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2025/26 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 Concerts Season opens on December 4 with an exceptional event, featuring the first screening at the Teatro Massimo of Luchino Visconti’s film Il gattopardo (The Leopard) in its recently restored version, with a live performance of the soundtrack composed by Nino Rota. Rota’s score will be performed by the Teatro Massimo Orchestra conducted by Timothy Brock, a highly acclaimed conductor, one of the leading experts in live film music performances, and a much-appreciated guest of our seasons in the past.
This event ties in with the first ballet of the season, Swan Lake, which will be set in mid-19th century Sicily. Another concert of great importance, as is now customary, will be the New Year’s concert, with the Chorus and Orchestra conducted by Maestro Lorenzo Passerini, a non-subscription event that has been greatly appreciated by the people of Palermo and tourists for many years. The concert on 8 January will feature one of the greatest masterpieces of sacred music of the classical period, Ludwig van Beethoven‘s Missa solemnis. The German composer encapsulates not only his own compositional journey, but also the entire history of the sung mass genre, from Gregorian chant to his own work, creating an impressive monument of admirable complexity. Umberto Clerici will take to the podium to conduct the four vocal soloists, the Orchestra and the Teatro Massimo Chorus led by Salvatore Punturo. The concert on 8 February 2026 will also feature the Chorus and orchestra in a programme conducted by Frédéric Chaslin, who returns to the Teatro Massimo after his wonderful experience with Gounod’s Faust and the Strauss concert in the 2024-25 season. The concertmaster of the Teatro Massimo Orchestra, Salvatore Greco, will be the violin soloist. The concert season is also an opportunity for the Foundation to showcase its network of collaborations with other institutions in Palermo and Italy: this is the case with the concert on 25 February 2026 by the National Baroque Orchestra of Conservatories conducted by violinist Emmanuel Resche-Caserta with soprano Marie Perbost and music by Lully, Marais and Rameau. This is a project of the Ministry of University and Research in collaboration with the Alessandro Scarlatti Conservatory of Music in Palermo, which will be repeated at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome in March. On 19 March, the Teatro Massimo Chorus, conducted by Chorus master Salvatore Punturo, will present a programme of choral music accompanied by piano.
On 22 March, following the great success of the 2025 concert, the Orchestra Nazionale dei Conservatori (National Orchestra of the Conservatories of Music) will return under the direction of Diego Ceretta to perform Dmitri Shostakovich‘s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 with Elia Cecino on piano and Sergei Prokofiev’s Suite from Romeo and Juliet. This is also a project of the Ministry of University and Research, carried out in collaboration with the Ottorino Respighi Conservatory of Musicin Latina.
Two concerts in collaboration with other Palermo institutions will follow: on 6 May 2026 with the Alessandro Scarlatti Conservatory of Music Orchestra and on 24 September, thanks to the long and fruitful collaboration with the Sicilian Jazz Orchestra of The Brass Group Foundation. The Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Massimo will perform another great Beethoven masterpiece after the Missa solemnis: on 9 and 10 June, it will be the turn of the Ninth Symphony with the Ode to Joy based on the text by Friedrich Schiller in the last movement, conducted by Nir Kabaretti. The season will close on 11 October with Gabriele Ferro, honorary musical director for life of the Teatro Massimo, in a concert with our Orchestra.

Subscription Confirmation

from September 16 to October 12 2025

New Subscribers

from October 21 2025 to December 4

Concert Season Calendar

2025/2026 Concert Subscription Prices

Section	Full price	Concession	Under35/Turno Prime (*)
1	215	195	107,50
2	180	165	90
3	180	165	90
4	180	165	90
5	150	135	75
6	150	135	75
7	150	135	75

(*) The Under35 Concession for the Concert Subscription is reserved to a) Teatro Massimo Card Under35 holders who have also subscribed to the the Premiere Opera & Ballet Season and b) the Premiere Opera & Ballet Season subscribers.