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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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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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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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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).
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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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Wednesday April 22 2026, 6pm – Sala ONU
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
Lucio Tufano
presents Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali by Gaetano Donizetti
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Tuesday 7 April 2026 at 6.45 pm – Church of Maria SS. delle Grazie – Sperone / Roccella
Wednesday 8 April 2026 at 9.00 pm – Church of San Giovanni Apostolo – CEP
The Massimo for the City of Palermo – The Teatro Massimo String Ensemble
Concertmaster Silviu Dima
String Ensemble of the Teatro Massimo Orchestra
Free admission subject to availability
Programme
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Divertimento in F major, K. 138
Ottorino Respighi
Ancient Dances and Airs for Lute, Suite No. 3 (version for string orchestra)
Pëtr Il’ič Čajkovskij
Serenade for Strings in C major, Op. 48
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Monday, March 4 2024 | Main Stage
Conductor Michele De Luca
Dramaturgy and Acting Paolo Migone
Massimo Kids Orchestra
Comedian Paolo Migone explains that classical music is not something incomprehensible or particularly strange, but is first and foremost music.
So why not let ourselves be moved and involved by the music of the great composers? Migone guides us into a universe unknown to many, and he does it in his own way, with absolute originality, lots of irony and without any prejudice or pretentious snobbery. The show is engaging, entertaining, enriched by slides, and in the narration four of the most incredible musicians in the history of music are associated with the four elements: Vivaldi with the water, Bach with the earth, Mozart with the air, Beethoven with the fire, as if to emphasise the indispensability of music for humanity.
Tickets
Full price: 12 €
Student concession: 5 €
Programme
Music by
J. S. Bach, A. Vivaldi, W. A. Mozart, L. van Beethoven
Spoken parts of the performance are in Italian; a basic understanding of the language is adviced.
This performance is 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.
Sunday March 3 performance is open to everyone.
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May 27 – 29 2025 | Sala Grande, Teatro Massimo
from 5 to 13 years old | Bookings from 20 January, 2025
Written and directed by Manu Lalli
Original music and arrangements Simone Piraino
Teatro Massimo Orchestra and Chorus
Chorus Master Salvatore Punturo
Written and directed by Manu Lalli
Original music and arrangements Simone Piraino
Assistant Director Chiara Casalbuoni
Scene Designs Daniele Leone
Conductor Daniele Malinverno (27, 28 ore 10) / Michele De Luca (28 ore 11:45, 29)
Voce dell’alba Maria Cristina Napoli (27, 28 ore 10) / Fabiola Galati (28 ore 11:45, 29)
Voce del tramonto Sonia Sala (27, 28, 29)
Luna Alessandra Falanga
Fata Isabella Sciortino
Direttore del Circo Giuseppe Randazzo
Teatro Massimo Orchestra and Chorus
Chorus Master Salvatore Punturo
With the classes of the primary school D.D. Garzilli
Educational Workshops Assistants Angela Ribaudo, Patrizia Veneziano Broccia
A production of the Teatro Massimo
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…
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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.
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18 – 27 February 2026 | A Dance performance in between halls of the Teatro Massimo
from 13 to 18 years old| Bookings open on November 18 2025
Project and choreography Andrea Mocciardini and Giovanni Traetto
Teatro Massimo Ballet
Ballet Director Jean-Sébastien Colau
Tickets
Full price: 10 €
Concession: 8 €
Students: 4 €
Free entrance for 1 teacher every 10 students, students with disabilities and their support teachers
Programme
The plot
Each of us encounters difficulties in daily life. Finding a solution requires a will to take action and move forward, because immobility is never the way out. In this show, Dante’s journey in the Divine Comedy represents the stages of life from adolescence to adulthood. We will thus have the Dark Forest, i.e., the approach to adolescence, Hell, i.e., the period of total rebellion and confusion, we will pass through the arduous Purgatory, i.e., the phase of challenge, learning, and growth, to end up in Paradise, a place of serenity given by awareness.
The participants, in the role of the Supreme Poet, will have the opportunity to embark on both a physical and emotional journey through the halls of the theater, exploring the theatre, the people it contains and themselves at the same time.
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Ph. Rosellina Garbo
Spoken parts of the performance are in Italian; a basic understanding of the language is adviced.
This is an 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.
Find out more about our Educational project for school groups.