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Monday, September 6 2021, 09:30 pm
Chiesa di S. Maria allo Spasimo
Spasimo 2021
Omer Meir Wellber – Ruggiero Mascellino
Omer Meir Wellber piano and accordion
Ruggiero Mascellino accordion
Featuring Vito Giordano flugelhorn
Tickets
On sale through The Brass Group
Info line from 9.30 to 12.30am and from 3.30 to 7.30pm (calls and whatsapp) at the number +39 334 7391972
Online tickets at https://brassgroup.organizzatori.18tickets.it/film/14396
Programme
Ruggiero Mascellino
Atlantis
Pensieri
Rêve
Arabian Jazz
Edvard Grieg
Danza di Anitra
Astor Piazzolla
Invierno Porteño
Verano Porteño
Emir Kusturica
Folklor Suite, popular songs from the Balkans and valzers
Vito Giordano
September Again
New Things of Love
Anatoly Shalaev
Melodie del Volga
Photo © Rosellina Garbo
Photo © Franco Lannino
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Tuesday 10 and Thursday 12 December 2024, 8:30 pm| Foyer
Chorus in the Foyer
(Coro in Foyer)
Conductor Salvatore Punturo
Teatro Massimo Corus
Tenors Francesco Polizzi (10), Marco Palmeri (10) / Gianmarco Randazzo (12), Pietro Luppina (12)
Baritone Cosimo Diano
Piano Claudio Marchetti
Guitar Giuseppe Costantino
Doublebass Daniele Pisanelli
Percussions Antonino Reina, Vito Amato, Rosario Cusimano
Tickets: Full price 15€ / Concession 12€
Programme
Herbert Howells
A Spotless Rose
Franz Xaver Gruber
Stille Nacht
John Rutter
Angel’s Carol
Christmas Lullaby
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Ariel Ramirez
Missa Criolla
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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.
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Duomo di Monreale
Conductor and Trombone Michele De Luca
Massimo Youth Orchestra
Programme
Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto grosso per la notte di Natale
Violini Denise De Luca, Simone Carollo
Violoncello Giuseppe D’Amato
Johann Sebastian Bach
Suite No. 3 in D Major BVW1068
Georg Christoph Wagenseil
Concerto per trombone alto e orchestra
Trombone Michele De Luca
Simone Piraino
Intermezzo
Leroy Anderson
A Christmas Festival
James Lord Pierpont
Jingle Bells
Photo © Franco Lannino
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Ciclo Beethoven nel 250° anniversario della nascita di Beethoven
Conductor Daniel Cohen
Teatro Massimo Orchestra
Programme
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Symphony n.2 in Re maggiore op. 36
Symphony n.5 in do minore op. 67
Photo © Rosellina Garbo
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Saturday, March 20 2021, 08:00 pm
Livestreaming Concert on the Teatro Massimo WebTv
This event is part of the project #apertinonostantetutto (We keep going, regardless)
Conductor Francesco Lanzillotta
Chorus Master Ciro Visco
Soprano Angela Meade
Mezzosoprano Marianna Pizzolato
Tenor Enea Scala
Baritone Nicola Alaimo
Teatro Massimo Orchestra and Chorus
Programme
Giuseppe Verdi
“Tu che le vanità” from Don Carlo
“Patria oppressa” from Macbeth
Act III opening scene and arias from Un ballo in maschera:
“Morrò ma prima in grazia”
“Eri tu”
Gioachino Rossini
“Sois immobile” from Guillaume Tell
“Ai capricci della sorte” from L’italiana in Algeri
“Serbami ognor sì fido” from Semiramide
“O patria… Di tanti palpiti” from Tancredi
Gaetano Donizetti
“Il segreto per esser felici” from Lucrezia Borgia
“Spirto gentil” from La favorita
“Un tenero core” from Roberto Devereux
“Venti scudi” from L’elisir d’amore
Vincenzo Bellini
“Svanir le voci” from Norma
“Guerra, guerra” from Norma
“Col sorriso d’innocenza” from Il pirata
Gallery
Photo © Franco Lannino
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Saturday, April 3 2021, 06:00 pm
Livestreaming Concert on the Teatro Massimo WebTv
This event is part of the project #apertinonostantetutto (We keep going, regardless)
Conductor Michele Spotti
Chorus Master Ciro Visco
Soprano Giuliana Gianfaldoni
Mezzosoprano Vasilisa Berzhanskaya
Tenor Edgardo Rocha
Bass Luca Tittoto
Teatro Massimo Orchestra and Chorus
Concept and Broadcasting co-ordinator Gery Palazzotto
Sound Producer Manfredi Clemente
Television Producer Antonio Di Giovanni
Programme
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 41 in C major K551 Jupiter
Gioachino Rossini
Stabat Mater for soloists, chorus and orchestra
Gallery
Photo © Franco Lannino
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Thursday April 17 at 11:30am | Main Stage
Il cerchio tagliato dei suoni
Salvatore Sciarrino
Concert fot 4 solo flutes and 100 migrant flutes (1997)
Solo Flutes Gianni Trovalusci, Alessandra Rombolà, Alessandro Lo Giudice, Eva Geraci
In collaboration with:
Conservatorio “Alessandro Scarlatti” di Palermo
Conservatorio “Antonio Scontrino” di Trapani
Liceo Musicale “Regina Margherita”
and the schools with musical focus:
I.C. S. “De Gasperi – Pecoraro”
I. C. S. “Mattarella – Bonagia”
I. C. S. “De Amicis – Da Vinci”
I. C. S. “P. V. Marone – Tomaselli”
I. C. S. “Giuseppe Verdi”
I. C. S. “Monti Iblei – V. E. Orlando”
I. C. S. “Cruillas”
I. C. S. “Politeama”
I. C. S. “Maneri – Ingrassia – Don Lorenzo Milani”
I. C. S. “Balsamo Pandolfini” di Termini Imerese
Convitto Nazionale “Giovanni Falcone”
Produced by Curva Minore in co-production
with the Teatro Massimo Foundation
Project realised within the PrimaVera Contemporanea music festival
organised and produced by Curva Minore
About the project
Tickets
Full price 10 euro
Presentation
With this project made of breath, air, wind, vital breath, we hope that the Earth, progressively freed from pollution, can breathe again.
The piece, of great emotional intensity and sonic and musical fascination, is intended (in the promoters’ intention) as a liberating trigger of strong energies, directed towards an ever-increasing awareness of environmental and sustainability issues and the actions to be taken to implement them.
A Sound Ecology project to affirm once again affirms that music and the practice of the musical instrument are fundamental in the overall development of the individual, harmonising cognitive faculties with the deepest moods and emotions and acting as a stimulus for the development of the expressive and creative potential of the human being and his interpersonal relational network.
In addition to its specific artistic content, the work’s formative value is particularly significant. In an intergenerational and inclusive experience of new musical languages, it brings together 4 soloists and 100 very young flute players from the flute classes of the Palermo schools with a music focus, from the Liceo Musicale and young Conservatory students who act as tutors in this great project of migration and change.
Poster
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Sunday, May 30 2021, 07:00 pm
Conductor Roberto Abbado
Bass Marko Mimica
Chorus Master Ciro Visco
Teatro Massimo Orchestra and Chorus
Programme
Hector Berlioz
Tristia op. 18 for chorus and orchestra
Modest Petrovič Musorgskij
Songs and dances of Death (orchestration by Dmitrij Šostakóvič)
Pictures at an exhibition (orchestration by Maurice Ravel)
Gallery
New Guidelines for the Audience
The Teatro Massimo reopens in May 2021, with new safety and health guidelines linked to the the Covid-19 emergency. All the people who will access the theatre 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 and by calling the call centre.
Concessions
Under 26 anni, Under35 Card holders, 2020 subscribers, students of the University of Palermo, Palermo Conservatory of Music and Pale rmo Academy of Arts, Uncalm, groups (at least 20 people for the same date), Diamond Card holders, subscribers to the "Associazione Siciliana Amici della Musica" (only for the "Insieme sotto una nuova luce" concerts). People with disabilities and their companions have special fares - check with the box-office for further info. Donors #iorinuncioalrimborso are granted the Under35 discount for the "Sotto una nuova luce" performances.
Photo © Franco Lannino