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Sunday 1 August 2021, 9.15pm
Les Italiens de l’Opéra de Paris
Grand Dance Gala with the Italian Principal Dancers and Soloists of the Paris Opera
Letizia Galloni, Bianca Scudamore, Ambre Chiarcosso, Sofia Rosolini, Alessio Carbone, Francesco Mura, Andrea Sarri, Giorgio Fourès, Antonio Conforti
Highlights
Highlights
With Les Italiens de l’Opéra de Paris, a grand Gala is staged with the Italian principal dancers and soloists of the most prestigious dance company in the world, the Paris Opéra: Letizia Galloni, Bianca Scudamore, Ambre Chiarcosso, Sofia Rosolini, Alessio Carbone, Francesco Mura, Andrea Sarri, Giorgio Fourès, Antonio Conforti, reunited on the initiative of the principal dancer Alessio Carbone.
The group’s repertoire reflects that of the great French company and varies from classical and neo-classical to contemporary. The pas de deux, solos and pas de deux presented demonstrate all the modernity of this historic Parisian school which recently celebrated its 300 years of tradition. In addition to Alessio Carbone, originally from Messina, the group also includes Andrea Sarri from Palermo, who also presents his own choreography.
New Guidelines for the Audience
All the people who will access the Teatro Massimo or the Teatro di Verdura are required to take a few minutes to read the guidelines. Bear in mind that you are required to wear a face mask at all times, measure your body temperature upon arrival to the opera house, keep a physical distance of at least one metre from other people and sit in your selected seat.
Where to buy your tickets
At the Box-office, online on TicketOne.it, by calling the call centre. On performance days the Teatro di Verdura box-office is open from 7.15pm.
Concessions
Under 26, Under35 Card holders, 2020 subscribers, #iorinuncio al rimborso donors, students of the University of Palermo, Palermo Conservatory of Music and Palermo Academy of Arts, Uncalm, groups (at least 20 people for the same date), Diamond Card holders. 6 seats in section 1 are reserved for people with disabilities and their companions for each performance (at the fare of gradinata) - check with the box-office for further info. You will be required to show your ID/certificate to get the concession price.
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From 17 to 22 September 2021
Georges Bizet
Carmen
Conductor Omer Meir Wellber
Director Calixto Bieito
restaged by Alexander Edtbauer
Scene Designs Alfons Flores
Costume Designs Mercè Paloma
Lighting Designer Alberto Rodriguez Vega
Music Director’s Assistant Keren Kagarlitsky
Chorus Master Ciro Visco
Youth Chorus Master Salvatore Punturo
A Teatro Massimo production
in co-production with Gran Teatre del Liceu, Teatro Regio di Torino and Teatro La Fenice di Venezia
Live streaming on the Teatro Massimo WebTv and on Repubblica.it on Sept 17
Teatro Massimo Orchestra, Chorus and Youth Orchestra
Cast
Cast
Carmen Annalisa Stroppa (17, 19, 22) / Ketevan Kemoklidze (18, 21)
Don José Jean-François Borras (17, 19, 22) / Sébastien Guèze (18, 21)
Micaëla Ruth Iniesta
Escamillo Bogdan Baciu
Frasquita Hila Baggio
Mercédès Sofia Koberidze
Le Remendado Carlo Bosi
Le Dancaïre Nicolò Ceriani
Zuniga Giovanni Battista Parodi
Moralès Tommaso BareaLilas Pastia Pietro Arcidiacono
Torero Gaetano La Mantia
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Photo © Rosellina Garbo
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Tuesday, May 4 2021, 06:30 pm
Livestreaming Ballet available on the Teatro Massimo WebTv
This event is part of the project #apertinonostantetutto (We keep going, regardless)
Coreographer Marco Goecke
Set & Costume Designs Michaela Springer
Lighting Designs Udo Haberland
Dramaturgy Esther Dreesen-Schaback
Production restaged by Fabio Palombo
Maître de ballet Jean-Sébastien Colau
A production of the Zurich Opernhaus
Music by
Fryderyk Chopin Concerto for piano and orchestra no. 1 in E minor op. 11
Russian Lullaby (traditional) dal CD A Circle Is Cast registrato e arrangiato da Libana (libana.com)
Claude Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
Fryderyk Chopin Concerto for piano and orchestra no. 2 in F minor op. 21
Conductor Keren Kagarlitsky
Piano Alexander Gadjiev
Teatro Massimo Ballet and Orchestra
This version of the ballet has been adapted to the security regulations
Concept and Broadcasting co-ordinator Gery Palazzotto
Sound Engineering Manfredi Clemente
Television Producer Antonio Di Giovanni
Cast
Cast
Nijinski Alessandro Cascioli
Diaghilev Michele Morelli
Matka, la madre Romina Leone
Tersicore Martina Pasinotti
Amico Isajef Giovanni Traetto
Romola Linda Messina
Dottore Diego Mulone
La morte, “Quel Qualcosa” Giorgia Leonardi
Microboy Emilio Barone
Libellula Yuriko Nishihara
Libellula uomo Alessandro Casà
Ragazza sbarra Jessica Tranchina
Spettro della rosa Francesca Bellone
Solo sogno Francesca Davoli
Solo sogno e Solo in rosso Vincenzo Carpino
Ragazza in rosso Madoka Sasaki
Scena gruppo Vito Bortone
Photo © Rosellina Garbo
Highlights
Created in 2016, Nijinski is an award-winning show that has toured the world and is signed by German choreographer Marco Goecke, artist in residence in prestigious European companies such as the Gauthier Dance/Theaterhaus in Stuttgart, the Nederland Dans Theater in The Hague and director of the Staatsballett of Hanover. “As a choreographer – says Marco Goecke – Nijinsky has always looked for new ways of expression … It was clear to me from the beginning that I wanted to create an emotional choreography, which drew inspiration from Nijinsky's character, but which absolutely had to go beyond the narrow frame of the biography”.
Goecke's choreography is characterized by very rapid, minute and nervous movements, hands that vibrate, arms that swirl in the air, gestures that could recall sequences from silent cinema and that evoke many of the ballets that made Nijinski and the Balletts Russes famous: from Petrushka to L’après– midi d’un faune, from Le specter de la rose to Le sacre du printemps.But they also give us the entire progression of the illness into which Nijinski gradually sank, until he was lost, consumed by schizophrenic delirium.
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Sergej Prokofiev
Romeo e Giulietta
Conductor Ido Arad
Choreography Davide Bombana
Choreography Assistant Roberto Zamorano
Costums Santi Rinciari
Lightning Designs Carlo Cerri
Teatro Massimo Ballet Corps and Orchestra
Cast
Cast
Giulietta Romina Leone (19, 21) / Francesca Bellone (22, 23)
Romeo Andrea Mocciardini (19, 21) / Gianluca Mascia (22, 23)
Mercuzio Emilio Barone (19, 21) / Giovanni Traetto (22, 23)
Tebaldo Bryan Ramirez Hurtado (19, 21) / Vincenzo Carpino (22, 23)
Amica di Giulietta Yuriko Nishihara (19, 21) / Jessica Tranchina (22, 23)
Madre di Giulietta Daniela Filangeri
Madre di Romeo Francesca Davoli (19, 21) / Noemi Ferrante (22, 23)
Paride Vincenzo Carpino (19, 21) / Marcello Carini (22, 23)
Lorenzo Gaetano La Mantia (19, 21) / Fabio Correnti (22, 23)
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Photo © Rosellina Garbo
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July 27, 29, 30 and 31 2025, 9pm | Main Stage
Fatalità
Giulietta, Traviata, Anna Karenina, Carmen
Ballet
Music by Sergei Prokofiev, Giuseppe Verdi, Pëtr Il’ič Čajkovskij and Georges Bizet
Choreography and Scene Designs Toni Candeloro
Conductor Alessandro Ferrari
Costumi Edlira Qyshka
Video Florian Canga
Luci Vincenzo Traina
Assistente alla coreografia Enada Hoxha
Teatro Massimo Corps de ballet and Orchestra
Ballet Director Jean-Sébastien Colau
A production of the Tirana National Theatre of Opera and Ballet
Running time: 1 hour and 15 minutes without intermission
Tickets
Bookings open on Tuesday, June 3
Price range: 12 – 30 euro
[Ticket fares and info]
Cast
Cast
Giulietta, Traviata, Anna Karenina, Carmen Martina Pasinotti (27, 30) / Francesca Davoli (29, 31)
Romeo Giovanni Traetto (27, 30) / Emilio Barone (29, 31)
Madre Giulietta Sabrina Montanaro (27, 30) / Noemi Ferrante (29, 31)
Padre Giulietta Fabio Correnti
Madre Romeo Romina Leone (27, 30) / Michaela Colino (29, 31)
Padre Romeo Daniele Chiodo
Alfredo Germont Alessandro Cascioli (27, 30) / Michele Morelli (29, 31)
Giorgio Germont Vincenzo Carpino
Due donne (Traviata)
Michaela Colino, Yuriko Nishihara (27, 30)
Romina Leone, Sabrina Montanaro (29, 31)
Alexis Vronski Andrea Mocciardini (27, 30) / Diego Mulone (29, 31)
Kostya Levin Dennis Vizzini (27, 30) / Gianluca Mascia (29, 31)
Due donne (Karenina) Noemi Ferrante, Debora Di Giovanni
Don José Diego Mulone
Escamillo Marcos Rodríguez Ovejero ballerino flamenco
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Ph. Rosellina Garbo
The poster
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Souls in Limbo, beyond Boundaries
The presentation of the new 2025-2026 season of operas, ballets and concerts took place in the enchanting Art Nouveau hall of Villa Igiea, Rocco Forte Hotel, a partner of the Foundation.
Souls in Limbo, Beyond Borders is the title and the invisible thread that runs through the entire season, weaving an underground plot that unites works and ballets, eras and styles, tradition and vision. It is the plot of characters suspended on the brink of something: an impossible love, a fatal choice, an inner transformation.
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.
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, such as the fight against gender-based violence and for the rights of children and adolescents.
Discover the 2025-26 Season
Read the press release
Presentation
The Season
‘Souls in Limbo, Beyond Borders’ is the title and the invisible thread that runs through the entire season, weaving an underground plot that unites works and ballets, eras and styles, tradition and vision. It is the plot of characters suspended on the brink of something: an impossible love, a fatal choice, an inner transformation. This is a season of blurred boundaries, of those territories where dream and reality intertwine, where art becomes life and fiction becomes revelation. A season where the main characters live permanently suspended on a threshold between desire and duty, the self and the other, light and shadow. The protagonists face not certainties but shadows, mists, mirrors that sometimes reflect clearly, sometimes distort reality. Not safe havens, but fertile anxieties. The theatrical scene thus becomes a mirror of the human condition: fragile, changeable, deeply true.
All the staff and artists of the Teatro Massimo Foundation will be involved in the operas, ballets and concerts: the Orchestra, Chorus, Ballet, Youth Chorus as well as the Set Design Workshops.
The Season includes titles taken from the great repertoire, new productions, visionary reinterpretations, international co-productions and an artistic and symbolic journey that explores the thresholds of existence: between light and shadow, reality and imagination, destiny and desire.
About
The ballet Carmen‘s dress rehearsal is open as a fund-raising event for Missione Speranza e Carità.
Info: contact the Missione Speranza e Carità, Via Archirafi n. 31 – 90123 Palermo
Tel: +39 3792720296 | mail: eventoteatromassimo@missionedisperanzaecarita.org
Unsold tickets, if available, will be on sale at the Teatro Massimo box-office from June 9 2023.
Programme
Tickets
15 to 50 €
About
Serata di danza
Attore Gigi Borruso
Luci Salvatore Spataro
Costumi Fondazione Teatro Massimo
Corpo di ballo del Teatro Massimo
Direttore del Corpo di ballo Davide Bombana
Programme
TANGO GENESIS
Coreografia di Marcello Carini
Musiche Philip Glass, Max Richter, André Dziezuk
ZONA TANGO
Coreografia di Alessandro Cascioli
Musiche Gerardo Matos Rodríguez, Silencio Tango Orchestra, Zona Tango
PASSO A DUE DA CARMEN
Coreografia di Amedeo Amodio
Musica Georges Bizet
Étoiles ospiti Eleonora Abbagnato e Michele Satriano
PLAYING TANGO
Coreografia di Gaetano La Mantia
Musiche Alessandro Russo, Fabio Hager Sexteto, Leroy Anderson, Astor Piazzolla
CONTACT TANGO
Coreografia di Jean-Sébastien Colau e Vincenzo Veneruso
Musica Stefano Conti
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About
Coreografia Davide Bombana
Musiche di Jean-Philippe Rameau e Walter Fähndrich
Direttore Ignazio Maria Schifani
Scene e costumi Dorin Gal
Video Enrico Mazzi
Luci Carlo Cerri
Assistenti alla coreografia Cristiano Colangelo e Jean-Sébastien Colau
Trascrizioni musicali e revisione di Vito Mandina
Nuovo allestimento del Teatro Massimo
Personaggi e interpreti
Scarica il cast completo (in formato PDF)
Marchesa de Merteuil Ana Sophia Scheller (26, 28) / Linda Messina (29)
Valmont Michele Morelli (26, 28) / Andrea Mocciardini (29)
Madame de Tourvel Yuriko Nishihara (26, 28) / Francesca Bellone (29)
Danceny Alessandro Cascioli (26, 28) / Alessandro Casà (29)
Cécile Volanges Giorgia Leonardi (26, 28) / Jessica Tranchina (29)
Madame de Volanges Romina Leone (26, 28) / Daniela Filangeri (29)
Gercourt Riccardo Riccio (26, 28) / Gaetano La Mantia (29)
Soprano Gabriella Barresi (26, 29) / Valentina Vitti (28)
Tenore Pietro Luppina (26, 29) / Antonio Pastorelli (28)
Programme
Coreografia ispirata al romanzo del 1782 di Chaderlos de Laclose
Una storia di inganni, intrighi e vendette – ha detto Davide Bombana, direttore del Corpo di Ballo del Teatro Massimo di Palermo – dove la seduzione fa da padrona nei rapporti tra le personalità complesse che muovono la vicenda. Uno scambio continuo di lettere tra loro, per lo più segrete, tesse una trama di menzogne e calunnie che porta la protagonista, la marchesa di Merteuil, alla rovina. Avendo l’amore sensuale una parte fondamentale nella storia, la danza ne può tradurre alla perfezione stati d’animo e inquietudini, sia nei passi a due che nelle scene di gruppo. Il balletto è in punta, con stile prettamente neoclassico. I costumi e le scene ricordano in maniera asciutta ed essenziale i costumi d’epoca..