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).
The poster
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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.
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Creative cast
Creative direction Luca Pintacuda
Artistic direction Antonino Serafino
Screenplay Fabrizio Pedone
Music and live performances Giulia Tagliavia, Giovanni Magaglio
Interaction Design Alessandro Disingrini, Albert Julius Cabri
Designers Lidia Falletta, Serena Pantaleo, Claudia Rago, John Mark Poultry, Rosaria Gallè
Tickets
Biglietti
Full price €12 + €8 guided tour
Reduced (under 26 and card under 35) €8 + €6 guided tour
Reduced price for school groups €4 + €3 guided tour
Free: one accompanying teacher for every 10 students, H students and their support teachers
It is also possible to purchase the show only (without the guided tour)
Gallery
Highlights
An experience in which the public will find itself surrounded by projections, lights, music; a one-of-a-kind show in which the stages, the ceiling and the holographic sheets become the projection surfaces on which the narrative develops. Over the centuries, the harmonies and disharmonies of nature have inspired musicians and composers who have tried to translate into music the alternation of the seasons, the noises produced by natural phenomena, by living beings, by the movements of the cosmos. “Sounds in Extinction” questions and questions the viewer on the relationship between music, art and the natural environment, and on the evolution of this relationship in relation to a world that is increasingly artificial, urban, virtual and the danger of the progressive disappearance of entire ecosystems.