About
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 €
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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.
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.
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 Jacobsson
Palermo 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 piano
Franco 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 island
Franco Mannino
I gatti op.508 on a text by Melo Freni
for reciting voice and piano
Franco Mannino
Sonata op. 115 no. 3
for piano
Franco Mannino
Italian Suite op. 408
for clarinet and piano
– Giga
– Aria
– Gagliarda
Franco Mannino
Paraphrase from “Vivì” op. 412
for two pianos
Poster
About
Friday, October 11th, 9 p.m. | Monreale Cathedral
Opening concert of the 66th International Week of Sacred Music in Monreale
Conductor Daniel Smith
Sicilian Symphony Orchestra
Chorus master Giuseppe Ricotta
Cantoria of the Teatro Massimo Foundation
Children’s Choir Chorusmaster Riccardo Scilipoti
Children’s Choir of the Sicilian Symphony Orchestra Foundation
Free admission subject to availability
Programme
Ralph Vaughan-Williams
Fantasy on a theme by Thomas Tallis
Franz Liszt
Dante-Symphonie for soprano, female chorus, children’s choir and orchestra S 109
About
Saturday May 31 2025, 10.30am – Sala ONU
Saturday June 7 2025, 10.30am – 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 recommended from the fifth to the eighth month of pregnancy, when it is scientifically proven that the foetus begins to perceive and react to sounds coming from outside. Replaying the sounds perceived during gestation, especially the parents’ voices, after birth produces relaxing effects, intensifies the sound bond with the baby and promotes vocal identification.
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 Opera minus 9 project includes two workshop meetings in comfortable spaces, where activities of musical listening, vocal experimentation and discussion are proposed. Mothers and their companions can attend one workshop or both:
Workshop 1 (31 May): a guided listening session of live classical music, proposing interesting listening activities to be repeated at home during the months of pregnancy, a magical experience in contact with musical instruments and their vibrations;
Workshop 2 (7 June): a music and movement workshop with practical tips for playing with music in the family in the first months of life.
Poster
Info
Falstaff
Burattini e burle
Based on Falstaff di Giuseppe Verdi
Music Dramaturgy Anna Pedrazzini
Dramaturgy and Direction Nadia Milani
A new production of AsLiCo
Opera kids – XVI edition
Running time: 50 minutes
For children aged 5 – 8
Tickets
Students 5 €
Full price 12 €
Concession 10 €
About
The plot
Falstaff is an old, light-hearted puppeteer who, short of money, devises stratagems and intrigues to survive.
His puppets and marionettes, together with the children of the audience, laugh and enjoy themselves at his clumsy tricks, then help him put things right.
We thus enter a timeless world populated by masks, puppets and marionettes, which recalls photographs of times past with the vividness of the present.
A world where everything is a joke (tutto è burla)!
Spoken parts of the performance are in Italian; a basic understanding of the language is adviced.
This event is part of the Educational Programme of the Teatro Massimo 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.