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October 22-23, 2025 | Main Stage, Teatro Massimo
from 5 to 13 years old | Bookings from 20 January, 2025
Written and directed by Manu Lalli
Original music and arrangements Simone Piraino
Teatro Massimo Orchestra and Chorus
Chorus Master Salvatore Punturo
Written and directed by Manu Lalli
Original music and arrangements Simone Piraino
Assistant Director Chiara Casalbuoni
Scene Designs Daniele Leone
Conductor Daniele Malinverno / Michele De Luca
Voce dell’alba Maria Cristina Napoli / Fabiola Galati
Voce del tramonto Sonia Sala
Luna Alessandra Falanga
Fata Isabella Sciortino
Direttore del Circo Giuseppe Randazzo
Teatro Massimo Orchestra and Chorus
Chorus Master Salvatore Punturo
With the classes of the primary school D.D. Garzilli
Educational Workshops Assistants Angela Ribaudo, Patrizia Veneziano Broccia
A production of the Teatro Massimo
Tickets
Students 5 €
Full price 12 €
Reduced price 10 €
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Programme
The plot
A funny little man descends one evening from a moonbeam and finds himself in the fascinating circus life populated by acrobats, clowns, knife throwers, ferocious animals, tamers, and lots of music…
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Spoken parts of the performance are in Italian; a basic understanding of the language is adviced.
This is an event 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.
Videos by Venti Lucenti
SINGING LESSON
SCENIC MOVEMENTS
sPoster
About
The historic Magazine published by La Biennale di Venezia, brought back to life after 53 years of silence
A greeting from Marco Betta
General Manager of the Teatro Massimo
Presentation by Debora Rossi
Manager of the Historical Archive of the Biennale
Pietrangelo Buttafuoco
President of the Venice Biennale
Free entrance
Recommended booking by writing to info.asac@labiennale.org
Access to the Hall of Coats of Arms will be through the main entrance (Piazza Verdi).
The Hall can also be reached via the accessible path without steps with elevator (upon arrival in the Theatre contact the staff for more information).
The Magazine
Presentation
Reborn after 53 years since its last publication, the Journal is part of the activities of the Historical Archive of the Biennale. Conceived and produced exclusively in print, the Magazine features a significant iconographic apparatus that draws largely from the Historical Archive of La Biennale and from national and international photographic research. Published quarterly, each issue will be monographic in focus, establishing a dialogue between the disciplines that distinguish La Biennale di Venezia – visual arts, architecture, dance, music, theatre, cinema – while also venturing into the realms of science and literature. .
Interventions, testimonies, interviews, dialogues and unpublished and exclusive contributions are signed by artists, scholars and important figures of the cultural panorama and civil society, both Italian and international. Multiplicity of languages and freedom of expression characterize the Magazine, which gives ample space to graphic experimentation and contamination between different forms and codes.
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Souls in Limbo, beyond Boundaries
The presentation of the new 2025-2026 season of operas, ballets and concerts took place in the enchanting Art Nouveau hall of Villa Igiea, Rocco Forte Hotel, a partner of the Foundation.
Souls in Limbo, Beyond Borders is the title and the invisible thread that runs through the entire season, weaving an underground plot that unites works and ballets, eras and styles, tradition and vision. It is the plot of characters suspended on the brink of something: an impossible love, a fatal choice, an inner transformation.
The emotional focus of the season is on the female protagonists: from Zemfira to Nedda, from Gilda to Dido, from Aida to Amneris, to Semiramide.
The season explores the dramatic power of their stories, often marked by exclusion, strength and sacrifice, and does so in dialogue with the great issues of our time, such as the fight against gender-based violence and for the rights of children and adolescents.
Discover the 2025-26 Season
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Presentation
The Season
‘Souls in Limbo, Beyond Borders’ is the title and the invisible thread that runs through the entire season, weaving an underground plot that unites works and ballets, eras and styles, tradition and vision. It is the plot of characters suspended on the brink of something: an impossible love, a fatal choice, an inner transformation. This is a season of blurred boundaries, of those territories where dream and reality intertwine, where art becomes life and fiction becomes revelation. A season where the main characters live permanently suspended on a threshold between desire and duty, the self and the other, light and shadow. The protagonists face not certainties but shadows, mists, mirrors that sometimes reflect clearly, sometimes distort reality. Not safe havens, but fertile anxieties. The theatrical scene thus becomes a mirror of the human condition: fragile, changeable, deeply true.
All the staff and artists of the Teatro Massimo Foundation will be involved in the operas, ballets and concerts: the Orchestra, Chorus, Ballet, Youth Chorus as well as the Set Design Workshops.
The Season includes titles taken from the great repertoire, new productions, visionary reinterpretations, international co-productions and an artistic and symbolic journey that explores the thresholds of existence: between light and shadow, reality and imagination, destiny and desire.
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17 – 19 December |Main Stage
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
Full price: 12 €
Concession: 10 €
Students: 5 €
Free entrance for 1 teacher every 10 students, students with disabilities and their support teachers
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.
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Saturday, September 13, 2025, 8:30 p.m. | Foyer
Conductor Salvatore Punturo
Teatro Massimo Women’s Choir
Piano Claudio Marchetti
Tickets: Full price €15 / Reduced price €12
Programme
Giuseppe Verdi
Chorus of Witches from Macbeth
“Che faceste”
“S’allontanarono”
“Tre volte miagola”
Georges Bizet
from Carmen
“Dans l’air nous suivons des yeux”
“Que se passe-t-il donc… Au secours!”
Zuniga Federico Cucinotta
Johannes Brahms
Ave Maria op. 12
Gabriel Fauré
Ave Maria op. 67
Maria Mater gratiae op. 47
Tantum ergo op. 65
Soprano Adelaide Minnone
Mezzosoprano Lorena Scarlata
Contralto Monica Iraci
Le ruisseau
Pëtr Il’ič Čajkovskij
Peasants’ Chorus from Evgenij Onegin
Sergej Prokofiev
Two choruses for female Chorus and Orchestra, Op. 7
1. The White Swan
2. The Wave
Giuseppe Ricotta
The Moon fro Creation Suite
Poster
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from September 19 to September 25 | Sala Stemmi
Concept, direction and choreography Lucia Ermetto
Frida’s Moods Simona Filippone, Romina Leone, Jessica Tranchina
Piano Giorgio Mirandola
Teatro Massimo Ballet
Ballet Director Jean-Sébastien Colau
Tickets
Full price: 10 €
Concession for students: 4 €
Concession: 8 €
The plot
The plot
A unique and engaging show that will take us on a journey of discovery into the extraordinary life and art of one of the most iconic artists of the 20th century, a symbol of strength, passion and determination. Through dance, music and theatre, we will explore the deepest facets of Frida Kahlo: her personal challenges, intense relationships, passion for Mexico and her political commitment.
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Ph. Franco Lannino
Poster
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Dates
- 19 September4:30 PMSala degli Stemmi19 September6:00 PMSala degli Stemmi20 September4:30 PMSala degli Stemmi20 September6:00 PMSala degli Stemmi23 September11:30 AMSala degli Stemmi24 September11:30 AMSala degli Stemmi25 September11:30 AMSala degli Stemmi
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Friday, September 26, ore 8:30 p.m. – Monumental Staircase
Piano City Palermo – Opening
Pianist Francesca Tandoi
Free admission subject to availability
From 26 to 28 September, the 8th edition of PIANO CITY PALERMO will take place, a free piano festival that transforms the city into a large stage, featuring talented artists from Sicily and around the world.
Programme
Programme
Jazz
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Sunday, September 28, at 4:30 p.m. and 5:45 p.m.
Young pianists at Villa Trabia
Pianists Leonardo Massa, Giuseppe Cinà (4:30 p.m.) / Enrico Gargano, Sara La Barbera (5:45 p.m.)
Free admission subject to availability
From 26 to 28 September, the 8th edition of PIANO CITY PALERMO will take place, a free piano festival that transforms the city into a large stage, featuring talented artists from Sicily and around the world.
Programme
Programme
Classical music
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Sunday November 30, 8:00pm, Main Stage
Concert for Peace
Orchestra Sinfonica Italiana
Conductor Marek Wroniszewski
Violin Riccardo Obiso
Piano Gianfranco Pappalardo Fiumara, Giulio PotenzaOrchestra Sinfonica Italiana
The concert is organized by the Istituto Culturale Musicale Italiano Alessandro Scarlatti
Artistic Director Nicolò Fiorenza
Programme
Pëtr Il'ič Čajkovskij
Ouverture Solennelle 1812
Camille Saint-Saëns
Introduction and Rondò capriccioso for violin and orchestra, Op. 28
Solo Violin Riccardo ObisoFranz Schubert
La morte e la fanciulla
Revision for grand orchestra Giuseppe CrapisiFrancis Poulenc
Concerto for two pianos and orchestra in D minor
Soloists Gianfranco Pappalardo Fiumara, Giulio PotenzaThe Poster
