About
July 5 and 6 2025, 21pm | Main Stage
Bernstein – Barber – Dvořák
Conductor Salvatore Punturo
Teatro Massimo Chorus and Orchestra Ensemble
Running time: 55 minutes (without intermission)
Tickets
Bookings open on Tuesday, June 3
Price range: 10 – 25 euro
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Programme
Antonín Dvořák
Te deum
Soprano Emanuela Sala
Baritone Salvatore Grigoli
Piano Claudio Marchetti
Samuel Barber
Agnus Dei
Piano Claudio Marchetti
Leonard Bernstein
Chichester Psalms
Voce bianca Simona Forte (5) / Maria Vittoria Cuccia (6)
Soprano Adelaide Minnone
Contralto Daniela My
Tenore Gianmarco Randazzo
Basso Federico Cucinotta
Harp Francesca Luppino
Percussions Silvia De Checchi
Organ Pasquale Lo Cascio
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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
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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)
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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
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Programme
Johannes Brahms
Ein deutsches Requiem (four-hands piano version)
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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)
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Ph. Franco Lannino
About
Free entrance
Conductor Michele De Luca
Concept, direction Marco Canzoneri
Music by Giuseppe Verdi
Orchestration Salvatore Nogara
Music Assistant and arrangements Vincenzo Alioto
Assistant Director and arrangements Manlio Messina
Scene Designs Stefano Canzoneri
Video Gianluigi Toccafondo
Lighting Designs Leonardo Librizzi
A production of the Teatro Massimo
Soprano Federica Maggì
Symphonic Band of the Massimo Youth Orchestra
Coro Cittadino dei quartieri Danisinni, Roccella/Sperone e ZEN diretti da Manlio Messina
Cantoria del Teatro Massimo diretta da Salvatore Punturo e Giuseppe Ricotta
Programme
A Project of the Fondazione Teatro Massimo
loosely inspired by La traviata by Giuseppe Verdi
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with the support of Città metropolitana di Palermo

Backstage video
Getting to Danisinni Farm
Danisinni Farm (Fattoria di Danisinni) is located in Piazza Danisinni, about 25 minutes walk from the Teatro Massimo.
About
We regret to inform the audience that the concert has been canceled and postponed due to the adverse weather conditions.
The concert will soon be rescheduled; please notice that tickets will NOT be valid for the new date.
REFUNDS
The box-office will be available until August 4 for refunds to audience members who purchased their tickets at the box-office or by phone.
If you bought your ticket online through TicketOne you will receive a refund automatically on the credit card used at the time of purchase.
We are sorry for the inconvenience.
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Conductor Salvatore Punturo
Teatro Massimo Cantoria and Youth Chorus
Piano Giuseppe Ricotta
Narrator Alessandra Urrata
Tickets
Full price: 20 €
Concession: 16 €
Card Under35: 10 €
Programme
Ennio Morricone
Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (SE)
Lead Belly
Bring Me Little Water Sylvie
David Lang
da Love fail, n. 1. He was and she was
Bob Chilcott
Can you hear me?
Johannes Brahms
Ave Maria
Antonio Fortunato
Il Signore è il mio pastore
Giuseppe Ricotta
Be Silent
Bruno Coulais
Vois sur ton chemin
Compère Guilleri
Giuseppe Ricotta
Agnus Dei da Anima Mundi
Ola Gjeilo
Tundra
Giuseppe Ricotta
A la fimminisca
Rosalia