About
5 – 17 November 2024 | Sala Onu
from 10 to 16 years old | Reservations from September 24, 2024
Libretto by Tommaso Mariani
Music by Giovanni Battista Martini
First performance in Palermo
Conductor and harpsichord Luca Quintavalle
Direction Lollo Franco
Dramaturgy Lollo Franco and Nicola Franco
Set design and costumes Emilia Gagliardotto
Lighting Designs Antonio Giunta
Don Quixote Simone Fenotti / Samuele Di Leo
Nerina Michela Guarrera / Marta Di Stefano
Sancho Panza Nicola Franco
Cervantes Lollo Franco
Teatro Massimo Orchestra
New production of the Teatro Massimo
Tickets
Full price: 10 €
Concession price: 8 €
Students: 4 €
For further information
Programme
The plot
In 1600s Spain, a man fascinated by epic tales of chivalry and scornful of danger, imagines himself to be the knight Don Quixote committed, along with his squire Sancho Panza, to protect the people from injustice… starting from this incipit, author Miguel de Cervantes (played by Lollo Franco) will tell a new adventure of his characters, to the music of the 1746 intermezzo by Giovanni Battista Martini.
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.
Saturday and Sunday performances are open to all.
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Dates
- 5 November10:00 AMSchool-Groups Event5 November11:30 AMSchool-Groups Event6 November10:00 AMSchool-Groups Event6 November11:30 AMSchool-Groups Event7 November10:00 AMSchool-Groups Event7 November11:30 AMSchool-Groups Event8 November10:00 AMSchool-Groups Event8 November11:30 AMSchool-Groups Event9 November5:00 PMFamily Event10 November5:00 PMFamily Event12 November10:00 AMSchool-Groups Event12 November11:30 AMSchool-Groups Event13 November10:00 AMSchool-Groups Event13 November11:30 AMSchool-Groups Event14 November10:00 AMSchool-Groups Event14 November11:30 AMSchool-Groups Event15 November10:00 AMSchool-Groups Event15 November11:30 AMSchool-Groups Event16 November5:00 PMFamily Event17 November5:00 PMFamily Event
About
2 – 14 December 2025 | Sala ONU, Teatro Massimo
Il 66
Il biglietto vincenteby Jacques Offenbach
from 8 to 15 years old | School Group Bookings open on October 22, 2025
Libretto Auguste Pittaud de Forges and Laurencin
Conductor and orchestrator Alberto Maniaci
Director, translation into Italian and adaptation of dialogues Salvatore Cannova
Rhythmic translation Paolo V. Montanari and Salvatore Cannova
Scene Designs Roberto Tusa
Costume Designs Giusy Di Trapani
Assistant Director Elena Snidero
Lighting Designs Vincenzo Traina
Frantz Samuele Di Leo (2, 4, 7, 9, 11, 13) / Alfonso Zambuto (3, 5, 6, 10, 12, 14)
Grittly Fabiola Galati (2, 4, 6, 9, 11, 13) / Federica Foresta (3, 5, 7, 10, 12, 14)
Berthold Nicola Ciancio (2, 4, 6, 9, 11, 13) / Giovanni Palminteri (3, 5, 7, 10, 12, 14)Tickets
Full price: 10 €
Students: 4 €
Free entrance for 1 teacher every 10 students, students with disabilities and their support teachersCast & Plot
Cast
Frantz Samuele Di Leo (2, 4, 6, 9, 11, 13) / Alfonso Zambuto (3, 5, 7, 10, 12, 14)
Grittly Fabiola Galati (2, 4, 6, 9, 11, 13) / Federica Foresta (3, 5, 7, 10, 12, 14)
Berthold Giovanni Palminteri (2, 4, 6, 9, 11, 13) / Nicola Ciancio (3, 5, 7, 10, 12, 14)The plot
Frantz and Grittly are two young Tyroleans on their way to Strasbourg in search of a better life. Their encounter with the merchant Bertoldo sweeps them up in a whirlwind of misunderstandings, promises, and lies: everything revolves around a lottery ticket, a symbol of easy (and deceptive) fortune. Amid laughter and twists and turns, the show invites us to reflect on how fragile dreams of wealth are and how solid human bonds and the truth of feelings are.
Spoken and sung 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 and Sun performances are open to everyone.
Find out more about our Educational project for school groups.
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Dates
- 2 December10:00 AMSchool-Groups Event2 December11:30 AMSchool-Groups Event3 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 December5:30 PMFamily Event7 December11:30 AMFamily Event9 December10:00 AMSchool-Groups Event9 December11:30 AMSchool-Groups 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 December4:30 PMFamily Event14 December11:30 AMFamily Event
WebTV
Orario
May 19 2023
at 7:50pm on the Teatro Massimo WebTV
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Dates
- 19 May7:50 PMMassimo WebTv
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
Carlo Fiore
presentsI Capuleti e I Montecchi by Vincenzo Bellini.
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Dates
- 18 November6:00 PMSala Onu
Event Info
Invitation to Listening for Quattro canti per Santa Rosalia
This conference is in Italian.
Free entrance
Saint Rosalia is the patron saint of Palermo and has been worshipped over the centuries not only through religious events but also by spectacular events in baroque style, in which music often played a leading role.
“4 Canti per Santa Rosalia” opens the 2024 Summer events of the Teatro Massimo, making a link with these events thanks to new music, commissioned to four composers. Together with the creators of the show and experts in the history of music in Palermo in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries we will take a journey through time to rediscover an ancient tradition.
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.
Speakers
Speakers
Giuseppe Collisani, Consuelo Giglio, Ilaria Grippaudo, Fabrizio Lupo
Moderator
Anna Tedesco
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Dates
- 4 June6:00 PMSala Onu
About
Duomo di Monreale
Conductor Ciro Visco
Soprano Federica Guida
Teatro Massimo Orchestra and ChorusConcept and Broadcasting co-ordinator Gery Palazzotto
Television Producer Antonio Di GiovanniProgramme
Anonimo
Adeste Fideles
Gli angeli delle campagneFranz Xaver Gruber
Stille Nacht
Cesar Franck
Panis angelicus
Johann Sebastian Bach
Jesus bleibet meine Freude
Giulio Caccini
Ave Maria
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ave Verum Corpus
Laudate Dominum
Irving Berlin
White Christmas
Carmine Giordano
Dormi, benigne Jesu
Georg Friedrich Händel
Hallelujah da Messiah
Raffaele Cimmaruta
Ave Maria
Photo © Franco Lannino
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Dates
- 18 December8:00 PMDuomo di Monreale
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
Vincenzo Borghetti
presents Le Grand Macabre by György Ligeti.
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Dates
- 23 November6:00 PMSala Onu
About
19 January 2025, 11 a.m. | Sala Onu
Clarinet Quartet of the Massimo Youth Orchestra
Clarinets Antonio Nogara, Antonio Santoro, Giuseppe Ossino
Bass Clarinet Pietro VegaConcert included in the training and artistic growth of the Youth Ensembles of the Teatro Massimo Foundation
Full price: 10€ / Concession: 8
Biglietti
Salvatore Nogara
Kids Tango
Michele Mangani
Rossinimania
Giacomo Puccini
“Un bel dì vedremo” da Madama Butterfly
Giacomo Puccini
“O mio babbino caro” da Gianni Schicchi
Jacob de Haan
Ross Roy
Carlos Gardel
Por una cabeza
Georges Bizet
Carmen Suite
Leonard Bernstein
“America” da West Side Story
Ennio Morricone
Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (SE)
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Dates
- 19 January11:00 AMSala ONU
About
The historic Magazine published by La Biennale di Venezia, brought back to life after 53 years of silence
A greeting from Marco Betta
General Manager of the Teatro MassimoPresentation by Debora Rossi
Manager of the Historical Archive of the BiennalePietrangelo Buttafuoco
President of the Venice BiennaleFree entrance
Recommended booking by writing to info.asac@labiennale.orgAccess to the Hall of Coats of Arms will be through the main entrance (Piazza Verdi).
The Hall can also be reached via the accessible path without steps with elevator (upon arrival in the Theatre contact the staff for more information).The Magazine
Presentation
Reborn after 53 years since its last publication, the Journal is part of the activities of the Historical Archive of the Biennale. Conceived and produced exclusively in print, the Magazine features a significant iconographic apparatus that draws largely from the Historical Archive of La Biennale and from national and international photographic research. Published quarterly, each issue will be monographic in focus, establishing a dialogue between the disciplines that distinguish La Biennale di Venezia – visual arts, architecture, dance, music, theatre, cinema – while also venturing into the realms of science and literature. .
Interventions, testimonies, interviews, dialogues and unpublished and exclusive contributions are signed by artists, scholars and important figures of the cultural panorama and civil society, both Italian and international. Multiplicity of languages and freedom of expression characterize the Magazine, which gives ample space to graphic experimentation and contamination between different forms and codes.-
Dates
- 27 June8:00 PMSala degli Stemmi