About
This event is in Italian.
Free entrance
You can access the Sala Onu through the stairs located in the stage door area (on the right side of the main entrance, close to Via Pignatelli Aragona).
An accessible pathway, with no steps and the elevator, is also available (ask the staff for guidance).
The presentations are organized by Associazione Amici del Teatro Massimo.
Programme
Dario Oliveri
presents Lady, Be Good by George Gershwin.
About
This event is in Italian.
Free entrance
You can access the Sala Onu through the stairs located in the stage door area (on the right side of the main entrance, close to Via Pignatelli Aragona). An accessible pathway, with no steps and the elevator, is also available (ask the staff for guidance).
The presentations are organized by the Associazione Amici del Teatro Massimo.
Programme
Vito Lentini
presents Giselle by Adolphe-Charles Adam.
Vito Lentini is a lecturer in Philosophy and Human Sciences and teaches Pedagogy and History of Dance at the Accademia Teatro alla Scala. He is a research fellow at the University of Turin and participates in a research project of the Department of Cultural and Environmental Heritage of the University of Milan studying, in collaboration with Prof. Alberto Bentoglio, the archive of Luciana Novaro kept at the APICE Functional Centre. Interested in the developments of choreographic art between the 19th and 20th centuries, he has devoted his attention to research on choreography from across the Channel and the Nureyev repertoire. He is an essayist, and he also lectures and writes about dance and ballet in the theatre programmes of various Italian and foreign theatres, including La Scala in Milan, the Teatro Regio in Turin, the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, the Teatro Filarmonico and the Arena in Verona, the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm and the National Theatre in Prague. A journalist, he has been editor-in-chief of the magazine Sipario for twelve years and writes about dance in the magazine La Scala and in the culture pages of the online editorial office of Il Sole 24 Ore.
Poster
About
This event is in Italian.
Free entrance
You can access the Sala Onu through the stairs located in the stage door area (on the right side of the main entrance, close to Via Pignatelli Aragona).
An accessible pathway, with no steps and the elevator, is also available (ask the staff for guidance).
The concert presentations are organized by Associazione Amici del Teatro Massimo
Relatore
Ilaria Grippaudo
presents the Concerto Nánási/Strauss.
About
This event is in Italian.
Free entrance
You can access the Sala Onu through the stairs located in the stage door area (on the right side of the main entrance, close to Via Pignatelli Aragona).
An accessible pathway, with no steps and the elevator, is also available (ask the staff for guidance).
The presentations are organized by Associazione Amici del Teatro Massimo.
Programme
Lucio Tufano
presents Turandot by Giacomo Puccini.
About
Tuesday November 18 2025, 6pm
Anna Giust presents the diptych Aleko/Pagliacci, opening of the 2025/26 Season.
This event is in Italian.
Free entrance
You can access the Sala Onu through the stairs located in the stage door area (on the right side of the main entrance, close to Via Pignatelli Aragona). An accessible pathway, with no steps and the elevator, is also available (ask the staff for guidance).
The presentations are organized by the Associazione Amici del Teatro Massimo.
The speaker
Anna Giust
teaches Russian language and literature at the University of Verona. In the field of music, she conducts research on the Russian opera repertoire as a vehicle for interpreting the cultural history of that country in relation to the evolution of European culture. At the same time, she is interested in the musical relations between Europe and Russia, in particular the phenomenon of the reception of Italian and French opera, and the mobility of artists to and from Russia. She is the author of several articles on Russian musical theatre from the 18th to the 21st century, and of three monographs: Ivan Susanin by Catterino Cavos, Un’opera russa prima dell’Opera russa (EDT-De Sono Tesi, Turin 2011), Cercando l’opera russa, La formazione di una coscienza nazionale nel teatro musicale del Settecento (Feltrinelli-Amici della Scala, Milan 2014), and La forza dell’amore, dell’odio e del destino: Verdi e l’opera italiana in Russia (Istituto Nazionale di Studi Verdiani, Parma 2024). He also edited the critical edition of the opera Ivan Susanin by Catterino Cavos and Aleksandr Šachovskoj (SEdM, Rome 2024).
The poster
About
This event is in Italian.
Free entrance
You can access the Sala Onu through the stairs located in the stage door area (on the right side of the main entrance, close to Via Pignatelli Aragona).
An accessible pathway, with no steps and the elevator, is also available (ask the staff for guidance).
The presentations are organized by Associazione Amici del Teatro Massimo.
Programme
Vincenzo Borghetti
presents Elisabetta regina d’Inghilterra (Elizabeth, Queen of England) by Gioachino Rossini.
About
Wednesday December 10 2025, 6pm – Sala ONU
This event is in Italian.
Free entrance
You can access the Sala Onu through the stairs located in the stage door area (on the right side of the main entrance, close to Via Pignatelli Aragona).
An accessible pathway, with no steps and the elevator, is also available (ask the staff for guidance).
The presentations are organized by Associazione Amici del Teatro Massimo.
Programme
Ilaria Grippaudo
presents La bohème by Giacomo Puccini
Event Info
Invitation to Listening for Quattro canti per Santa Rosalia
This conference is in Italian.
Free entrance
Saint Rosalia is the patron saint of Palermo and has been worshipped over the centuries not only through religious events but also by spectacular events in baroque style, in which music often played a leading role.
“4 Canti per Santa Rosalia” opens the 2024 Summer events of the Teatro Massimo, making a link with these events thanks to new music, commissioned to four composers. Together with the creators of the show and experts in the history of music in Palermo in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries we will take a journey through time to rediscover an ancient tradition.
You can access the Sala Onu through the stairs located in the stage door area (on the right side of the main entrance, close to Via Pignatelli Aragona).
An accessible pathway, with no steps and the elevator, is also available (ask the staff for guidance).
The presentations are organized by Associazione Amici del Teatro Massimo.
Speakers
Speakers
Giuseppe Collisani, Consuelo Giglio, Ilaria Grippaudo, Fabrizio Lupo
Moderator
Anna Tedesco
About
Friday, February 13 2026, 6 pm – Sala ONU
This event is in Italian.
Free entrance
You can access the Sala Onu through the stairs located in the stage door area (on the right side of the main entrance, close to Via Pignatelli Aragona). An accessible pathway, with no steps and the elevator, is also available (ask the staff for guidance).
The presentations are organized by the Associazione Amici del Teatro Massimo.
Programme
Anna Tedesco
talks about Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell