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February 6 to 8, 2026 | Sala ONU

from 3 to 10 years old

The three little pigs
The travelling trumpet

Musical Fairytales

Music by Salvatore Nogara
Text and theatrical adaptation Claudio Antonio Di Domenico
Scene Designs Stefano Canzoneri
Costume Designs Marja Hoffmann
Lighting Designs Vincenzo Traina
Narrators Emanuela Mulè, Giuseppe Moschella
Massimo Toys Orchestra

Tickets

Full price: 10 €
Concession: 8 €
Students: 4 €

Programme

About the show

Two musical fairy tales designed to capture the attention and imagination of young children.
Two productions featuring our Toys Orchestra, a youth orchestra that stands out for its use of toy instruments, ideal for introducing children to the world of music in a playful way.

Spoken parts of the performance are in Italian; a basic understanding of the language is adviced.

Ph. Rosellina GRBO

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January 26 2026 at 9pm| Main Stage

La coperta di Ruth
(Storia di un’ebrea)

Performed by the theater company Il tesoro ritrovato
Director and author
 Giovanna Allotta

Anna Cane presents the performance.

This show is in Italian; a basic understanding of the language is adviced. 

Under the Patronage of the Assemblea Regionale Siciliana

Tickets

A voluntary donation is requested to attend the show.
For further information, please call +39 350 1979252.

Sullo spettacolo

Presentazione

La coperta di Ruth (Ruth’s Blanket) stages the drama of the Shoah with strong emotions and profound reflections on the themes of racial discrimination and human suffering.
The story is set during the period of anti-Semitism and describes the human spirit of those who, prisoners and victims of Nazism, lived part of their lives between life and death.
The theater company also includes actors with disabilities, whose presence and talent are a concrete example that limitations can be overcome and diversity can become a strength.
The proceeds from the evening will be used to support the association’s activities aimed at children with disabilities.

Info

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)

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.

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March 20 – 23 2024 | Main Stage, Teatro Massimo

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 (March 20, 22) / Michele De Luca (March 21)
Voce dal mare
Natasa Kátai (March 21) / Maria Cristina Napoli  (March 20, 22)
Narrators Pietro Massaro and Oriana Martucci
Teatro Massimo Orchestra and Chorus
Chorus Master Salvatore Punturo
with pupils and teachers of the schools IC Alessandra Siragusa and Istituto Minutoli Ecoscuola

For audiences aged 6 to 12 | Reservations from January 10th

Photographs Franco Lannino

Tickets

Students 5 €
Full price 12 €
Reduced price 10 €
For more information

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.

Spoken parts of the performance are in Italian; a basic understanding of the language is adviced.

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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 20 – 22 May, 2025 | Sala ONU, Teatro Massimo

from 6 to 36 months old | Bookings from January 27, 2025

Inspired by Falstaff by Giuseppe Verdi
Musical dramaturgy Anna Pedrazzini
Direction Beatrice Baruffini

An AsLiCo production

Tickets

Students: 4 €
Full price: 10 €
Reduced price: 8 €
For further information

Programme

The plot

A ball is a belly, a head, an animal body. For play it is constantly transformed, and in between jokes, it is even possible for it to become Falstaff! Inspired by Giuseppe Verdi’s masterpiece, this very early childhood show explores play as a universal language, transporting young spectators to an enchanted universe where anything is possible. A poetic adventure that stimulates the imagination and celebrates fantasy.

Questo è uno spettacolo per i gruppi scolastici.

Spoken parts of the performance are in Italian; a basic understanding of the language is adviced. 

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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Saturday 9 and Sunday 24 May – Sala ONU

Opera meno9

A musical journey for expecting families

A project entirely dedicated to expecting families – both the parents and their arriving child.

Two workshop to discover classical music, singing and to find one’s own voice, creating a cradle of sound for the whole family.

The workshop is held in Italian and a basic knowledge of the language is strongly advised.

Tickets
1 participant to 1 workshop € 10,00
1 participant to 2 workshops € 16,00
2 participants 1 workshop € 16,00
2 participants 2 workshops € 30,00

The project

Workshop practical info

The workshop is recommended from the fifth to the eighth month of pregnancy, when it has been scientifically proven that the fetus begins to perceive and react to sounds coming from outside. Reproducing the sounds perceived during gestation, especially the voices of the parents, after birth, produces relaxing effects, intensifies the sound bond with the baby, and promotes vocal identification.

Presentation

This content is available in Italian only
Teatro Massimo e Palazzo Butera presentano una mostra congiunta che collega idealmente le sale del palazzo settecentesco affacciato sul mare con il Teatro, cuore pulsante della città. Elisabeth ScherffigContrappunto (14 maggio – 5 novembre 2023) ripercorre le scelte dell’artista tedesca che ha creato le immagini della campagna di comunicazione della stagione 2022-2023 del Teatro Massimo con una mostra che fa dialogare musica e disegno. L’artista, che ha alle sue spalle una carriera internazionale ed espone per la prima volta a Palermo, presenta le sue opere nel foyer e nella Sala Pompeiana del Teatro e nella Sala 19 del secondo piano di Palazzo Butera. Si potranno vedere le sue straordinarie prove grafiche, a pastello, spesso di grandi dimensioni, a confronto con l’architettura e le decorazioni del Teatro. 
 
“La Scherffig ha immaginato, apposta per questa collaborazione, una sovrapposizione di due piante di Palermo, dove il Teatro si proietta al di fuori dei suoi confini e finisce per assumere la scala del porto, luogo dell’accoglienza e dello scambio” – dice Claudio Gulli, direttore di Palazzo Butera, che aggiunge – “Nell’immagine che accompagna la stagione del Teatro Massimo, su quest’opera sono poggiate due teste – in organza di seta e porcellana e in porcellana rivestita d’oro. La testa dorata, dal lato del centro storico, sussurra qualcosa all’orecchio del Teatro: da quel lato si giocano i veri destini della città, da lì arriva la voce più calda. La testa bianca abita la città moderna, forse ha uno sguardo più distante e ricettivo. Può ascoltare in fondo il suono profondo della storia e interpretarlo, a suo modo, come se fosse un individuo proiettato nel futuro. È qui che si colloca anche la predisposizione di chi vede in Palazzo Butera un tassello ulteriore, privato ma aperto a tutti, di un mosaico cittadino”. Al Teatro Massimo oltre alle due teste, la pianta sdoppiata di Palermo e quattro pastelli di grandi dimensioni, un altro punto forte della mostra sarà Quasi un paesaggio (2003) i dieci pannelli di seta ricamata che saranno esposti al centro della Sala Pompeiana. Mentre a Palazzo Butera la sala della mostra sarà dedicata ai ficus che l’artista ha ritratto in più occasioni e che sono stati utilizzati dal Teatro Massimo per l’immagine della Traviata. Questo inserimento arricchisce la presenza delle opere della Scherffig nel percorso espositivo del Palazzo, dove al piano terra sono visibili lavori appartenenti alla serie Vitrea e altri disegni dal formato monumentale. 
 
“Il Teatro Massimo si propone come spazio aperto di dialogo tra le arti – dice il sovrintendente Marco Betta. Grazie all’accordo di collaborazione che abbiamo siglato con la Fondazione Palazzo Butera abbiamo l’opportunità di far conoscere al nostro pubblico il lavoro di una artista straordinaria come Elisabeth Scherffig. Con il suo tratto e la sua visione ha interpretato la centralità del Teatro nella vita culturale della città e ha disegnato una trama di architetture naturali e urbane che suggeriscono un’idea polifonica di città – che condividiamo – che intreccia i linguaggi del presente”.

Time

On Sunday, May 14 at 6:30pm, free entrance

After the opening, the joint exhibition will be open in both Teatro Massimo and Palazzo Butera with the combo ticket (15 euro) that includes a guided tour of the opera house and entry to the Valsecchi art collection in the historical Palazzo Butera.

Teatro Massimo 
Opening Hours: everyday, Monday to Sunday, from 9.00am to 6pm (last tour starts at 5.30pm)
Piazza Verdi – Palermo
Guided Tours +39 091 60 53 267
email visiteguidate@teatromassimo.it
teatromassimo.it

Palazzo Butera
Opening Hours: Tuesday to Sunday, from 10.00am to 8.00pm
Via Butera, 18 – Palermo
Telefono +39 091 75 21 754
E-mail info@palazzobutera.it
palazzobutera.it

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 I Capuleti e i Montecchi by Vincenzo Bellini with Giuseppe Cutino and Giuditta Perriera

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 Elisabetta regina d’Inghilterra by Gioachino Rossini with Rinaldo Clementi and Consuelo Lupo.