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Saturday, March 7 and Sunday, March 8 2026 | Sala ONU
InCanto di donna
Teatro Massimo Cantoria
Chorus Master Giuseppe Ricotta
Tickets
Full price: 10 €
Concession: 8 €
Students: 4 €
Programme
Music by
Franz Schubert, Gabriel Faurè, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Giacomo Puccini, Karl Jenkins, John Rutter, Leonard Choen, Giuseppe Ricotta
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January 26 2026 at 9pm| Main Stage
La coperta di Ruth
(Storia di un’ebrea)
Performed by the theater company Il tesoro ritrovato
Director and author Giovanna Allotta
Anna Cane presents the performance.
This show is in Italian; a basic understanding of the language is adviced.
Under the Patronage of the Assemblea Regionale Siciliana
Tickets
A voluntary donation is requested to attend the show.
For further information, please call +39 350 1979252.
Sullo spettacolo
Presentazione
La coperta di Ruth (Ruth’s Blanket) stages the drama of the Shoah with strong emotions and profound reflections on the themes of racial discrimination and human suffering.
The story is set during the period of anti-Semitism and describes the human spirit of those who, prisoners and victims of Nazism, lived part of their lives between life and death.
The theater company also includes actors with disabilities, whose presence and talent are a concrete example that limitations can be overcome and diversity can become a strength.
The proceeds from the evening will be used to support the association’s activities aimed at children with disabilities.
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Saturday 16 May 2026 at 6.00 pm – Sala ONU
Sacrificing the Sacred
The demolition of religious complexes to make way for the construction of the Teatro Massimo in Palermo (1868–1897)
Lecture by Flaminia Ferlito, PhD in Analysis and Management of Artistic Heritage at the IMT School for Advanced Studies in Lucca
In collaboration with Palazzo Butera Foundation
and Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History
The lecture is held in Italian. Free admission subject to availability
Programme
Find out more
From 1875 onwards, in the heart of Palermo’s historic centre, an entire neighbourhood was radically redesigned to make way for a symbol destined to embody modernity and the rise of the Italian middle class: the Teatro Massimo, which was inaugurated with great pomp on 16 May 1897. Within a few years, four religious complexes – San Francesco alle Stimmate, San Giuliano, Sant’Agata alle Mura and Santa Marta – along with their architecture, art collections and communities deeply rooted in the local area. Yet not everything was lost. Through a critical reinterpretation of the events and the analysis of unpublished archival sources, traces emerge of an extraordinary heritage that had long remained scattered.
Works, fragments and memories resurface from a history of only apparent obliteration: a case in point is Giacomo Serpotta’s extraordinary stucco work, now preserved at the Oratorio dei Bianchi, bearing witness to an artistic legacy which, though stripped of its original context, continues to recount the complexity of that transformation.
The conference thus offers, exactly 129 years after the inauguration of the Teatro Massimo, a fresh perspective on one of the most profound urban metamorphoses of nineteenth-century Palermo, bringing to light what existed before the Teatro Massimo and restoring a voice to an urban, artistic and human fabric which, though transformed, continues to live on in its traces and in the city’s memory.
Flaminia Ferlito is an art historian and holds a PhD in Analysis and Management of Artistic Heritage from the IMT School for Advanced Studies in Lucca. Her research focuses on Italy’s religious heritage, with particular attention to the ways in which it was managed, protected, dispersed and introduced into the international art market in the period following the unification of Italy. During her research in 2025, she was a pre-doctoral fellow at the Hertziana Library in Rome, in the department headed by Tanja Michalsky, where she was able to study the complex relationships surrounding the demolition of religious complexes to make way for the construction of the Teatro Massimo in Palermo. In 2024, she was a visiting researcher at Columbia University in New York, whilst in 2023 she served as a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley.
The poster
Info
Creative cast
Creative direction Luca Pintacuda
Artistic direction Antonino Serafino
Screenplay Fabrizio Pedone
Music and live performances Giulia Tagliavia, Giovanni Magaglio
Interaction Design Alessandro Disingrini, Albert Julius Cabri
Designers Lidia Falletta, Serena Pantaleo, Claudia Rago, John Mark Poultry, Rosaria Gallè
Tickets
Biglietti
Full price €12 + €8 guided tour
Reduced (under 26 and card under 35) €8 + €6 guided tour
Reduced price for school groups €4 + €3 guided tour
Free: one accompanying teacher for every 10 students, H students and their support teachers
It is also possible to purchase the show only (without the guided tour)
Gallery
Highlights
An experience in which the public will find itself surrounded by projections, lights, music; a one-of-a-kind show in which the stages, the ceiling and the holographic sheets become the projection surfaces on which the narrative develops. Over the centuries, the harmonies and disharmonies of nature have inspired musicians and composers who have tried to translate into music the alternation of the seasons, the noises produced by natural phenomena, by living beings, by the movements of the cosmos. “Sounds in Extinction” questions and questions the viewer on the relationship between music, art and the natural environment, and on the evolution of this relationship in relation to a world that is increasingly artificial, urban, virtual and the danger of the progressive disappearance of entire ecosystems.
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Dates
- 19 December11:00 AMTeatro Massimo19 December12:00 PMTeatro Massimo21 December11:00 AMTeatro Massimo21 December12:00 PMTeatro Massimo22 December11:00 AMTeatro Massimo22 December12:00 PMTeatro Massimo23 December11:00 AMTeatro Massimo23 December8:30 PMTeatro Massimo27 December5:00 PMTeatro Massimo27 December6:30 PMTeatro Massimo
About
December 3-14, 2024 | Sala ONU
5 to 10 years old | Reservations from October 7, 2024
Dramaturgy Silvia Ajelli
With music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Original music, arrangements and transcriptions by Simone Piraino
Conductor Michele De Luca
Scene Elements Stefano Canzoneri
Costumes Marja HoffmannTeatro Massimo Orchestra
A production of the Teatro Massimo di PalermoCast
Amadè Silvia Ajelli
Papageno/Commendatore/Figaro Giuseppe Esposito (3, 5, 10, 12, 14) / Mariano Orozco (4, 6, 7, 11, 13)
Papagena/Donna Elvira/Susanna Martina Mazzola (3, 5, 10, 11, 14) / Federica Foresta (4, 6, 7, 12, 13)Tickets
Students 4 €
Full price 10 €
Reduced price 8 €
For more informationProgramme
The plot
The show introduces the young audience to the discovery of Mozart’s life and his music through encounters with the most famous characters from his works, in a theatrical play that mixes life and theatre.
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.
Sat performances are open to everyone.
HERE all information (in Italian) about the Educational project for schools.
Poster
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Dates
- 3 December10:00 AMSchool-Groups Event3 December11:30 AMSchool-Groups Event4 December10:00 AMSchool-Groups Event4 December11:30 AMSchool-Groups Event5 December10:00 AMSchool-Groups Event5 December11:30 AMSchool-Groups Event6 December10:00 AMSchool-Groups Event6 December11:30 AMSchool-Groups Event7 December11:00 AMFamily Event7 December5:00 PMFamily Event10 December10:00 AMSchool-Groups Event10 December11:30 AMSchool-Groups Event11 December10:00 AMSchool-Groups Event11 December11:30 AMSchool-Groups Event12 December10:00 AMSchool-Groups Event12 December11:30 AMSchool-Groups Event13 December10:00 AMSchool-Groups Event13 December11:30 AMSchool-Groups Event14 December11:00 AMFamily Event14 December5:00 PMFamily Event
Info
17 – 19 December |Main Stage
Falstaff
Burattini e burle
Based on Falstaff di Giuseppe Verdi
Music Dramaturgy Anna Pedrazzini
Dramaturgy and Direction Nadia MilaniA new production of AsLiCo
Opera kids – XVI editionRunning time: 50 minutes
For children aged 5 – 8
Tickets
Full price: 12 €
Concession: 10 €
Students: 5 €
Free entrance for 1 teacher every 10 students, students with disabilities and their support teachersAbout
The plot
Falstaff is an old, light-hearted puppeteer who, short of money, devises stratagems and intrigues to survive.
His puppets and marionettes, together with the children of the audience, laugh and enjoy themselves at his clumsy tricks, then help him put things right.
We thus enter a timeless world populated by masks, puppets and marionettes, which recalls photographs of times past with the vividness of the present.
A world where everything is a joke (tutto è burla)!
Spoken parts of the performance are in Italian; a basic understanding of the language is adviced.
This event is part of the Educational Programme of the Teatro Massimo 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.
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
Ilaria Grippaudo
presents the ballet Cenerentola (Cinderella), choreographed to music by Sergei Prokofiev.
Info
From 15 to 20 October 2021
AuditoriumVincenzo Bellini
Il pirata
Conductor Francesco Lanzillotta
Director and Scene Designs Luigi Di Gangi e Ugo Giacomazzi
Costume Designs Isabella Rizza
Lighting Designs Luigi Biondi
Scene Designs Assistant Chiara Mirabella
Costume Designs Assistant Tatiana Lerario
Chorus Master Ciro Visco
A new Teatro Massimo productionLive Streaming on the Teatro Massimo WebTv on October 15
Teatro Massimo Orchestra and Chorus
Cast
Cast
Ernesto Vittorio Prato (15, 17, 20) / Francesco Vultaggio (19)
Imogene Roberta Mantegna (15, 17, 20) / Marta Torbidoni (19)
Gualtiero Celso Albelo (15, 17, 20) / Giorgio Misseri (19)
Itulbo Motoharu Takei
Goffredo Giovanni Battista Parodi
Adele Natalia GavrilanGallery
New Guidelines for the Audience
Please take a few minutes to read the new safety and health guidelines linked to the Covid-19 emergency. Bear in mind that a Digital Covid Certificate (green pass) is required 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. 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, 2020 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 are reserved for people with disabilities and their companions for each performance (at the fare of section 6) - check with the box-office for further info.
You will be required to show your ID/certificate to get concession prices.Photo © Rosellina Garbo
Photo © Franco Lannino
