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Wednesday June 3 2026, 8:30pm – Main Stage
Romanian Chamber Orchestra
Cultural Year Romania – Italy 2026
Conductor Gabriel Bebeșelea
Piano Daniel Ciobanu
Romanian Chamber Orchestra
In collaboration with the Romanian Embassy in Italy
Admission to the concert is free.
Invitation tickets will be available to season ticket holders for the Teatro Massimo’s opera, ballet and concert season from Saturday 23 May, subject to availability.
From Thursday 28 May, tickets will also be available to the general public, subject to availability.
Programme
Béla Bartók
Romanian Folk Dances
(version for string orchestra)
Giuseppe Verdi
Allegro from the Quartet in E minor
(version for string orchestra)
Dinu Lipatti
Concertino in Classical Style op. 3
George Enescu
Octet op. 7
(version for string orchestra by Lawrence Foster)
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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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Tuesday, May 5 2026 – 7.15pm – Church San Francesco di Paola
Thursday, May 7 2026 – 7.30pm – Church “Nostra Signora delle Nazioni in S. Eugenio Papa”
The Massimo for the City of Palermo – The Teatro Massimo String Ensemble
Conductor Michele De Luca
Violin Salvatore Greco
String Ensemble of the Teatro Massimo Orchestra
Free admission subject to availability
Programme
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Eine kleine Nachtmusik K 525
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Divertimento for Strings in D Major K 136
Astor Piazzolla
Adiòs Nonino
Oblivion
Ave Maria
Libertango
Ennio e Andrea Morricone
Love Theme from Nuovo Cinema Paradiso
Carlos Gardel
Por una cabeza
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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
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Friday, March 8 2024, 8:30pm | Foyer
Conductor Mojca Lavrenčič
Teatro Massimo Orchestra
Tickets: Full price 15€ / Concession 12€
Programme
Anna Amalia von Sachsen Weimar Eisenach
Ouverture from Erwin und Elmire
Fanny Mendelssohn
Ouverture in C major
Louise Farrenc
Symphony n. 3 in G minor op. 36
Emilie Mayer
Ouverture n. 2 in D major
About
Saturday May 31 2025, 10.30am – Sala ONU
Saturday June 7 2025, 10.30am – Sala ONU
Opera meno9
A musical journey for expecting families
A project entirely dedicated to expecting families – both the parents and their arriving child.
Two workshop to discover classical music, singing and to find one’s own voice, creating a cradle of sound for the whole family.
The workshop is recommended from the fifth to the eighth month of pregnancy, when it is scientifically proven that the foetus begins to perceive and react to sounds coming from outside. Replaying the sounds perceived during gestation, especially the parents’ voices, after birth produces relaxing effects, intensifies the sound bond with the baby and promotes vocal identification.
The workshop is held in Italian and a basic knowledge of the language is strongly advised.
Tickets
1 participant to 1 workshop € 10,00
1 participant to 2 workshops € 16,00
2 participants 1 workshop € 16,00
2 participants 2 workshops € 30,00
The project
Workshop practical info
The Opera minus 9 project includes two workshop meetings in comfortable spaces, where activities of musical listening, vocal experimentation and discussion are proposed. Mothers and their companions can attend one workshop or both:
Workshop 1 (31 May): a guided listening session of live classical music, proposing interesting listening activities to be repeated at home during the months of pregnancy, a magical experience in contact with musical instruments and their vibrations;
Workshop 2 (7 June): a music and movement workshop with practical tips for playing with music in the family in the first months of life.
Poster
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Sunday May 3 2026, 7.30pm – Church “Nostra Signora delle Nazioni in S. Eugenio Papa”
The Massimo for the City of Palermo – The Teatro Massimo Chorus
Conductor Salvatore Punturo
Teatro Massimo Chorus
Teatro Massimo Youth Chorus
Piano Claudio Marchetti
Free entrance
Programme
Gioachino Rossini
Trois choeurs religieux for solo soprano, chorus and piano
1. La Foi
2. L’Espérance 3. La Charité
Soprano Martina Bianculli
Gaetano Donizetti
“Che interminabile andirivieni” from Don Pasquale
Giuseppe Verdi
“Noi siamo zingarelle” e “Di Madride noi siam mattadori” from La traviata
Witches’ Choruses from Macbeth: “Che faceste” – “S’allontanarono” – “Tre volte miagola”
Pëtr Il’ič Čajkovskij
Female Peasants’ Chorus from Evgenij Onegin
Ruggero Leoncavallo
“Don din! Don din!” Chorus from Pagliacci
Gioachino Rossini
“Conciosiacosacchè” Don Magnifico’s aria from Cenerentola
Baritone Cosimo Diano
Georges Bizet
“Dans l’air nous suivons des yeux” and “Au secours”, from Carmen
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Sunday, June 6 2021, 07:00 pm
Conductor Henrik Nánási
Teatro Massimo Orchestra
Programme
Edward Elgar
Enigma Variations op. 36
Béla Bartók
Concerto for orchestra Sz. 116
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