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Thursday, February 19, 2026 | Main Stage
Mozart, Beethoven: the sacred, the heroic
Teatro Massimo Cantoria
Massimo Youth Orchestra
Conductor Michele De Luca
Chorus Master Giuseppe Ricotta
Tickets
from 10 to 25 euros
Programme
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Missa Brevis in B flat minor, K 275/272B (Mass.no.14)
Ludwig van Beethoven
Simphony n° 5 in C minor, op. 67
Gallery
Ph. Franco Lannino
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Saturday April 11 2026, 7 p.m. | Sala ONU
Dialoghi di corde
String Quartet of the Massimo Youth Orchestra
Violins Monica Luca, Germano Maniscalco
Viola Pietro Tomasino
Cello Beatrice Longo
Tickets
Full price: 10 €
Concession: 8 €
Students: 4 €
Programme
Programme
Joseph Haydn Quartet in D minor, Hob.III:76
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Andante cantabile from Quartet No. 1 in D major, Op. 11
Franz Schubert Ständchen (Serenade)
Astor Piazzolla Ave Maria / Tanti anni prima
Astor Piazzolla Libertango
Gallery
Ph. Franco Lannino
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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.
Gallery
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
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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).
Photo Fausto Brigantino
Programme
Beatrice Monroy
presents Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi with Rinaldo Clementi and Stefania Blandeburgo
About
Cantoria of the Teatro Massimo Foundation
Choirmaster Giuseppe Ricotta
Tickets: Full-price 10€ / Reduced-price 8€
Programme
Lead Belly
Bring Me Little Water Sylvie
Johann Sebastian Bach
Aria sulla quarta corda
David Lang
He was and she was da Love Fail
Giuseppe Ricotta
Contemporary Mass n. 1 “Anima Mundi”
Kyrie – Gloria – Sanctus – Benedictus – Lux Aeterna – Agnus Dei
Ola Gjeilo
Tundra
Giuseppe Ricotta
Che colpa ho?
Leonard Cohen
Hallelujah (arr. Alberto Maniaci)
Medley da Sister Act
Hail Holy Queen, I will follow Him, Shout (arr. Marc Saiman)
Smokey Robinson My Guy/My God
Amazing grace – Oh happy day (arr. Giuseppe Ricotta)
Merwyn Warren Joyful, joyful
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Friday, June 14 2024, 8:30pm | Foyer
Conductor Salvatore Punturo
Pianoforte Giuseppe Cinà
Teatro Massimo Chorus and Youth Chorus
Soprano Gabriella Barresi
Mezzosoprano Ambra Abbisogni
Tenor Gianmarco Randazzo
Bass Federico Cucinotta
Tickets: Full price 15€ / Concession 12€
Programme
Giuseppe Verdi
from La traviata:
“Noi siamo zingarelle” and “Di Madride noi siam mattadori”
Flora Ambra Abbisogni
Marchese Federico Cucinotta
“Si ridesti in ciel l’aurora”
“Libiamo nei lieti calici”
Gaetano Donizetti
“Che interminabile andirivieni” from Don Pasquale
Georges Bizet
from Carmen:
“Dans l’air nous suivons des yeux”
Habanera “L’amour est un oiseau rebelle”
Carmen Ambra Abbisogni
“Avec la garde montante”
“Voici la quadrille”
from Les pêcheurs de perles:
“Sur la grève en feu”
“L’ombre descend des cieux”
“Dès que le soleil”
Pëtr Il’ič Čajkovskij
from Evgenij Onegin:
Peasants’ Choir (Act I)
“Vot tak surpris” (Act II)
Capitano Federico Cucinotta
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Direttore e pianoforte Wayne Marshall
Orchestra del Teatro Massimo
In diretta streaming sulla WebTV del Teatro Massimo
Programme
Leonard Bernstein
Ouverture da Candide
George Gershwin
Rhapsody in Blue
Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic Picture (arr. Robert Russell Bennett)