About
March 20 – 23 2024 | Main Stage, Teatro Massimo
by Venti Lucenti
inspired by Richard Wagner‘s Tristan und Isolde
Written and directed by Manu Lalli
Assistant Director Chiara Casalbuoni
Original music, arrangements and transcriptions Simone Piraino
Conductor Daniele Malinverno (March 20, 22) / Michele De Luca (March 21)
Voce dal mare Natasa Kátai (March 21) / Maria Cristina Napoli (March 20, 22)
Narrators Pietro Massaro and Oriana Martucci
Teatro Massimo Orchestra and Chorus
Chorus Master Salvatore Punturo
with pupils and teachers of the schools IC Alessandra Siragusa and Istituto Minutoli Ecoscuola
For audiences aged 6 to 12 | Reservations from January 10th
Photographs Franco Lannino
Tickets
Students 5 €
Full price 12 €
Reduced price 10 €
For more information
Programme
The plot
The legend of Tristan and Isolde, one of the most romantic stories of the Middle Ages, is very old: it tells the adventures of a knight and a princess who fall in love thanks to a magic elixir. Wagner composed the opera based on Goffredo di Strasburgo’s text and staged it in 1865. It is still considered one of the masterpieces of all time. The version that will be performed, while maintaining the essential dramaturgical and musical lines intact, is adapted in such a way as to exalt the magical and symbolic fairy-tale aspects of the story, which has at its centre important themes linked to the imaginary and ideal horizon of the world of chivalry, such as the search for love, the relationship between public morality and private morality, sin and fidelity.
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Spoken parts of the performance are in Italian; a basic understanding of the language is adviced.
Performances from Tue to Fri are events for school groups. In case seats are available to the general audience, they will be on sale on the same day of performance at the box-office.
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Dates
- 20 March10:00 AMMain Stage20 March11:45 AMMain Stage21 March10:00 AMMain Stage21 March11:45 AMMain Stage22 March10:00 AMMain Stage22 March11:45 AMMain Stage
About
20 – 22 May, 2025 | Sala ONU, Teatro Massimo
from 6 to 36 months old | Bookings from January 27, 2025
Inspired by Falstaff by Giuseppe Verdi
Musical dramaturgy Anna Pedrazzini
Direction Beatrice Baruffini
An AsLiCo production
Tickets
Students: 4 €
Full price: 10 €
Reduced price: 8 €
For further information
Programme
The plot
A ball is a belly, a head, an animal body. For play it is constantly transformed, and in between jokes, it is even possible for it to become Falstaff! Inspired by Giuseppe Verdi’s masterpiece, this very early childhood show explores play as a universal language, transporting young spectators to an enchanted universe where anything is possible. A poetic adventure that stimulates the imagination and celebrates fantasy.
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Questo è uno spettacolo per i gruppi scolastici.
Spoken parts of the performance are in Italian; a basic understanding of the language is adviced.
Performances from Tue to Fri are events for school groups. In case seats are available to the general audience, they will be on sale on the same day of performance at the box-office.
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Dates
- 20 May9:30 AMSala ONU20 May11:00 AMSala ONU21 May9:30 AMSala ONU21 May11:00 AMSala ONU22 May9:30 AMSala ONU22 May11:00 AMSala ONU
About
Saturday 9 and Sunday 24 May – 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 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 workshop is recommended from the fifth to the eighth month of pregnancy, when it has been scientifically proven that the fetus begins to perceive and react to sounds coming from outside. Reproducing the sounds perceived during gestation, especially the voices of the parents, after birth, produces relaxing effects, intensifies the sound bond with the baby, and promotes vocal identification.
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Dates
- 9 May10:30 AMSala ONU24 May10:30 AMSala ONU
About
This event is in Italian.
Tickets (3 euros) available at the box-office and online.
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).
Photo Fausto Brigantino
Programme
Beatrice Monroy
presents Turandot by Giacomo Puccini with Giuseppe Cutino and Sabrina Petyx.
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Dates
- 17 September6:00 PMSala Onu
About
May 30, 2024, 8:30 pm | Main Stage, Teatro Massimo
Reciting voice Alessandro Quasimodo
Piano Cinzia Pennesi
Clarinet Sauro Berti
Piano Naomi Fujiya
Two pianos Marco Sollini and Salvatore Barbatano
Narrator Giovanni Moschella
Director Filippo Jacobsson
Palermo remembers Franco Mannino on the centenary of his birth with a series of events that will touch places of music and places of the heart.
The evening will feature excellent artists who knew him, loved him, worked and collaborated with him, played his music-in short, had the good fortune to traverse his harmonious and wonderful world.
Tickets 10 – 35 €
All proceeds from the concert will be donated to the NOT abili- MOVODI onlus Association of Palermo.
Programme
Franco Mannino
Sicily op. 621 on a text by Salvatore Quasimodo
for reciting voice and piano
Franco Mannino
Nostra Signora del Sud op. 469/502 on texts by Melo Freni
for reciting voice and piano
– Island
– Journey to the South
– The Route of Ulysses
– Without half words
– The song of the island
Franco Mannino
I gatti op.508 on a text by Melo Freni
for reciting voice and piano
Franco Mannino
Sonata op. 115 no. 3
for piano
Franco Mannino
Italian Suite op. 408
for clarinet and piano
– Giga
– Aria
– Gagliarda
Franco Mannino
Paraphrase from “Vivì” op. 412
for two pianos
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Dates
- 30 May8:30 PMMain Stage
About
SOLD OUT
Sotto una nuova luce
Conductor Daniele Gatti
Teatro Massimo Orchestra
Live streaming on Teatro Massimo WebTV
Programme
Ludwig van Beethoven
Egmont, Ouverture op. 84
Symphony No. 1 in C major op. 21
Symphony No. 6 in F major op. 68
New Guidelines for the Audience
Upon reopening in June 2020, the Teatro Massimo has established new safety and health guidelines for the people who will access the theatre during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Please read them before purchasing your tickets.
Where to buy your tickets
Tickets on sale at at the Box-office, through the call center and online on TicketOne.it
Concessions
Young people under 26 anni, Under35 Card holders, 2020 subscribers, 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. People with disabilities and their companions can access accessible seats in section 1 at the concession price for section 2 seats. All donors #iorinuncioalrimborso are granted the Under35 discount for the "Sotto una nuova luce" performances. If purchasing a concession priced ticket please bring proof of eligibility with you.
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Dates
- 2 October8:30 PMTeatro Massimo, Auditorium
Orario
20 gennaio 2023
ore 19:50 sulla WebTV del Teatro
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Dates
- 20 January7:50 PMWebTv del Teatro
About
This event is in Italian.
Tickets (3 euros) available at the box-office and online.
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).
Programme
Beatrice Monroy
presents Mitridate Eupatore by Alessandro Scarlatti with Gigi Borruso and Stefania Blandeburgo
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Dates
- 2 October6:30 PMSala Onu
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

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Dates
- 18 November6:00 PMSala Onu
