About
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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SINGING LESSON
SCENIC MOVEMENTS
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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.
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.
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Dates
- 25 February10:00 AMSchool-Groups Event18 February10:30 AMSchool-Groups Event19 February10:00 AMSchool-Groups Event19 February11:30 AMSchool-Groups Event20 February10:00 AMSchool-Groups Event20 February11:30 AMSchool-Groups Event24 February10:00 AMSchool-Groups Event24 February11:30 AMSchool-Groups Event25 February11:30 AMSchool-Groups Event26 February10:00 AMSchool-Groups Event26 February11:30 AMSchool-Groups Event27 February10:00 AMSchool-Groups Event27 February11:30 AMSchool-Groups Event
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 Turandot by Giacomo Puccini with Giuseppe Cutino and Sabrina Petyx.
About
May 30, 2024, 8:30 pm | Main Stage, Teatro Massimo
Reciting voice Alessandro Quasimodo
Piano Cinzia Pennesi
Clarinet Sauro Berti
Piano Naomi Fujiya
Two pianos Marco Sollini and Salvatore Barbatano
Narrator Giovanni Moschella
Director Filippo JacobssonPalermo remembers Franco Mannino on the centenary of his birth with a series of events that will touch places of music and places of the heart.
The evening will feature excellent artists who knew him, loved him, worked and collaborated with him, played his music-in short, had the good fortune to traverse his harmonious and wonderful world.Tickets 10 – 35 €
All proceeds from the concert will be donated to the NOT abili- MOVODI onlus Association of Palermo.
Programme
Franco Mannino
Sicily op. 621 on a text by Salvatore Quasimodo
for reciting voice and pianoFranco Mannino
Nostra Signora del Sud op. 469/502 on texts by Melo Freni
for reciting voice and piano
– Island
– Journey to the South
– The Route of Ulysses
– Without half words
– The song of the islandFranco Mannino
I gatti op.508 on a text by Melo Freni
for reciting voice and pianoFranco Mannino
Sonata op. 115 no. 3
for pianoFranco Mannino
Italian Suite op. 408
for clarinet and piano
– Giga
– Aria
– GagliardaFranco Mannino
Paraphrase from “Vivì” op. 412
for two pianosPoster
About
SOLD OUT
Sotto una nuova luce
Conductor Daniele GattiTeatro Massimo Orchestra
Live streaming on Teatro Massimo WebTV
Programme
Ludwig van Beethoven
Egmont, Ouverture op. 84
Symphony No. 1 in C major op. 21
Symphony No. 6 in F major op. 68New Guidelines for the Audience
Upon reopening in June 2020, the Teatro Massimo has established new safety and health guidelines for the people who will access the theatre during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Please read them before purchasing your tickets.Where to buy your tickets
Tickets on sale at at the Box-office, through the call center and online on TicketOne.it
Concessions
Young people under 26 anni, Under35 Card holders, 2020 subscribers, students of the University of Palermo, Palermo Conservatory of Music and Palermo Academy of Arts, Uncalm, groups (at least 20 people for the same date), Diamond Card holders. People with disabilities and their companions can access accessible seats in section 1 at the concession price for section 2 seats. All donors #iorinuncioalrimborso are granted the Under35 discount for the "Sotto una nuova luce" performances. If purchasing a concession priced ticket please bring proof of eligibility with you.
Orario
20 gennaio 2023
ore 19:50 sulla WebTV del Teatro
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).
Programme
Beatrice Monroy
presents Mitridate Eupatore by Alessandro Scarlatti with Gigi Borruso and Stefania Blandeburgo
About
Tuesday November 18 2025, 6pm
Anna Giust presents the diptych Aleko/Pagliacci, opening of the 2025/26 Season.
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 the Associazione Amici del Teatro Massimo.
The speaker
Anna Giust
teaches Russian language and literature at the University of Verona. In the field of music, she conducts research on the Russian opera repertoire as a vehicle for interpreting the cultural history of that country in relation to the evolution of European culture. At the same time, she is interested in the musical relations between Europe and Russia, in particular the phenomenon of the reception of Italian and French opera, and the mobility of artists to and from Russia. She is the author of several articles on Russian musical theatre from the 18th to the 21st century, and of three monographs: Ivan Susanin by Catterino Cavos, Un’opera russa prima dell’Opera russa (EDT-De Sono Tesi, Turin 2011), Cercando l’opera russa, La formazione di una coscienza nazionale nel teatro musicale del Settecento (Feltrinelli-Amici della Scala, Milan 2014), and La forza dell’amore, dell’odio e del destino: Verdi e l’opera italiana in Russia (Istituto Nazionale di Studi Verdiani, Parma 2024). He also edited the critical edition of the opera Ivan Susanin by Catterino Cavos and Aleksandr Šachovskoj (SEdM, Rome 2024).
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Tuesday October 20 2026, 6 pm, Sala Onu
Talking about Opera – Rigoletto
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 Rigoletto with Giuseppe Cutino 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).
About
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.