About
March 12th, 2024, at 4:30 p.m. | Sala Onu, Teatro Massimo
Greetings by the mayor of Palermo, professor Roberto La Galla
Introduces and moderates Maurizio Rosso, former classical dancer, Teatro Massimo of Palermo
Speakers:
Giorgio Palumbo, professor of theoretical philosophy, University of Palermo
Maria Antonietta Spinosa, professor of aesthetics, Faculty of Theology of Sicily
Giuseppina D’Addelfio, professor of philosophy of education, University of Palermo
Jean Sebastian Colau, director of dance, Teatro Massimo of Palermo
Conclusions by maestro Marco Betta, superintendent Fondazione Teatro Massimo di Palermo
Admission is free subject to availability.
Access to the Sala Onu will be through the entrance with stairs located in the porter’s lodge/artists’ entrance area (Via Pignatelli Aragona side).
The hall can also be reached via the accessible step-free elevator route (upon arrival at the theater, contact the theatre staff for more information).
Programme
The dance of meaning - between ethical and aesthetic dimensions
We are human because we are involved, from top to bottom, in the game of meaning. It awakens with us every morning giving us a vital charge and, at the same time, a fruitful restlessness; it faces us richly with promise but does not spare us the burden, so many times disconcerting, of the problematic. In any case, it makes us tireless seekers of a “hidden harmony” (Heraclitus) that secretly holds the threads of the wonder and toil of existing. We carry in our innermost being the foreboding and longing for it even when we can no longer recognize the depth of this thirst; in many ways we tend, in fact, to trivialize and betray it, seduced by images of successful life inexorably condemned to disharmony. And yet the demand for meaning, even in an unexpressed way, continues to press in on us, remains a companion on our journey perhaps dormant, repressed, but never erasable. What is at stake is not the mere urge to survive, but being able to sense why it is worthwhile to send our steps forward, sustained by the right and duty to hope. What if we were called to turn them precisely into dance steps, capable of interpreting the gift-competition of being in the world to the fullest? But what call of the beautiful and the good, what interweaving of ethical passion and aesthetic passion would keep them in harmonious motion? Perhaps it is intense and generous vibrations of gratuitousness that give soul and momentum to the dance of meaning.
“The greatest fluency and strength is what a good dancer wants for nourishment-and I wouldn’t know what a philosopher’s spirit could desire more than to be a good dancer. For dance is his ideal and also his art, even, ultimately, his only religiosity, his ‘divine service’ ”
F. Nietzsche (The Gaiety of Science)
About
7 May 2023, at 18:30 |Main Stage, Teatro Massimo
Soprano Carmen Giannattasio
Tenor Pavel Petrov
Piano Giuseppe Cinà
Letter scene from Evgenij Onegin by Pëtr Il’ič Čajkovskij
Lenskij’s aria from Evgenij Onegin by Pëtr Il’ič Čajkovskij
“Ah, non credea mirarti” from La sonnambula by Vincenzo Bellini
The preview event is held to present Pyotr Il’ič Tchaikovsky’s Evgenij Onegin directed by Maestro Omer Meir Wellber, with musical interventions by the artists involved in the performance and on the occasion of the release of the book “The Navel of Dream. An Oneiric Journey” by Vittorio Lingiardi (Einaudi Editore).
Tickets 12 euros (full) / 10 euros (reduced)
An evening lecture to talk about the oneiric and to reason about the ways in which over the centuries we have tried to capture dreams as they faded away: interpreting them, first as prophecies, then as revelations of the unconscious; recording them, as neural randomness, synaptic improvisations; or simply listening to them as involuntary tales reflecting the enigma of psychic life and perhaps of our personality.
For Freud they fulfill a desire and constitute the “royal road to knowing the unconscious”; for Jung they are an autonomous manifestation of the psyche, populated with symbols and archetypes, almost an artistic product; for Bion they are a laboratory, day and night, where knowledge and meaning are generated.
No one can explain what they are for, but no one can resist the temptation to tell and question them. Dreams are like imaginal workshops that elude us and at the same time sustain us, sowing, in the fields of psyche, stories that accompany us for a day or a lifetime. We will spend two dreamlike hours together trying to answer many questions that make up one: why do we dream?
Programme
A dialogue on dreams, music, and psychoanalysis.
between Professor Vittorio Lingiardi and Maestro Omer Meir Wellber.
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 Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti with Consuelo Lupo and Rinaldo Clementi
About
This event is in Italian.
L’arte del racconto è fatta di fili intrecciati che aprono all’incanto dell’ascolto.
Beatrice Monroy tell us about the opera La traviata by Giuseppe Verdi with Stefania Blandeburgo and Gigi Borruso.
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
Tickets
3 euros
60 seats are available for this event.
Get your tickets at the box-office or online.
About
The workshop is aimed at children between the ages of 6 and 10. Cost of the workshop: €20 including snack.
A special way of sharing the theatre experience with the family: while the little ones take part in the workshop in the Sala degli Stemmi, the adults follow the opera or ballet in the Sala Grande. During the workshop, curated by Francesca Cosentino, the plot of the play is narrated, excerpts are listened to, pieces are created together, drawings are made and snacks are taken.
At the end of the workshop, children are accompanied to the Sala Grande to experience the magic of the theatre.
For information and reservations tel. 329 7260846
Programme
Francesca Cosentino
Texts and narration
Marcella Vaccarino
Theatrical animation
Giuseppe Lo Bocchiaro
Illustrations
About
The workshop is aimed at children between the ages of 6 and 10. Cost of the workshop: €20 including snack.
A special way of sharing the theatre experience with the family: while the little ones take part in the workshop in the Sala degli Stemmi, the adults follow the opera or ballet in the Sala Grande. During the workshop, curated by Francesca Cosentino, the plot of the play is narrated, excerpts are listened to, pieces are created together, drawings are made and snacks are taken.
At the end of the workshop, children are accompanied to the Sala Grande to experience the magic of the theatre.
For information and reservations tel. 329 7260846
Programme
Chicca Cosentino
Texts and narration
Gisella Vitrano
Theatrical animation
Sonia Sala
Sung interventions
Giuseppe Lo Bocchiaro
Illustrations
About
The workshop is aimed at children between the ages of 6 and 10. Cost of the workshop: €20 including snack.
A special way of sharing the theatre experience with the family: while the little ones take part in the workshop in the Sala degli Stemmi, the adults follow the opera or ballet in the Sala Grande. During the workshop, curated by Francesca Cosentino, the plot of the play is narrated, excerpts are listened to, pieces are created together, drawings are made and snacks are taken.
At the end of the workshop, children are accompanied to the Sala Grande to experience the magic of the theatre.
For information and reservations tel. 329 7260846
Programme
Chicca Cosentino
Texts and narration
Gisella Vitrano
Theatrical animation
Sonia Sala
Sung interventions
Giuseppe Lo Bocchiaro
Illustrations
About
The workshop is aimed at children between the ages of 6 and 10. Cost of the workshop: €20 including snack.
A special way of sharing the theatre experience with the family: while the little ones take part in the workshop in the Sala degli Stemmi, the adults follow the opera or ballet in the Sala Grande. During the workshop, curated by Francesca Cosentino, the plot of the play is narrated, excerpts are listened to, pieces are created together, drawings are made and snacks are taken.
At the end of the workshop, children are accompanied to the Sala Grande to experience the magic of the theatre.
For information and reservations tel. 329 7260846
Programme
Francesca Cosentino
Texts and narration
Sonia Sala
Sung interventions
Marcella Vaccarino
Theatrical animation
Giuseppe Lo Bocchiaro
Drawings
About
The workshop is aimed at children between the ages of 6 and 10. Cost of the workshop: €20 including snack.
A special way of sharing the theatre experience with the family: while the little ones take part in the workshop in the Sala degli Stemmi, the adults follow the opera or ballet in the Sala Grande. During the workshop, curated by Francesca Cosentino, the plot of the play is narrated, excerpts are listened to, pieces are created together, drawings are made and snacks are taken.
At the end of the workshop, children are accompanied to the Sala Grande to experience the magic of the theatre.
For information and reservations tel. 329 7260846
Programme
Chicca Cosentino
Texts and narration
Gisella Vitrano
Theatrical animation
Sonia Sala
Sung interventions
Giuseppe Lo Bocchiaro
Illustrations