About
July 15 2025, 9pm | Main Stage
Musica da Oscar
Conductor Maurizio Billi
Soprano Anna Kazlova
Teatro Massimo Orchestra
Running time: 75 minutes
Tickets
Bookings open on Tuesday, June 3
Price range: 10 – 25 euro
[Ticket fares and info]
Programme
Nino Rota
The Leopard symphonic suite
Ennio Morricone
Inseguendo quel suono’ (Cockeye’s Song – Lady Caliph – The Inheritance)
Ennio Morricone
My Heart and I (The Octopus) (arr. Maurizio Billi)
John Williams
Movies Symphony (Star Wars – Raiders of the Lost Ark – E.T. – Superman) (arr. Roberto Granata)
John Williams
Main Theme (Schindler’s List)
Astor Piazzolla
Ave Maria (Tanti anni fa) (Enrico IV) (arr. Maurizio Billi)
Bernard Herrmann
Vertigo – Suite
Ennio Morricone
Symphonic ecstasy (A Fistful of Dynamite- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly) (arr. Maurizio Billi)
Ennio Morricone
Hommage to Morricone (The Untouchables – Cinema Paradiso – The Secret of the Sahara – The Mission) (arr. Maurizio Billi e Roberto Granata)
Gallery
Poster
About
July 19 2025, 9pm | Main Stage
In memoria
Conductor Salvatore Punturo
Soprano Ginevra Gentile
Baritone Andrea Borghini
Teatro Massimo Chorus
Four-hands piano Giuseppe Cinà e Matteo Londero
in remembrance of Paolo Borsellino, Agostino Catalano, Walter Eddie Cosina, Emanuela Loi, Vincenzo Li Muli and Claudio Traina
Running time: 1 hour and 15 minutes (without intermission)
Tickets
Bookings open on Tuesday, June 3
Price range: 10 – 25 euro
[Ticket fares and info]
Programme
Johannes Brahms
Ein deutsches Requiem (four-hands piano version)
Gallery
The poster
About
From 29 to 30 July 2021
Adolphe Adam
Giselle
Conductor Omer Meir Wellber
Coreographer Patrice Bart
from Jean Coralli/Jules Perrot
Production recreated by Raffaella Renzi
Scene Designs Raffaele Del Savio
Costume Designs Giusi Giustino
Lighting Designs Salvatore Spataro
Maîtres de ballet Marco Pierin, Corina Dumitrescu
Teatro Massimo Ballet and Orchestra
Ballet Director Davide Bombana
More info
Cast
Giselle Alina Cojocaru
Albrecht Timofej Andrijashenko
Myrtha Maria Chiara Grisafi
Hilarion Vincenzo Carpino
Berthe, Giselle’s mother Giada Scimemi
Wilfred, Albrecht’s friend Fabio Correnti
Bathilde, Albrecht’s fiancée Carmen Marcuccio
Duca di Curlandia Gaetano La Mantia
Farmers Linda Messina e Michele Morelli (29) / Yuriko Nishihara e Alessandro Cascioli (30)
Gallery
New Guidelines for the Audience
All the people who will access the Teatro Massimo or the Teatro di Verdura are required to take a few minutes to read the guidelines. Bear in mind that you are required to wear a face mask at all times, measure your body temperature upon arrival to the opera house, keep a physical distance of at least one metre from other people and sit in your selected seat.
Where to buy your tickets
At the Box-office, online on TicketOne.it, by calling the call centre. On performance days the Teatro di Verdura box-office is open from 7.15pm.
Concessions
Under 26, Under35 Card holders, 2020 subscribers, #iorinuncio al rimborso donors, 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. 6 seats in section 1 are reserved for people with disabilities and their companions for each performance (at the fare of gradinata) - check with the box-office for further info. You will be required to show your ID/certificate to get the concession price.
Photo © Rosellina Garbo
About
July 17 2025, 9pm | Main stage
Paolo Buonvino – The music beyond the stories – Live
Piano Paolo Buonvino
Violin Prisca Amori
Viola Antonio Bossone
Cello Luca Pincini
Wind Instruments Pasquale Laino
Vocal soloist. Simona Sciacca
Guitar Alessandro Chimienti
Percussions Puccio Panettieri
Harmonica Mauro Menegazzi
Electronics Silvia Barbera
Guest Faisal Taher
Running time: 1 hour and 40 minutes (without intermission)
Tickets
Bookings open on Tuesday, June 3
Price range: 12 – 30 euro
[Ticket fares and info]
Programme
Programme
Fatima (from Fatima, director Marco Pontecorvo)
Where are you? (from Fatima, director Marco Pontecorvo)
Risvegli (from A casa tutti bene – La serie, director Gabriele Muccino)
Una nuova alba (from A casa tutti bene – La serie, director Gabriele Muccino)
Sconvolti (from A casa tutti bene – La serie, director Gabriele Muccino)
Caos Calmo (from Caos calmo, director Antonello Grimaldi)
Noite e Luar (from Manuale d’amore, director Giovanni Veronesi)
Gabriel Tango (from Ecco fatto, director Gabriele Muccino)
Les estivants (from Les estivants, director Valeria Bruni Tedeschi)
Apertura (from L’ultimo bacio, director Gabriele Muccino)
Non sono pensieri carini (from l’ultimo bacio, director Gabriele Muccino)
Tema semplice (from L’ultimo bacio, director Gabriele Muccino)
Grande mistero (from Padre Pio, director Carlo Carlei)
Mirella (from N – Io e Napoleone, director Paolo Virzì)
Quello che resta (from Ricordati di me, director Gabriele Muccino)
L’amante perduto (from L’amante perduto, director Roberto Faenza)
All’alba ti pinsai (from Italians, director Giovanni Veronesi)
Si vulissi (from Çiatu, Biennale musica di Venezia 2022)
Ferma zitella (from La notte della Taranta Festival 2020)
L’incanto sospeso (from Il Gattopardo – the series, director Tom Shankland)
Spunta lu suli (from Il Gattopardo – the series, director Tom Shankland)
Love for duty (from I Medici – Master of Florence – the series, director Frank Spotniz)
Renaissance (from I Medici – Master of Florence – the series, director Frank Spotniz)
La meraviglia di esserci (from Baciami, director Gabriele Muccino)
Occupazione (from Come te nessuno mai, director Gabriele Muccino)
Gallery
The poster
Info
From 9 to 11 July 2021
Giuseppe Verdi
La traviata
Conductor Michele Spotti
Mise en espace Ludovico Rajata
Costume Designs and Scenery Francesco Zito
Visual Project Francesco Zito e Ludovico Rajata
Digital Animation Fabiola Nicoletti
Lighting Designs Giuseppe Di Iorio
Coreographer Carmen Marcuccio
Chorus Master Ciro Visco
Teatro Massimo Orchestra, Chorus and Ballet
Cast
Cast
Violetta Valéry Pretty Yende
Flora Carlotta Vichi
Annina Piera Bivona
Alfredo Germont David Astorga
Giorgio Germont Simone Piazzola
Gastone Blagoj Nacoski
Barone Douphol Giuseppe Esposito
Marchese D’Obigny Salvatore Grigoli
Dottor Grenvil Adriano Gramigni
Un commissionario / Domestico di Flora Antonio Barbagallo
Giuseppe Carlo Morgante
Zingarella Francesca Bellone
Matadores Alessandro Casà, Diego Mulone
Gallery
New Guidelines for the Audience
All the people who will access the Teatro Massimo or the Teatro di Verdura are required to take a few minutes to read the guidelines. Bear in mind that you are required to wear a face mask at all times, measure your body temperature upon arrival to the opera house, keep a physical distance of at least one metre from other people and sit in your selected seat.
Where to buy your tickets
At the Box-office, online on TicketOne.it, by calling the call centre. On performance days the Teatro di Verdura box-office is open from 7.15pm.
Concessions
Under 26, Under35 Card holders, 2020 subscribers, #iorinuncio al rimborso donors, 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. 6 seats in section 1 are reserved for people with disabilities and their companions for each performance (at the fare of gradinata) - check with the box-office for further info. You will be required to show your ID/certificate to get the concession price.
Photo © Rosellina Garbo
About
July 16 2025, 9pm | Main Stage
Brahms – Schumann – Elgar
Conductor Salvatore Punturo
Four-hands piano Claudio Marchetti and Giuseppe Cinà
Teatro Massimo Chorus
Tickets
Bookings open on Tuesday, June 3
Running time: 50 minutes without intermission
Price range: 10 – 25 euros
[Ticket fares and info]
Programme
Johannes Brahms
Liebeslieder-Walzer op. 52
- Rede, Mädchen (Dimmi, fanciulla)
- Am Gesteine rauscht die Flut (Sulla roccia rumoreggia il ruscello)
- O die Frauen (Oh le donne)
- Wie des Abends schöne Röte (Come del bel rosso della sera)
- Die grüne Hopfenranke (I verdi viticci del luppolo)
- Ein kleiner, hübscher Vögel (Un bell’uccellino)
- Wohl schön bewandt war es (Come era bello)
Ungarische Tanze n. 7 in La maggiore
Liebeslieder-Walzer op. 52
- Wenn so lind dein Auge mir (Quando il tuo occhio dolce)
- Am Donaustrande (Sulle rive del Danubio)
- O wie sanft die Quelle (Come serena la fonte)
- Nein, es ist nicht auszukommen (No, non se ne può più)
- Schlosser auf (Orsù fabbro)
Ungarische Tanze n. 5 in Fa diesis minore
Liebeslieder-Walzer op. 52
- Vogelein durchrauscht die Luft (L’uccellino vola nell’aria)
- Sieh! wie ist die Welle klar (Vedi! Come è chiara l’onda)
- Nachtigall (L’usignolo)
- Ein dunkeler Schacht ist Liebe (L’amore è un buco nero)
- Nicht wandle mein Licht (Non vagare mia luce)
18. Es bebet das Gesträuche (Tremano i cespugli)
Robert Schumann
Zigeunerleben op. 29
Edward Elgar
From the Bavarian Highlands op. 27
- The Dance (Sonnenbichl) – Allegretto giocoso
- False Love (Wamberg) – Allegretto ma moderato
- Lullaby (In Hammersbach) – Moderato
- Aspiration (Bei Sankt Anton) – Adagio
- On the Alm (True Love, Hoch Alp) – Allegro piacevole
- The Marksmen (Bei Murnau) – Allegro vivace
Gallery
Ph. Franco Lannino
Info
Sunday, July 4 2021, 09:15 pm
Conductor Omer Meir Wellber
Piano Daniel Ciobanu
Mezzosoprano Natalia Gavrilan
Chorus Master Ciro Visco
Teatro Massimo Chorus and Orchestra
Programme
Sergej Rachmaninov
Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 2 in C minor op. 18
Sergej Prokofiev
Aleksandr Nevskij
Cantata for mezzosoprano, chorus and orchestra with videoprojection of excerpts from Sergej Ejzenštejn’s film (1938) film restored by studio Mosfilm in 1986
New Guidelines for the Audience
All the people who will access the Teatro Massimo or the Teatro di Verdura are required to take a few minutes to read the guidelines. Bear in mind that you are required to wear a face mask at all times, measure your body temperature upon arrival to the opera house, keep a physical distance of at least one metre from other people and sit in your selected seat.
Where to buy your tickets
At the Box-office, online on TicketOne.it, by calling the call centre. On performance days the Teatro di Verdura box-office is open from 7.15pm.
Concessions
Under 26, Under35 Card holders, 2020 subscribers, #iorinuncio al rimborso donors, 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. 6 seats in section 1 are reserved for people with disabilities and their companions for each performance (at the fare of gradinata) - check with the box-office for further info. You will be required to show your ID/certificate to get the concession price.
About
July 16, 9.30pm |Greek Theater of Taormina
Una notte da Oscar
Conductor Maurizio Billi
Soprano Anna Kazlova
Teatro Massimo Orchestra
Running time: 1 hour and 15 minutes (without intermission)
Tickets for sale exclusively through the Foundation Taormina Arte Sicilia channels
[Ticket fares and info]
Programme
Nino Rota
The Leopard symphonic suite
Ennio Morricone
Inseguendo quel suono’ (Cockeye’s Song – Lady Caliph – The Inheritance) (arr. Maurizio Billi)
Ennio Morricone
My Heart and I (The Octopus) (arr. Maurizio Billi)
John Williams
Movies Symphony (Star Wars – Raiders of the Lost Ark – E.T. – Superman) (arr. Roberto Granata)
John Williams
Main Theme (Schindler’s List)
Astor Piazzolla
Ave Maria (Tanti anni fa) (Enrico IV) (arr. Maurizio Billi)
Bernard Herrmann
Vertigo – Suite
Ennio Morricone
Symphonic ecstasy (A Fistful of Dynamite- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly) (arr. Maurizio Billi)
Ennio Morricone
Hommage to Morricone (The Untouchables – Cinema Paradiso – The Secret of the Sahara – The Mission) (arr. Maurizio Billi e Roberto Granata)
Gallery
Info
Giuseppe Verdi
Il trovatore
in concerted form
Conductor Daniel Oren
Lighting Designs Giuseppe Di Iorio
Chorus Master Ciro Visco
We inform the public that on Tuesday 20 July the tenor Piero Pretti will replace Carlo Ventre in the main role
Teatro Massimo Orchestra and Chorus
Cast
Cast
Il Conte di Luna Artur Rucinski
Leonora Angela Meade
Azucena Violeta Urmana
Manrico Carlo Ventre (18), Piero Pretti (20)
Ferrando Sava Vemic
Ines Carlotta Vichi
Ruiz Blagoj Nacoski
Vecchio zingaro Federico Cucinotta
Messo Pietro Luppina
New Guidelines for the Audience
All the people who will access the Teatro Massimo or the Teatro di Verdura are required to take a few minutes to read the guidelines. Bear in mind that you are required to wear a face mask at all times, measure your body temperature upon arrival to the opera house, keep a physical distance of at least one metre from other people and sit in your selected seat.
Where to buy your tickets
At the Box-office, online on TicketOne.it, by calling the call centre. On performance days the Teatro di Verdura box-office is open from 7.15pm.
Concessions
Under 26, Under35 Card holders, 2020 subscribers, #iorinuncio al rimborso donors, 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. 6 seats in section 1 are reserved for people with disabilities and their companions for each performance (at the fare of gradinata) - check with the box-office for further info. You will be required to show your ID/certificate to get the concession price.