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Please notice that the performance scheduled on May 21 has been postponed to May 23.
The tickets already bought for May 21 will still be valid for the new date.
Conductor Michele De Luca
Choirmaster Giuseppe Ricotta
Dramaturgy and direction Gianpaolo Bellanca e Myriam Leone
from an idea by Pippo Lo Manto
Music by Alberto Maniaci, Ola Gjelo, Robert W. Smith, Simone Piraino, Giuseppe Ricotta
Video projections and images Claudio Di Domenico
Sketches Christian Lanni
Pictorial realisation Christian Lanni (Selva Oscura), Giuseppe Accardo (Inferno), Candida Ilenia Scalia (Purgatorio)
Giuseppe Ciaccio (Ascension), Innocenzo Mancuso (Paradise) Set Design Department of the Fondazione Teatro Massimo
Stage movements Mariella Petrotta
Assistant director Francesco D’Amico
Compagnia Volti dal Kaos
Cantoria of the Teatro Massimo
Massimo K&Y Symphonic Band
For audiences aged 12 and over
Tickets
Performance of May 21st (for families):
10€ to 25€
Performance on May 23nd (for families):
Students 5 €
Full price 12 €
Reduced price 10 €
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Programme
Robert W. Smith
The Divine Comedy
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Saturday, April 18 and Sunday April 19, 2026 | Foyer
Opera Nica – The barber of Seville
Opera Nica – Il barbiere di Siviglia
A journey through opera, blending music and imagination
Music by Gioachino Rossini
Compiled by Antonio Guido Vella Adamo
Conductor Michele De Luca
Dramaturgy and stage movement Elisa Parrinello and Carlo Di Vita
Direction Elisa Parrinello
Chorus Master Serena Ganci
Feauturing Nico Podix guitar
Scenes Stefano Canzoneri
Costumes Elisa Parrinello, Patrizia Aiello and Marja Hoffman
Lights Vincenzo Traina
A new Teatro Ditirammu – Teatro Massimo co-production
Massimo Toys Orchestra
Ditirammu Lab’s Actors and students
Thanks to the Cassa Depositi e Prestiti group
This performance is part of the Teatro Massimo’s young musicians’ training and artistic development programme
Tickets
Full price: 10 €
Concession: 8 €
For further information
Programme
The plot
A show performed by young students, girls, boys, and teenagers guided and supported by professionals, which blends theatrical narration and musical performance in an accessible and creative language through folk opera and opera. Guided by a charismatic and engaging conductor, the young performers will bring to life scenes from famous operas such as The Elixir of Love, La Traviata, Carmen, Cavalleria Rusticana, The Marriage of Figaro, and many others.
Gallery
Spoken parts of the performance are in Italian; a basic understanding of the language is adviced.
HERE all information (in Italian) about the Educational project.
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Sabato 16 e domenica 17 maggio 2026 | Foyer
Ottoni all’Opera
Evento per il 129° anniversario dell’apertura del Teatro Massimo
Ensemble Ottoni e Percussioni della Massimo Youth Orchestra
Direttore Michele De Luca
Biglietti
Intero: 10 €
Ridotto: 8 €
Studenti: 4 €
Programme
Musiche di
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Gioacchino Rossini, Vincenzo Bellini, Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini
About
Conductor Michele De Luca
Dramaturgy and Acting Paolo Migone
Massimo Kids Orchestra
Paolo Migone explains that classical music is not something incomprehensible or particularly strange, but is first and foremost music.
So why not let ourselves be moved and involved by the music of the great composers? Migone guides us into a universe unknown to many, and he does it in his own way, with absolute originality, lots of irony and without any prejudice or pretentious snobbery. The show is engaging, entertaining, enriched by slides, and in the narration four of the most incredible musicians in the history of music are associated with the four elements: Vivaldi with the water, Bach with the earth, Mozart with the air, Beethoven with the fire, as if to emphasise the indispensability of music for humanity.
Tickets: from 10€ to 25€
This performance is in Italian. A basic knowledge of the language is advised.
Programme
Music by
J. S. Bach, A. Vivaldi, W. A. Mozart, L. van Beethoven
Gallery
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February 23 2025, 11 a.m. | Sala Onu
Flute Ensemble of the Massimo Youth Orchestra
Concert included in the training and artistic growth of the Youth Ensembles of the Teatro Massimo Foundation
Full price: 10€ / Concession: 8€
Biglietti
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
Concerto n. 2 in La minore
Ernesto Köhler
Quartetto op. 92
Eugène Bozza
Jour d’été à la montagne
Felix Mendelssohn
Scherzo da Il sogno di una notte di mezza estate op. 61
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Sunday April 26 2026 | Foyer
Dreams come true
Youth Chorus Master Salvatore Punturo
Cantoria Master and piano Giuseppe Ricotta
Teatro Massimo Youth Chorus
Teatro Massimo Cantoria
Tickets
Full price: 10 €
Concession price: 8 €
Programme
Programme
CANTORIA
Beatles’ songs (arr. Giuseppe Ricotta)
Famine song (traditional)
Giuseppe Ricotta Il quaderno dei miei appunti
YOUTH CHORUS
Karl Jenkins Adiemus
Benjamin Britten Old Abram Brown da Friday Afternoons
Benjamin Britten Cuckoo from Friday Afternoons
CANTORIA AND YOUTH CHORUS
Bear McCreary This wandering day (The rings of power) (arr. Giuseppe Ricotta)
Solo Voice Simona Forte
Giuseppe Ricotta Contemporary Mass n. 2 – “Miserere Nobis”
1. Kirie
Solo Voice Simona Forte, Lara Alaimo
2. Gloria
Solo Voice Silvia Scargiali
3. Sanctus
Solo Voice Maria Vittoria Cuccia
4. Agnus Dei
Voce solista Domenico Manfrè
5. Resurrexi
Solo Voice Gloria Ilona Caronia
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Giovedì 4 giugno 2026, ore 20:30 | Sala Grande
Stagioni
Massimo Youth Orchestra
Direttore Michele De Luca
Biglietti
da 10 a 25 euro
Programme
Musiche di
Antonio Vivaldi, Astor Piazzolla
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Thursday 11 September 2025, 9.00pm – Teatro Massimo – Sala degli Stemmi
IN MEMORIAM
A call for peace, dedicated to all victims of war and massacre
A Teatro Massimo Young Pianists Recital
This free concert is included in the training and artistic development programme for youth music groups organised by the Fondazione Teatro Massimo
The concerts by youth groups are made possible thanks to the collaboration of Gruppo Cassa Depositi e Prestiti CDP
Programme
Programme
Piano Claire Monteleone
Johannes Brahms Intermezzo op. 118 No. 1
Johannes Brahms Intermezzo op. 118 No. 2
Fryderyk Chopin Notturno op. 9 No. 2 in E flat major
Claude Debussy Rêverie
Sergej Prokofiev Visions fugitives op. 22 No. 1 and No. 8
Piano Giuseppe Cinà
Fryderyk Chopin Prélude op. 28 No. 4
Fryderyk Chopin Valse op. 64 No. 2
Sergej Rachmaninov Élégie – Morceaux de fantaisie op. 3 No. 1
Sergej Rachmaninov Prélude Le campane di Mosca – Morceaux de fantaisie op. 3 No. 2
Robert Schumann Träumerei da Kinderszenen op. 15 No. 7
Franz Liszt Notturno from Liebesträume No. 3
Giacomo Puccini “Nessun Dorma” from Turandot
Cello Lorenzo Cinà
Piano Enrico Gargano
Ludwig van Beethoven Allegro con brio from the Sonata for piano No. 3 in C Major op. 2
Felix Mendelssohn Variations serieuses op. 54
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Saturday, May 9 and Sunday May 10, 2026 | Sala Onu
Opera Nica – The barber of Seville
Director Elisa Parrinello
Conductor Michele De Luca
A new Teatro Ditirammu – Teatro Massimo co-production
Ditirammu Lab’s Actors and students
Massimo Kids Orchestra
Teatro Massimo’s Children’s Chorus
Tickets
Full price: 10 €
Concession: 8 €
For further information
Programme
The plot
A show performed by young students, girls, boys, and teenagers guided and supported by professionals, which blends theatrical narration and musical performance in an accessible and creative language through folk opera and opera. Guided by a charismatic and engaging conductor, the young performers will bring to life scenes from famous operas such as The Elixir of Love, La Traviata, Carmen, Cavalleria Rusticana, The Marriage of Figaro, and many others.
Spoken parts of the performance are in Italian; a basic understanding of the language is adviced.
HERE all information (in Italian) about the Educational project.