About
Cenere
opera – inquiry by Gery Palazzotto
with Gigi Borruso
music by Marco Betta, Fabio Lannino, Diego Spitaleri
cello Antonino Saladino
coreographers and dancers Alessandro Cascioli e Yuriko Nishihara
artworks Francesco De Grandi
graphic designs Azzurra Messina
videomaking Antonio Di Giovanni and Davide Vallone
with the Massimo Youth Orchestra
conducted by Michele De Luca
Highlights
Highlights
There is a tragic Italian story that is turning thirty these days, but which originates in an indefinite time.
In an incredible sequence of anomalies, judicial follies, unexpiated sins, omissions, and unprecedented “unspoken words”. It is the story of a roar, or rather two. Of a pyre of bodies and hopes, of criminal promises and institutional betrayals. It is the story of the Capaci and Via D’Amelio massacres and of a criminal plan that matures behind the most granite wall of protection, that of organized confusion: because in Italy there is no safer refuge than the kingdom of disorder. It is the story of the greatest diversion of this country. Of infidels of the State, creators and promoters of a reality that has swallowed up every form of justice, of truth, even of verisimilitude.
It is the story of what remains. Ashes.
After The Stolen Words and The Traitors, a new investigative work by Gery Palazzotto closes the circle on the mysteries of the 1992 massacres in which Giovanni Falcone, Francesca Morvillo, Paolo Borsellino and the escort agents Vito Schifani, Rocco Dicillo, Antonio Montinaro, Agostino Catalano, Emanuela Loi, Vincenzo Li Muli, Walter Eddie Cosina and Claudio Traina died.
With music by Marco Betta, Fabio Lannino and Diego Spitaleri, narration by Gigi Borruso, choreography by Alessandro Cascioli and Yuriko Nishihara, artwork by Francesco De Grandi, “Cenere” is a global work that uses new languages to address old collective wounds. A sort of magnifying glass that analyses the fundamental steps that led to that indecent criminal masterpiece that is – by the judges’ definition – the most sensational cover-up in the Italian Republic.
Accessing the opera house
Members of the audience are required to wear a type FFP2 or N95 face mask for as long as they stay into the theatre. Body temperature is checked upon arrival.
Where to buy your tickets
At the Box-office, online on TicketOne.it, by calling the call centre.
Using a Voucher
You can use the voucher you received for a 2020 canceled performance to buy tickets. Vouchers are valid for 36 months after the issuing date. Please notice that vouchers issued by TicketOne and the selling points can only be used to buy online on ticketone.it. Vouchers issued by the box-office and the call center can be used at the box-office and at the call center.
Concessions
Under 26, Under35 Card holders, 2022 subscribers, #iorinuncioalrimborso 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 the stalls (section 1) are reserved for people with disabilities and their companions for each performance (at the fare of section 7) - check with the box-office for further info.
You will be required to show your ID/certificate to get concession prices.
Photo © Rosellina Garbo
About
Prometeo
Musical and Visual Installations on the Myth
Conductor Gabriele Ferro
Live performance Director and video MASBEDO
Dramatic composition Klaus-Peter Kehr
Performer Sabino Civilleri
Visual dramatic composition Mariano Furlani
Pianoforte Roberto Cominati
Teatro Massimo Orchestra and Chorus
Chorus Master Ciro Visco
Livestreaming on the Teatro Massimo WebTV (June 3)
More info
Franz List
Prometheus symphonic poem
Ludwig van Beethoven
The Creatures of Prometheus
Ouverture and a selection from Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus op. 43
Alexander Scriabin
Prométhée. Le Poème du feu, op. 60
Accessing the opera house
Members of the audience are required to wear a type FFP2 or N95 face mask for as long as they stay into the theatre. Body temperature is checked upon arrival.
Where to buy your tickets
At the Box-office, online on TicketOne.it, by calling the call centre.
Using a Voucher
You can use the voucher you received for a 2020 canceled performance to buy tickets. Vouchers are valid for 36 months after the issuing date. Please notice that vouchers issued by TicketOne and the selling points can only be used to buy online on ticketone.it. Vouchers issued by the box-office and the call center can be used at the box-office and at the call center.
Concessions
Under 26, Under35 Card holders, 2022 subscribers, #iorinuncioalrimborso 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 the stalls (section 1) are reserved for people with disabilities and their companions for each performance (at the fare of section 7) - check with the box-office for further info.
You will be required to show your ID/certificate to get concession prices.
Photo © Rosellina Garbo
About
Giacomo Puccini
Manon Lescaut
(in concert form)
Conductor Jader Bignamini
Teatro Massimo Orchestra and Chorus
Chorus Master Ciro Visco
Live streaming on the Teatro Massimo WebTV on October 21.
Cast
Cast
Manon Anna Pirozzi (21, 23) / Maria José Siri (22, 24)
Des Grieux Yusif Eyvazov (21) / Carlo Ventre (22, 24) / Stefano La Colla (23)
Lescaut Alessio Arduini (21, 23) / Andrea Vincenzo Bonsignore (22, 24)
Geronte di Ravoir Luca Dall’Amico
Edmondo, maestro di ballo e lampionaio Matteo Mezzaro
L’oste Giuseppe Esposito
Il musico Adriana Di Paola
Sergente degli arcieri Antonio Barbagallo
Comandante di marina Cosimo Diano
New Guidelines for the Audience
Upon reopening in June 2020, the Teatro Massimo has established new safety and health guidelines for the people who will access the theatre during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Please read them before purchasing your tickets.
Where to buy your tickets
Tickets on sale at at the Box-office, through the call center and online on TicketOne.it
Concessions
Young people under 26 anni, Under35 Card holders, 2020 subscribers, 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. People with disabilities and their companions can access accessible seats in section 1 at the concession price for section 2 seats. All donors #iorinuncioalrimborso are granted the Under35 discount for the "Sotto una nuova luce" performances.
If purchasing a concession priced ticket please bring proof of eligibility with you.
Photo © Franco Lannino
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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
Read the press release
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.
About
Direttore e maestro del Coro Ciro Visco
Soprano Maria Francesca Mazzara
Controtenore Riccardo Angelo Strano
Baritono Marcello Rosiello
Pianoforti Pasquale Lo Cascio, Giuseppe Cinà
Coro e Percussioni del Teatro Massimo
More info
Versione per due pianoforti e percussioni
Coro e Percussioni del Teatro Massimo
About
Serata di danza
Attore Gigi Borruso
Luci Salvatore Spataro
Costumi Fondazione Teatro Massimo
Corpo di ballo del Teatro Massimo
Direttore del Corpo di ballo Davide Bombana
More info
TANGO GENESIS
Coreografia di Marcello Carini
Musiche Philip Glass, Max Richter, André Dziezuk
ZONA TANGO
Coreografia di Alessandro Cascioli
Musiche Gerardo Matos Rodríguez, Silencio Tango Orchestra, Zona Tango
PASSO A DUE DA CARMEN
Coreografia di Amedeo Amodio
Musica Georges Bizet
Étoiles ospiti Eleonora Abbagnato e Michele Satriano
PLAYING TANGO
Coreografia di Gaetano La Mantia
Musiche Alessandro Russo, Fabio Hager Sexteto, Leroy Anderson, Astor Piazzolla
CONTACT TANGO
Coreografia di Jean-Sébastien Colau e Vincenzo Veneruso
Musica Stefano Conti
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About
24, 26, 28, 29 October and 2 November 2023 |Main Stage, Teatro Massimo
Notice to the audience
The Fondazione Teatro Massimo informs the public that the Premiere of the opera “Don Giovanni” has not taken place, following the adhesion of the theatre workers to the national strike (called by the national secretariats SLC – CGIL, FISTEL – CISL, UILCOM – UIL, FIALS – CISAL) for the renewal of the National Collective Labour Contract of the Lyric Symphonic Foundations.
Thanks to the availability of Maestro Riccardo Muti and of the entire cast, the theatre has scheduled a performance on Sunday October 29th at 8 p.m.
Subscribers and ticket holders of the Premiere (October 24th) may attend the new performance, scheduled for Sunday October 29th at 8.00 p.m., using the same ticket and keeping the same seat. If unable to attend the new performance on Sunday October 29th, subscribers and ticket holders may still request a refund. [Refund info here]
We apologize to the audience for the inconvenience, thank you for your understanding.
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Conductor Riccardo Muti
Director Chiara Muti
Scene Design Alessandro Camera
Costume Design Tommaso Lagattolla
Lighting Design Vincent Longuemare
Assistant Director Paolo Vettori
Assistent Scene Design Andrea Gregori
Assistant Costume Design Francesco Ceo
A new production of the Teatro Massimo
in co-production with Teatro Regio di Torino
Cast
Don Giovanni Luca Micheletti
Donna Anna Maria Grazia Schiavo
Donna Elvira Mariangela Sicilia
Don Ottavio Giovanni Sala
Leporello Alessandro Luongo
Zerlina Francesca Di Sauro
Masetto Leon Košavić
Il Commendatore Vittorio De Campo
Maestro at the fortepiano Alessandro Benigni
Teatro Massimo Orchestra and Chorus
Chorus Master Salvatore Punturo
riccardomuti.com
More info
Bookings open on
September 5 2023
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About
From 19 to 25 May 2023 |Main Stage, Teatro Massimo
Music Pëtr Il’ič Čajkovskij
Conductor Omer Meir Wellber
Director Julien Chavaz
Associate Director Annemiek van Elst
Scene Designs Amber Vandenhoeck
Costume Designs Sanne Oostervink
Lighting Design Eloi Gianini
Assistant Director Fleur Snow
Costume Designs Assistant Maartje Prins, Nadine Hempel
Russian Coach Stanislav Chernyshov
Cast
Larina Helene Schneiderman
Tat’jana Carmen Giannattasio (19, 21, 23, 25) / Natalia Tanasii (20, 24)
Olga Victoria Karkacheva
Filipp’evna Margarita Nekrasova
Evgenij Onegin Artur Rucinski (19, 21, 23, 25) / Nikolai Zemlianskikh (20, 24)
Vladimir Lenskij Saimir Pirgu (19, 21, 23, 25) / Pavel Petrov (20, 24)
Principe Gremin Giorgi Manoshvili
Monsieur Triquet/Un contadino James Kryshak
Zareckij/Un capitano Andrii Ganchuk
Teatro Massimo Orchestra and Chorus
Chorus Master Salvatore Punturo
More info
Biglietti in vendita dal
2 aprile 2023
Running Time
Three hours and 10 minutes with two 15 minutes intermissions
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About
From19 to 21, 23,24 and 26 September 2023 |Main Stage, Teatro Massimo
Opera in three acts
by Christoph Willibald Gluck
Conductor Gabriele Ferro
Director and Coreographer Danilo Rubeca
Scene Designs Domenico Franchi
Costume Designs Alessio Rosati
Lighting Designs Marco Giusti
Assistant Director & Coreographer Emanuele Burrafato
Assistant Scene Designs Francesca Nieddu
Assistant Costume Designs Rosa Mariotti
New production
Teatro Massimo Orchestra, Chorus and Ballet
Chorus Master Salvatore Punturo
Ballet Director Jean-Sébastien Colau
Cast
Orfeo Filippo Mineccia
Euridice Federica Guida
Amore Nofar Yacobi
Teatro Massimo Orchestra, Chorus and Ballet
Chorus Master Salvatore Punturo
Ballet Director Jean-Sébastien Colau
Running time: 1 hour and 40 minutes without interval
The Premiere (Sept 19) will be available in free livestreaming on the Teatro Massimo WebTV
Listening Guides (in Italian)
• Thursday September 14, 6pm in Sala Onu, Invito all’ascolto by the Friends of del Teatro Massimo with Lorenzo Mattei
• Tuesday September 19, 6:30pm in Sala Onu, Vi racconto l’opera with Beatrice Monroy, Sabrina Petyx e Gigi Borruso
Synopsis
Act I
A chorus of nymphs and shepherds sings a mourning hymn around the tomb of Eurydice (“Ah, se intorno a quest’urna funesta”). Orpheus asks them to leave him alone, and express his grief for the death of his wife, his rage against the cruel gods, and his determination to bring Eurydice back to life (“Chiamo il mio ben così”). Cupid appears and tells Orpheus that Jove allows him to descend to the underworld to try to reclaim his wife. Orpheus must appease the Furies with his music and bring Eurydice back to the upper world without never looking at her or explaining his behaviour, otherwise he will lose her for ever (“Gli sguardi trattieni”). Orpheus heads to Hades with his lyre as only weapon.
Act II
The gates of Hades are guarded by Furies and demons, who threatens Orpheus with their dance (“Chi mai dell’Erebo fra le caligini”). Orpheus plays his lyre and sings his despair (“Deh, placatevi con me”). The Furies at first refuse to let him move on into the Elysian Fields. Then they are gradually touched by his laments and moved by his singing, and they let him pass the entrance of the underworld. The scene is now in the Elysian Fields. Orpheus arrives, seeking his beloved wife (“Che puro ciel”). The Blessed Spirits restore Eurydice, veiled, to Orpheus, and he hurries to lead her away, without looking at her.
Act III
Orpheus and Eurydice are on their road to the upper world. Eurydice, who doesn’t know of the gods injunction, is suspicious, and asks him to explain his behaviour or at least to look at her (“Vieni, appaga il tuo consorte”). Orpheus tries to keep his face turned away and to bring her to the upper world, but when she faints, he is forced to to infringe the gods’ will. As soon as their eyes meet, Eurydice dies again with a last farewell. Orpheus is desperate and about to kill himself (“Che farò senza Euridice”). Cupid appears and announces that Orpheus’ love and faith have moved again the gods. Eurydice is restored to life, and they will enjoy a new life of pleasures and love on earth (“Divo Amor, son tue pene”). Nymphs and shepherds celebrate with dances the power of Cupid (“Trionfi Amore”).
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The Poster
