About
Giacomo Puccini
Tosca
Melodrama in three acts
Conductor Valerio Galli
Director Mario Pontiggia
Scene designs and costume designs Francesco Zito
Light designer Bruno Ciulli
Assistant director Angelica Dettori
Scene assistant Antonella Conte
A Teatro Massimo Production
The premiere on Friday 29 April will be broadcast live on the Teatro’s WebTV and Repubblica.it
Cast
Cast
Tosca Anna Pirozzi (29, 3) / Chiara Isotton (30, 4)
Cavaradossi Fabio Sartori (29, 3) / Francesco Pio Galasso (30, 4)
Scarpia Amartuvshin Enkhbat (29, 3) / Roberto Frontali (30, 4)
Angelotti Gabriele Sagona
Il sagrestano Matteo Peirone
Spoletta Massimiliano Chiarolla
Sciarrone Italo Proferisce
Un carceriere Alessio Gatto Goldstein (29, 3) / Cosimo Diano (30, 4)
Un pastore Anna Costa
New Guidelines for the Audience
Please take a few minutes to read the safety and health guidelines linked to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Bear in mind that a "Strengthened" Digital Covid Certificate (green pass) and wearing a mask are compulsory to access the theatre.
Where to buy your tickets
At the Box-office, online on TicketOne.it, by calling the call centre.
Using a Voucher
You can use the voucher you received for a 2020 canceled performance to buy tickets. Vouchers are valid for 36 months after the issuing date. Please notice that vouchers issued by TicketOne and the selling points can only be used to buy online on ticketone.it. Vouchers issued by the box-office and the call center can be used at the box-office and at the call center.
Concessions
Under 26, Under35 Card holders, 2022 subscribers, #iorinuncioalrimborso donors, 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. 6 seats in the stalls (section 1) are reserved for people with disabilities and their companions for each performance (at the fare of section 7) - check with the box-office for further info.
You will be required to show your ID/certificate to get concession prices.
Photo © Rosellina Garbo
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Dates
- 29 April8:00 PMTeatro Massimo, Auditorium30 April6:30 PMTeatro Massimo, Auditorium3 May6:30 PMTeatro Massimo, Auditorium4 May6:30 PMTeatro Massimo, Auditorium
About
Pianist Pietro Spinelli – Cucina Sonora
Free admission subject to availability
September 20-22 will see the 7th edition of PIANO CITY PALERMO, the free piano festival that transforms the city into a big stage, featuring talented artists from Sicily and around the world.
Programme
Programme
Original musics
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Dates
- 20 September11:00 PMScalinata
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 L’elisir d’amore by Gaetano Donizetti with Giuseppe Cutino and Sabrina Petyx.
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Dates
- 4 April6:30 PMSala Onu
About
venerdì 3 ottobre, ore 15:00 | Sala ONU
Convegno Internazionale
Alessandro Scarlatti, il “palermitano”
Storia e fortuna a 300 anni dalla morte
III Sessione
Intorno a Mitridate Eupatore
Presiede Ilaria Grippaudo
Luca Della Libera (Conservatorio di Frosinone), Contesto, scelte musicali e
drammaturgiche nel Mitridate Eupatore
Eugenio Refini (New York University), L’artificio di Zeusi: tragedia e storia nel Mitridate
Eupatore di Frigimelica Roberti
Giada Viviani (Università di Genova), La “guerra” delle tragedie per musica: Il Mitridate
Eupatore e la rivalità tra i teatri San Giovanni Grisostomo e San Cassiano
Presentazione
Presentazione
Nel 2025 si commemorano i trecento anni dalla morte di Alessandro Scarlatti (Palermo 1660-Napoli 1725), il più importante operista italiano tra XVII e XVIII secolo. In occasione di questo anniversario, sono numerosi i concerti, i convegni e le manifestazioni che gli saranno dedicate in diversi luoghi d’Italia ed Europa.
Palermo, luogo di nascita del compositore, non poteva mancare a questo importante appuntamento.
Dal 5 al 12 ottobre verrà rappresentata al Teatro Massimo in una nuova produzione l’opera Mitridate Eupatore (eseguita per la prima volta a Venezia nel 1707). Dal 2 al 4 ottobre, in concomitanza con questa rappresentazione, si svolgerà il convegno scientifico Alessandro Scarlatti, il “palermitano”. Storia e fortuna a 300 anni dalla morte, organizzato congiuntamente con il Dipartimento di Scienze umanistiche dell’Università di Palermo, che riunisce alcuni dei più eminenti studiosi di Scarlatti, italiani e stranieri.
Rispetto alle iniziative previste altrove, quelle palermitane sottolineano il rapporto tra Scarlatti e la sua città natale, sia tracciando un quadro delle attività musicali a Palermo nella sua epoca, sia illuminando alcuni momenti della storia della sua recezione in tempi recenti, in particolare attraverso il magistero di Roberto Pagano, autore di una fondamentale biografia di Alessandro e del figlio Domenico Scarlatti nonché promotore del Festival Scarlatti tenutosi per iniziativa del Teatro Massimo a Palermo nei primi anni Duemila.
Il convegno si concluderà il 4 ottobre in Sala ONU alle 10.30 con la tavola rotonda “Mettere in scena Scarlatti oggi”, organizzata in collaborazione con l’Associazione Amici del Teatro Massimo. Artisti di grande esperienza si confronteranno sull’attualità dell’opera barocca. Partecipano il violinista e direttore d’orchestra Fabio Biondi, il cantante Filippo Mineccia, il regista Stefano Vizioli; insieme a Cecilia Ligorio, Giulio Prandi e Paolo V. Montanari rispettivamente regista, direttore e dramaturg di Mitridate Eupatore . Seguirà l’esecuzione di alcune arie dal Mitridate Eupatore con: Martina Licari (soprano), Konstantin Derri (controtenore), Giulio Falzone (tiorba) e Michele Barbieri (clavicembalo).
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Dates
- 3 October3:00 PMSala Onu
Info
Tuesday April 21 2026, 6 pm, Sala Onu
Talking about Opera – Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali
This event is in Italian.
The art of storytelling is made up of intertwined threads that open up the enchantment of listening.
Beatrice Monroy tells us the story of the opera Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali with Gigi Borruso and Stefania Blandeburgo.
Tickets (3 euros) are 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).
About
The project
Beatrice Monroy – with readings by Stefania Blandeburgo, Gigi Borruso, Rinaldo Clementi, Giuseppe Cutino, Consuelo Lupo, and Sabrina Petyx – recounts the plots of the Operas staged at the Teatro Massimo to the audience, as well as the historical and cultural references on which the librettists based their work.
Our aim is to bring to the audience the extraordinary stories that inspired the Masters to compose their masterpieces.
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Dates
- 21 April6:00 PMSala Onu
About
20 – 21 March, 2025 | Sala Grande, Teatro Massimo
from 5 to 13 years old | Booking from 25 November, 2024
Written and directed by Manu Lalli
Original music and arrangements Simone Piraino
Teatro Massimo Orchestra and Chorus
Chorus Master Salvatore Punturo
Tickets
Students 5 €
Full price 12 €
Reduced price 10 €
For more information
Programme
The plot
A funny little man descends one evening from a moonbeam and finds himself in the fascinating circus life populated by acrobats, clowns, knife throwers, ferocious animals, tamers, and lots of music…
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.
Videos by Venti Lucenti
SINGING LESSON
SCENIC MOVEMENTS
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Dates
- 20 March10:00 AMSala Grande20 March11:45 AMSala Grande21 March10:00 AMSala Grande21 March11:45 AMSala Grande
About
28-30 April 2026 |Main Stage
Aida anime di sabbia
with Giuseppe Verdi‘s music
from 8 to 14 years old | School Group Bookings from January 8 2026
Director Manu Lalli
Original music and arrangements Simone Piraino
Conductor Daniele Malinverno / Michele De Luca
Assistant Director Chiara Casalbuoni
Scene Designs Daniele Leone
Teatro Massimo Orchestra and Chorus
Chorus Master Salvatore Punturo
A Teatro Massimo New Production
Tickets
Full price: 12 €
Concession: 10 €
Students: 5 €
Free entrance for 1 teacher every 10 students, students with disabilities and their support teachers
Programme
The plot
Aida is not only a monumental opera set in an idealized Egypt, but a universal story that speaks of deep human emotions. The protagonists—Aida, Radamès, and Amneris—are young people overwhelmed by passions and ambitions greater than themselves, victims of an inexorable fate and a cruel and useless war. The opera thus becomes a reflection on love as the only way to give meaning to life.
Spoken parts of the performance are in Italian; a basic understanding of the language is adviced.
This is an event 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.
Find out more about our Educational project for school groups.
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Dates
- 28 April10:00 AMSchool-Groups Event28 April11:45 AMSchool-Groups Event29 April10:00 AMSchool-Groups Event29 April11:45 AMSchool-Groups Event30 April10:00 AMSchool-Groups Event30 April11:45 AMSchool-Groups Event
Time
April 16 2023
at 7:50pm on the Teatro Massimo WebTV
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Dates
- 16 April7:50 PMMassimo WebTv
About
Tuesday, October 17, 9pm | Monreale Cathedral
for the 65esima Settimana Internazionale di Musica Sacra
Massimo Youth Orchestra
Massimo Kids Orchestra
Conductor Michele De Luca
Organ Giovanni Battista Vaglica
Teatro Massimo Cantoria
Chorus Master Giuseppe Ricotta
Teatro Massimo Youth Chorus
Chorus Master Salvatore Punturo
Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana’s Youth Chorus
Chorus Master Riccardo Scilipoti
Free entrance subject to availability
Programme
Simone Piraino
Unum Loquuntur Omnia – Tutta la realtà proclama una cosa sola (Orchestra) – world premiere
Gabriel Fauré
Ave verum op. 65 (Children’s Choir, Organ and Orchestra)
Cantique de Jean Racine op. 11 (Children’s Choir and Organ)
Ave Maria op. 67 (Children’s Choir, Organ and Orchestra)
Maria, Mater Gratiae (Children’s Choir, Organ and Orchestra)
Giuseppe Ricotta
Veni Sancte Spiritus (Children’s Choir, Organ and Orchestra)
Frode Fjellheim
Dona nobis pacem (Children’s Choir and Orchestra)
John Rutter
What sweeter music (Children’s Choir and Orchestra)
Riccardo Scilipoti
Gloria (Children’s Choir, Organ and Orchestra) – world premiere
Marcel Dupré
Cortège et Litanie op. 19, n. 2 for organ and orchestra
Giuseppe Ricotta
Contemporary Mass n° 1 Anima Mundi
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Dates
- 14 October9:00 PMMonreale Cathedral