concert Subscription at concession price. For disabled spectators in wheelchairs and their companions the Theatre offers 6 accessible seats in sector 1 at the price of sector 7. Other people with disabilities and their accompanying person For all reductions, a certificate and an identity document must be presented.
Pre-emption Rights and Subscription Fees
Season Subscribers have a pre-emption right confirm the same seat they had in 2024/25 for all the confirmation period, free of charge. No extra fee is applied to subscriptions at the box-office; for online and telephone sales, the fee is 2%.
Purchasing Yearly Subscriptions
Subscriptions can be confirmed at the Teatro Massimo box office, by bank transfer (after sending an email to the box office at biglietteria@teatromassimo.it to confirm the purchase) or by contacting the call centre. New Subscriptions can be purchased at the Ticket Office, by contacting the Call Centre and online at teatromassimo.it Payment can be made in cash, by debit card, by cheque made payable to Fondazione Teatro Massimo, by credit card or by bank transfer (IBAN: IT 79 J 03069 04630 100000300068).
In the case of a bank transfer, a copy of the payment must be sent promptly to the ticket office to complete the purchase.
Teatro Massimo Box-Office
The ticket office is open Tuesday to Sunday from 9.30 a.m. to 3.30 p.m. and on performance days also from one hour before and up to half an hour after the start of the performance, exclusively for sales relating to the day’s performance.
Contact: biglietteria@teatromassimo.it / tel: +39 091 6053580
Season Calendar