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strong>Saturday April 20 | Main Stage
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
Voce dal mare Maria Cristina Napoli
Narrators Pietro Massaro and Oriana Martucci
Teatro Massimo Orchestra and Chorus
Chorus Master Salvatore Punturo
with the classes of IC Rita Atria and IC Guglielmo Marconi
Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Massimo
Chorus Master Salvatore Punturo
Conductor Michele De Luca / Daniele Malinverno
Voce dal mare Maria Cristina Napoli / Natasa Kátai
Narrators Pietro Massaro and Oriana Martucci
with pupils and teachers of the schools IC Rita Atria and IC Guglielmo Marconi
Duration: 1 hour
For audiences aged 6 to 12 (and their families)
Tickets
15 / 10 / 5 €
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.
Gallery
Spoken parts of the performance are in Italian; a basic understanding of the language is adviced.
This Saturday performance is open to everyone.
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
Conductor Michele De Luca
Dramaturgy and Acting Paolo Migone
Massimo Kids Orchestra
Paolo Migone explains that classical music is not something incomprehensible or particularly strange, but is first and foremost music.
So why not let ourselves be moved and involved by the music of the great composers? Migone guides us into a universe unknown to many, and he does it in his own way, with absolute originality, lots of irony and without any prejudice or pretentious snobbery. The show is engaging, entertaining, enriched by slides, and in the narration four of the most incredible musicians in the history of music are associated with the four elements: Vivaldi with the water, Bach with the earth, Mozart with the air, Beethoven with the fire, as if to emphasise the indispensability of music for humanity.
Tickets: from 10€ to 25€
This performance is in Italian. A basic knowledge of the language is advised.
Programme
Music by
J. S. Bach, A. Vivaldi, W. A. Mozart, L. van Beethoven
Gallery
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Friday, March 8 2024, 8:30pm | Foyer
Conductor Mojca Lavrenčič
Teatro Massimo Orchestra
Tickets: Full price 15€ / Concession 12€
Programme
Anna Amalia von Sachsen Weimar Eisenach
Ouverture from Erwin und Elmire
Fanny Mendelssohn
Ouverture in C major
Louise Farrenc
Symphony n. 3 in G minor op. 36
Emilie Mayer
Ouverture n. 2 in D major
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Saturday May 18 2024, 8:30pm | Foyer
Conductor Salvatore Punturo
Female Chorus and Youth Chorus of the Teatro Massimo
Piano Giuseppe Cinà
Tickets: Full price 15€ / Concession price 12€
Programme
Giuseppe Verdi
Cori di Streghe da Macbeth:
“Che faceste”
“S’allontanarono”
“Tre volte miagola”
Georges Bizet
da Carmen
“Dans l’air nous suivons des yeux”
“Que se passe-t-il donc… Au secours!”
Zuniga (baritono) Alessio Gatto Goldstein
Johannes Brahms
Ave Maria op. 12
Gabriel Fauré
Le ruisseau
mezzosoprano Loredana Megna
Gustav Mahler
“Es sungen drei Engel” dalla Terza Sinfonia
Contralto Damiana Li Vecchi
Campane Silvia De Checchi
Pëtr Il’ič Čajkovskij
Coro delle contadine da Evgenij Onegin
Sergej Prokofiev
Due cori per coro femminile e orchestra op. 7
1. Il cigno bianco
2. L’onda
Giuseppe Ricotta
The Moon da Creation Suite
Chorus in the Foyer
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
Event Info
Invitation to Listening for Quattro canti per Santa Rosalia
This conference is in Italian.
Free entrance
Saint Rosalia is the patron saint of Palermo and has been worshipped over the centuries not only through religious events but also by spectacular events in baroque style, in which music often played a leading role.
“4 Canti per Santa Rosalia” opens the 2024 Summer events of the Teatro Massimo, making a link with these events thanks to new music, commissioned to four composers. Together with the creators of the show and experts in the history of music in Palermo in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries we will take a journey through time to rediscover an ancient tradition.
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 Associazione Amici del Teatro Massimo.
Speakers
Speakers
Giuseppe Collisani, Consuelo Giglio, Ilaria Grippaudo, Fabrizio Lupo
Moderator
Anna Tedesco
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Friday, June 14 2024, 8:30pm | Foyer
Conductor Salvatore Punturo
Pianoforte Giuseppe Cinà
Teatro Massimo Chorus and Youth Chorus
Soprano Gabriella Barresi
Mezzosoprano Ambra Abbisogni
Tenor Gianmarco Randazzo
Bass Federico Cucinotta
Tickets: Full price 15€ / Concession 12€
Programme
Giuseppe Verdi
from La traviata:
“Noi siamo zingarelle” and “Di Madride noi siam mattadori”
Flora Ambra Abbisogni
Marchese Federico Cucinotta
“Si ridesti in ciel l’aurora”
“Libiamo nei lieti calici”
Gaetano Donizetti
“Che interminabile andirivieni” from Don Pasquale
Georges Bizet
from Carmen:
“Dans l’air nous suivons des yeux”
Habanera “L’amour est un oiseau rebelle”
Carmen Ambra Abbisogni
“Avec la garde montante”
“Voici la quadrille”
from Les pêcheurs de perles:
“Sur la grève en feu”
“L’ombre descend des cieux”
“Dès que le soleil”
Pëtr Il’ič Čajkovskij
from Evgenij Onegin:
Peasants’ Choir (Act I)
“Vot tak surpris” (Act II)
Capitano Federico Cucinotta
The artists
August 2 2024 – 9pm | Staircase, Teatro Massimo
Stairway to the Stars
Homage to Puccini
FREE EVENT
Concert included in the training and artistic growth of the Youth Ensembles of the Teatro Massimo Foundation
Info
This event
is free. Come join us on the Main Staircase of the Teatro Massimo!
About
Livestreaming Concert
#apertinonostantetutto (We keep going, regardless)
The Concert will be livestreamed on: Teatro Massimo WebTv, Teatro Massimo Youtube channel, ANSA Press and Anfols WebTv.
Conductor Omer Meir Wellber
Teatro Massimo Orchestra
Programme
Claude Debussy
Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
Gabriel Fauré
Pelléas et Mélisande, suite op. 80
Franz Schubert
Symphony No. 8 in B minor D. 759 “Unfinished”
Photo © Rosellina Garbo