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Creative cast
Creative direction Luca Pintacuda
Artistic direction Antonino Serafino
Screenplay Fabrizio Pedone
Music and live performances Giulia Tagliavia, Giovanni Magaglio
Interaction Design Alessandro Disingrini, Albert Julius Cabri
Designers Lidia Falletta, Serena Pantaleo, Claudia Rago, John Mark Poultry, Rosaria Gallè
Tickets
Biglietti
Full price €12 + €8 guided tour
Reduced (under 26 and card under 35) €8 + €6 guided tour
Reduced price for school groups €4 + €3 guided tour
Free: one accompanying teacher for every 10 students, H students and their support teachers
It is also possible to purchase the show only (without the guided tour)
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Highlights
An experience in which the public will find itself surrounded by projections, lights, music; a one-of-a-kind show in which the stages, the ceiling and the holographic sheets become the projection surfaces on which the narrative develops. Over the centuries, the harmonies and disharmonies of nature have inspired musicians and composers who have tried to translate into music the alternation of the seasons, the noises produced by natural phenomena, by living beings, by the movements of the cosmos. “Sounds in Extinction” questions and questions the viewer on the relationship between music, art and the natural environment, and on the evolution of this relationship in relation to a world that is increasingly artificial, urban, virtual and the danger of the progressive disappearance of entire ecosystems.
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Dates
- 19 December11:00 AMTeatro Massimo19 December12:00 PMTeatro Massimo21 December11:00 AMTeatro Massimo21 December12:00 PMTeatro Massimo22 December11:00 AMTeatro Massimo22 December12:00 PMTeatro Massimo23 December11:00 AMTeatro Massimo23 December8:30 PMTeatro Massimo27 December5:00 PMTeatro Massimo27 December6:30 PMTeatro Massimo
About
This event is in Italian.
Tickets (3 euros) available at the box-office and online.
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).
Photo Fausto Brigantino
Programme
Beatrice Monroy
presents Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner with Rinaldo Clementi and Stefania Blandeburgo.
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Dates
- 14 May6:00 PMSala Onu
About
Cantoria of the Teatro Massimo Foundation
Choirmaster Giuseppe Ricotta
Tickets: Full-price 10€ / Reduced-price 8€
Programme
Lead Belly
Bring Me Little Water Sylvie
Johann Sebastian Bach
Aria sulla quarta corda
David Lang
He was and she was da Love Fail
Giuseppe Ricotta
Contemporary Mass n. 1 “Anima Mundi”
Kyrie – Gloria – Sanctus – Benedictus – Lux Aeterna – Agnus Dei
Ola Gjeilo
Tundra
Giuseppe Ricotta
Che colpa ho?
Leonard Cohen
Hallelujah (arr. Alberto Maniaci)
Medley da Sister Act
Hail Holy Queen, I will follow Him, Shout (arr. Marc Saiman)
Smokey Robinson My Guy/My God
Amazing grace – Oh happy day (arr. Giuseppe Ricotta)Merwyn Warren Joyful, joyful
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Dates
- 9 March8:30 PMFoyer10 March8:30 PMFoyer
About
Saturday May 18 2024, 8:30pm | Foyer
Conductor Salvatore Punturo
Female Chorus and Youth Chorus of the Teatro Massimo
Piano Giuseppe CinàTickets: 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 GoldsteinJohannes Brahms
Ave Maria op. 12
Gabriel Fauré
Le ruisseau
mezzosoprano Loredana MegnaGustav Mahler
“Es sungen drei Engel” dalla Terza Sinfonia
Contralto Damiana Li Vecchi
Campane Silvia De ChecchiPëtr 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’ondaGiuseppe Ricotta
The Moon da Creation Suite
Chorus in the Foyer
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Dates
- 18 May8:30 PMFoyer
About
This event is in Italian.
Free entrance
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.
Programme
Dario Oliveri
presents Lady, Be Good by George Gershwin.
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Dates
- 14 June6:00 PMSala Onu
About
March 20 – 23 2024 | Main Stage, Teatro Massimo
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 (March 20, 22) / Michele De Luca (March 21)
Voce dal mare Natasa Kátai (March 21) / Maria Cristina Napoli (March 20, 22)
Narrators Pietro Massaro and Oriana Martucci
Teatro Massimo Orchestra and Chorus
Chorus Master Salvatore Punturo
with pupils and teachers of the schools IC Alessandra Siragusa and Istituto Minutoli EcoscuolaFor audiences aged 6 to 12 | Reservations from January 10th
Photographs Franco Lannino
Tickets
Students 5 €
Full price 12 €
Reduced price 10 €
For more informationProgramme
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.
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Spoken parts of the performance are in Italian; a basic understanding of the language is adviced.
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.
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Dates
- 20 March10:00 AMMain Stage20 March11:45 AMMain Stage21 March10:00 AMMain Stage21 March11:45 AMMain Stage22 March10:00 AMMain Stage22 March11:45 AMMain Stage
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 JacobssonPalermo 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 pianoFranco 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 islandFranco Mannino
I gatti op.508 on a text by Melo Freni
for reciting voice and pianoFranco Mannino
Sonata op. 115 no. 3
for pianoFranco Mannino
Italian Suite op. 408
for clarinet and piano
– Giga
– Aria
– GagliardaFranco Mannino
Paraphrase from “Vivì” op. 412
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Dates
- 30 May8:30 PMMain Stage
About
This event is in Italian.
Free entrance
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.
Programme
Lucio Tufano
presents Turandot by Giacomo Puccini.
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Dates
- 12 September6:00 PMSala Onu
About
April 16 – 20 2024 | Main Stage, Teatro Massimoby Venti Lucentiinspired by Richard Wagner‘s Tristan und Isolde
Written and directed by Manu Lalli
Assistant Director Chiara Casalbuoni
Original music, arrangements and transcriptions Simone PirainoConductor Michele De Luca (April 16, 17, 19) / Daniele Malinverno (April 18, 20)
Voce dal mare Natasa Kátai (April 16, 17, 19) / Maria Cristina Napoli (April 18, 20)
Narrators Pietro Massaro and Oriana Martucci
Teatro Massimo Orchestra and Chorus
Chorus Master Salvatore Punturo
with pupils and teachers of the schools IC Rita Atria and IC Guglielmo Marconi
Teatro Massimo Orchestra and Chorus
Chorus Master Salvatore PunturoFor audiences aged 6 to 12 | School reservations open on January 10th
Tickets
Students 5 €
Full price 12 €
Reduced price 10 €
For more informationProgramme
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.
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.
The performance on Saturday April 20 is open to everyone.
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Dates
- 16 April11:30 AMMain Stage17 April10:00 AMMain Stage17 April11:45 AMMain Stage18 April10:00 AMMain Stage18 April11:45 AMMain Stage19 April10:00 AMMain Stage19 April11:45 AMMain Stage