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Sunday October 26 2025, 7:30pm – Chiesa Nostra Signora delle Nazioni, Palermo – Il Massimo per la città
Teatro Massimo Strings Ensemble
Spalla concertante Silviu Dima
Strings Ensemble of the Teatro Massimo Orchestra
Free entrance
Programme
Programme
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Divertimento in D major K. 136
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Divertimento in F major K. 138
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Eine Kleine Nachtmusik K. 525
Benjamin Britten Simple Symphony op. 4
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We inform the audience that the concert has been canceled.
We are sorry for the inconvenience.
Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 February 2026 | Sala ONU
Love Arias
Teatro Massimo’s Cantoria
Massimo Youth Orchestra
Conductor Michele De Luca
Chorus Master Giuseppe Ricotta
Tickets
Full price: 10 €
Concession: 8 €
Students: 4 €
Programme
Music by
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti, Gioacchino Rossini, Giacomo Puccini
About
Wednesday, December 3, 5 pm – Feltrinelli Bookstore (Via Cavour)
Presentation of the book “Nino Rota. Storia del mago Doppio e della fata Giglia”
The volume will be presented by:
– Marco Betta, Superintendent of the Teatro Massimo Foundation
– Dario Oliveri, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Music History at the University of Palermo.
Programme
Presentation
The work traces the composer’s great artistic and human adventure, drawing on mostly unpublished documents and testimonies that reconstruct the parable of an artist whose life was extremely intense, made up of strong family ties and friendships and collaborations with some of the greatest artists of his time, from Fellini and Visconti to De Filippo, Béjart, Coppola and Zeffirelli.
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Tuesday, May 5 2026 – 7.15pm – Church San Francesco di Paola
Thursday, May 7 2026 – 7.30pm – Church “Nostra Signora delle Nazioni in S. Eugenio Papa”
The Massimo for the City of Palermo – The Teatro Massimo String Ensemble
Conductor Michele De Luca
Violin Salvatore Greco
String Ensemble of the Teatro Massimo Orchestra
Free admission subject to availability
Programme
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Eine kleine Nachtmusik K 525
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Divertimento for Strings in D Major K 136
Astor Piazzolla
Adiòs Nonino
Oblivion
Ave Maria
Libertango
Ennio e Andrea Morricone
Love Theme from Nuovo Cinema Paradiso
Carlos Gardel
Por una cabeza
About
dai 10 ai 16 anni
Ideazione, regia e coreografia Lucia Ermetto
Cast
Frida Francesca Davoli (25, 27 ore 10.00) / Giada Scimemi (26, 27 ore 11.30)
Diego Rivera Diego Millesimo (25, 27 ore 10.00) / Daniele Chiodo (26, 27 ore 11.30)
Cristina, sorella di Frida Giada Scimemi (25, 27 ore 10.00) / Francesca Davoli (26, 27 ore 11.30)
Alter ego di Diego Rivera Benedetto Oliva
Stati d’animo di Frida Simona Filippone, Romina Leone, Valentina Zaja
Corpo di ballo del Teatro Massimo
Direttore del Corpo di ballo Jean-Sébastien Colau
Biglietti
Ridotto studenti: 4 €
Intero: 10 €
Per maggiori informazioni
Lo spettacolo in breve
La trama
Uno spettacolo unico e coinvolgente che ci porterà alla scoperta della straordinaria vita e arte di una delle artiste più iconiche del XX secolo, simbolo di forza, passione e determinazione. Attraverso la danza, la musica e il teatro, esploreremo le sfaccettature più profonde di Frida Kahlo: le sue sfide personali, il suo rapporto con la diversità, le relazioni intense, la passione per il Messico.
Gallery
Ph. Rosellina Garbo
Questo è uno spettacolo per i gruppi scolastici e le famiglie.
Per le recite infrasettimanali le scuole devono prenotare compilando il modulo.
QUI tutte le informazioni sul progetto Educational per le scuole.
Eventuali biglietti disponibili per le recite infrasettimanali saranno messi in vendita presso la biglietteria la mattina stessa dello spettacolo.
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strong>Saturday April 20 | Main Stage
by Venti Lucenti
inspired by Richard Wagner‘s Tristan und Isolde
Written and directed by Manu Lalli
Assistant Director Chiara Casalbuoni
Original music, arrangements and transcriptions Simone Piraino
Conductor Daniele Malinverno
Voce dal mare Maria Cristina Napoli
Narrators Pietro Massaro and Oriana Martucci
Teatro Massimo Orchestra and Chorus
Chorus Master Salvatore Punturo
with the classes of IC Rita Atria and IC Guglielmo Marconi
Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Massimo
Chorus Master Salvatore Punturo
Conductor Michele De Luca / Daniele Malinverno
Voce dal mare Maria Cristina Napoli / Natasa Kátai
Narrators Pietro Massaro and Oriana Martucci
with pupils and teachers of the schools IC Rita Atria and IC Guglielmo Marconi
Duration: 1 hour
For audiences aged 6 to 12 (and their families)
Tickets
15 / 10 / 5 €
Programme
The plot
The legend of Tristan and Isolde, one of the most romantic stories of the Middle Ages, is very old: it tells the adventures of a knight and a princess who fall in love thanks to a magic elixir. Wagner composed the opera based on Goffredo di Strasburgo’s text and staged it in 1865. It is still considered one of the masterpieces of all time. The version that will be performed, while maintaining the essential dramaturgical and musical lines intact, is adapted in such a way as to exalt the magical and symbolic fairy-tale aspects of the story, which has at its centre important themes linked to the imaginary and ideal horizon of the world of chivalry, such as the search for love, the relationship between public morality and private morality, sin and fidelity.
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Spoken parts of the performance are in Italian; a basic understanding of the language is adviced.
This Saturday performance is open to everyone.
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.
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Thursday April 17 at 11:30am | Main Stage
Il cerchio tagliato dei suoni
Salvatore Sciarrino
Concert fot 4 solo flutes and 100 migrant flutes (1997)
Solo Flutes Gianni Trovalusci, Alessandra Rombolà, Alessandro Lo Giudice, Eva Geraci
In collaboration with:
Conservatorio “Alessandro Scarlatti” di Palermo
Conservatorio “Antonio Scontrino” di Trapani
Liceo Musicale “Regina Margherita”
and the schools with musical focus:
I.C. S. “De Gasperi – Pecoraro”
I. C. S. “Mattarella – Bonagia”
I. C. S. “De Amicis – Da Vinci”
I. C. S. “P. V. Marone – Tomaselli”
I. C. S. “Giuseppe Verdi”
I. C. S. “Monti Iblei – V. E. Orlando”
I. C. S. “Cruillas”
I. C. S. “Politeama”
I. C. S. “Maneri – Ingrassia – Don Lorenzo Milani”
I. C. S. “Balsamo Pandolfini” di Termini Imerese
Convitto Nazionale “Giovanni Falcone”
Produced by Curva Minore in co-production
with the Teatro Massimo Foundation
Project realised within the PrimaVera Contemporanea music festival
organised and produced by Curva Minore
About the project
Tickets
Full price 10 euro
Presentation
With this project made of breath, air, wind, vital breath, we hope that the Earth, progressively freed from pollution, can breathe again.
The piece, of great emotional intensity and sonic and musical fascination, is intended (in the promoters’ intention) as a liberating trigger of strong energies, directed towards an ever-increasing awareness of environmental and sustainability issues and the actions to be taken to implement them.
A Sound Ecology project to affirm once again affirms that music and the practice of the musical instrument are fundamental in the overall development of the individual, harmonising cognitive faculties with the deepest moods and emotions and acting as a stimulus for the development of the expressive and creative potential of the human being and his interpersonal relational network.
In addition to its specific artistic content, the work’s formative value is particularly significant. In an intergenerational and inclusive experience of new musical languages, it brings together 4 soloists and 100 very young flute players from the flute classes of the Palermo schools with a music focus, from the Liceo Musicale and young Conservatory students who act as tutors in this great project of migration and change.
Poster
About
October 29 – 30 2026 |Main Stage
Aida anime di sabbia
from 8 to 14 years old | School Group Bookings from January 8 2026
Director Manu Lalli
Original music and arrangements Simone Piraino
Conductor Michele De Luca
Assistant Director Chiara Casalbuoni
Scene Designs Daniele Leone
Scene and Costume Making Marco Burberi, Paola Pietri, Ginevra Boni
Lighting Designs Vincenzo Traina
Teatro Massimo Orchestra and Chorus
Chorus Master Salvatore Punturo
A Teatro Massimo New Production
Cast
Educational Workshops Assistants Carla Barbato, Anton Giulio Pandolfo
Tickets
Full price: 12 €
Concession: 10 €
Students: 5 €
Free entrance for 1 teacher every 10 students, students with disabilities and their support teachers
Programme
The plot
Aida is not only a monumental opera set in an idealized Egypt, but a universal story that speaks of deep human emotions. The protagonists—Aida, Radamès, and Amneris—are young people overwhelmed by passions and ambitions greater than themselves, victims of an inexorable fate and a cruel and useless war. The opera thus becomes a reflection on love as the only way to give meaning to life.
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.
Find out more about our Educational project for school groups.
INTRODUCTORY VIDEO
SINGING LESSON
Videos realized by Venti Lucenti