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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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Sunday December 21 2025 | Sala ONU
A magical Christmas – SuperOttoni
Brass and percussion ensemble of the Massimo Youth Orchestra
Tickets
Full price: 10 €
Concession: 8 €
Students: 4 €
Programme
Music by
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Vincenzo Bellini, Giacomo Puccini, Richard Wagner, Franz Gruber,
James Lord Pierpont, Leroy Anderson, Salvatore Nogara
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Ph. Franco Lannino
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Thursday December 18 2025 at 5pm – Sala ONU
Final Concert of the Accademia Lirica Teatro Massimo
directed by Maestro Pietro Ballo
Students of the Accademia lirica Teatro Massimo
Piano Eufemia Manfredi
Tickets
Full price: 10 €
Concession: 8 €
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Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
“Largo al factotum” from The barber of Seville
Baritone Guo Xiaotong
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
“La mia letizia infondere” from I lombardi alla prima crociata
Tenor Shangkun Xiang
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
“Tu che di gel sei cinta” from Turandot
Soprano Anna Ryabenkaya
Giuseppe Verdi
“Ritorna vincitor!” from Aida
Soprano Mariagiorgia Caccamo
Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
“Cruda, funesta smania” from Lucia di Lammermoor
Baritone Guo Xiaotong
Giacomo Puccini
“Vissi d’arte” from Tosca
Soprano Mariagiorgia Caccamo
Giacomo Puccini
“Quando men vo” from La bohème
Soprano Norma Sereni
Giacomo Puccini
“Donde lieta uscì” from La bohème
Soprano Anna Ryabenkaya
Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945)
“Voi lo sapete, o mamma” from Cavalleria rusticana
Soprano Mariagiorgia Caccamo
Johann Strauss figlio (1825-1899)
“Mein Herr Marquis” from Die Fledermaus
Soprano Norma Sereni
Franz Lehár (1870-1948)
“Dein ist mein ganzes Herz” from Das Land des Lächelns
Tenor Shangkun Xiang
Franz Lehár
Romanza della Vilja from La vedova allegra
Soprano Anna Ryabenkaya
Franz Lehár
“Lippen schweigen” from La vedova allegra
Soprano Anna Ryabenkaya
Tenor Shangkun Xiang
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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.
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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
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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.
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Saturday 4 July 2026 at 7 pm | Sala degli Stemmi
Piano Young – Pianists from the youth ensembles
Music by J. S. Bach, W. A. Mozart, L. van Beethoven, F. Chopin
This concert is included in the training and artistic growth of the Youth Ensembles of the Teatro Massimo
Tickets
Tickets
Booking opens on Friday 12 June 2026
Full price: 10 euro
Concession: 8 euro
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18 – 21 February, 2025 | Sala Grande, Teatro Massimo
from 5 to 13 years old | Bookings 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 €
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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…
Gallery
The poster
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
- 18 February10:00 AMSala Grande18 February11:45 AMSala Grande19 February10:00 AMSala Grande19 February11:45 AMSala Grande20 February10:00 AMSala Grande20 February11:45 AMSala Grande21 February10:00 AMSala Grande21 February11:45 AMSala Grande
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13 – 23 January 2026 | Sala ONU, Teatro Massimo
for students over 15 and for adult audience | School Group Bookings open on November 3, 2025
Apollo e Dafne
Music by Georg Friedrich Händel
Conductor Giacomo Biagi
Director Giuseppe Cutino
Scenes Stefano Canzoneri
Costumes Marja Hoffmann
Lighting Designs Antonio Giunta
Movements on stage Alessandra Fazzino
Assistant Director Agnese Restivo
Tickets
Full price: 10 €
Concession: 8 €
Students: 4 €
Free entrance for 1 teacher every 10 students, students with disabilities and their support teachersWe would like to inform the public that, following the weather alert and in compliance with the municipal ordinance, the performances of the opera “Apollo and Daphne” scheduled for the morning of Tuesday, 20 December (10:00 and 11:30) in the Sala ONU have been cancelled.
Programme
Cast
Cupido Alessandra Fazzino
Apollo Diego Savini (13 at 10, 14 at 11.30, 15, 17, 20 at 10, 21 at 11.30, 22 at 10, 23 at 11.30) / Francesco Bossi (13 at 11.30, 14 at 10, 16, 18, 20 at 11.30, 21 at 10, 22 at 11.30, 23 at 10)
Dafne Amélie Hois (13 at 10, 14 at 11.30, 15, 17, 20 at 10, 21 at 11.30, 22 at 10, 23 at 11.30) / Noemi Muschetti (13 at 11.30, 14 at 10, 16, 18, 20 at 11.30, 21 at 10, 22 at 11.30, 23 at 10)Teatro Massimo Orchestra
A Teatro Massimo New Production
The plot
This show updates the myth of Apollo and Daphne to reflect on gender violence.
Apollo is an arrogant and powerful head of state who, blinded by his ego, sees Daphne as a reward he is entitled to, ignoring her rejection. Cupid, here an elderly and disillusioned figure, is unable to prevent Apollo’s obsession. The story focuses on possessive love: the god pursues Daphne and tries to rape her, to the point of causing her death.
Apollo is unable to tolerate her refusal, while his grief is only a public charade.
The work is a reflection on the relevance of Ovid’s tragic ending, denouncing the inability to accept rejection and the destruction that follows.Gallery
Ph. Franco LanninoThis opera is in Italian; a basic understanding of the language is adviced.
Performances from Tue to Fri are events for school groups for students over 15 and for adult audience.
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 and Sun performances are open to the general audience.
Find out more about our Educational project for school groups.
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