About
Tuesday, January 26 2021, 08:00 pm
Livestreaming Performance on the Teatro Massimo WebTv
This event is part of the project #apertinonostantetutto (We keep going, regardless)
Conductor Omer Meir Wellber
Director, dramaturgy, Scenes, Costumes and Lighting Designs Johannes Erath
Video Bibi Abel
Chorus Master Ciro Visco
Youth Chorus Master Salvatore Punturo
Coreographer Dies Irae Davide Bombana
Assistant Director Lorenzo Nencini
Coreographic Movements Ugo Ranieri
Music by Claudio Monteverdi, Henry Purcell, Joseph Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven, Gioachino Rossini, Franz Schubert, Richard Wagner, Giuseppe Verdi, Modest Musorgskij, Arrigo Boito, Richard Strauss, Erich Korngold, Werner Richard Heymann, Chava Alberstein
Teatro Massimo Orchestra, Chorus, Ballet and Youth Chorus
Sound Project & Design Manfredi Clemente
Concept and Broadcasting co-ordinator Gery Palazzotto
Television Producer Antonio Di Giovanni
Cast
Cast
Soprano Carmen Giannattasio
Baritone Markus Werba
Basso Alexandros Stavrakakis
Highlights
Johannes Erath creates a site specific performance for the 2021 opening of the Teatro Massimo season, in live streaming, free of charge and accessible worldwide.
Il Crepuscolo dei Sogni (The Twilight of Dreams) is a site-specific opera by the German visionary director Johannes Erath who is making his debut in Italy and who is also responsible for the show’s dramaturgy and sets. Musical Director Omer Meir Wellber will be conducting. Every corner of the opera house becomes part of a wider stage, under a moonlight that tranforms everything it encounters. The scenic space will be completely transformed by the specifically created sets lit by a lunar light, immersed in a snow that covers and transfigures all shapes and forms. A different place that becomes the landscape of the soul and that recalls today’s condition, that of a disoriented and isolated humanity who has lost all certainties and reference points and is dealing with distances, separations, screens, and new communication modes. Within this suspended set, alternating hope and despondency, art and music remain the highest forms of hope.
Erath and Wellber thus create a musical “Winter Journey” through various moments from different operas, from Rossini to Verdi, from Monteverdi to the Lieder of Schubert and Richard Strauss, with the recurring presence of “Traviata”, whose protagonist is afflicted by a lung disease that reminds us of today’s human sufferings. This journey, that alternates contrasting feelings, culminates with the chorus from the Prologue of Arrigo Boito’s “Mefistofele” which, after showing us the most disenchanted and cynical aspects through Mefistofele’s aria, embodies the spirit that brings back light and hope, and with the final duet from Claudio Monteverdi’s “Incoronazione di Poppea”: two ecstatic moments, divine the first, terrestrial the second.
Photo © Rosellina Garbo
About
Soprano Anna Netrebko
Tenore Yusif Eyvazov
Direttore Michelangelo Mazza
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Massimo
Maestro del Coro Ciro Visco
Programme
Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi
“Fuoco di gioia” da Otello
“Già nella notte densa” da Otello
“Va pensiero” da Nabucco
“Libiamo ne’ lieti calici” da La traviata
Francesco Cilea
“Del sultano Amuratte… Io son l’umile ancella” da Adriana Lecouvreur
“È la solita storia del pastore” da L’arlesiana
Giacomo Puccini
“Vissi d’arte” da Tosca
“E lucevan le stelle” da Tosca
Intermezzo da Manon Lescaut
Antonín Dvořák
“Měsíčku na nebi hlubokém” (Canto alla Luna) da Rusalka
Umberto Giordano
“Colpito qui m’avete… Un dì all’azzurro spazio” da Andrea Chénier
Intermezzo da Fedora
“Vicino a te s’acqueta” da Andrea Chénier
Photo © Rosellina Garbo
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
Luca Della Libera
presents Mitridate Eupatore by Alessandro Scarlatti.
About
Sunday November 30, 8:00pm, Main Stage
Concert for Peace
Orchestra Sinfonica Italiana
Conductor Marek Wroniszewski
Violin Riccardo Obiso
Piano Gianfranco Pappalardo Fiumara, Giulio Potenza
Orchestra 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 Obiso
Franz Schubert
La morte e la fanciulla
Revision for grand orchestra Giuseppe Crapisi
Francis Poulenc
Concerto for two pianos and orchestra in D minor
Soloists Gianfranco Pappalardo Fiumara, Giulio Potenza
The Poster
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Thursday December 11 2025, 6:00pm, Sala Onu
Talking about Opera – La bohème
This event is in Italian.
The art of storytelling is made up of intertwined threads that open up the enchantment of listening.
Beatrice Monroy tell us the story of the opera La bohème with Gigi Borruso and Sabrina Petix.
The wonderful story of Mimì, Musetta and the four boys in the Parisian attic comes to Puccini from Henry Muger’s play, Scènes de la vie de Bohème.
A story of young people, hopes and loves that don’t know how to move forward.
Stories that break the melodrama of heroes – they are just ordinary people without a penny. That’s life.
We have chosen to open and close with two poems by Baudelaire; when you hear them, you will find they are just right for the occasion.
Tickets (3 euros) are 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).
About
The Project
Beatrice Monroy – with readings by Stefania Blandeburgo, Gigi Borruso, Rinaldo Clementi, Giuseppe Cutino, Consuelo Lupo, and Sabrina Petyx – recounts the plots of the Operas staged at the Teatro Massimo to the audience, as well as the historical and cultural references on which the librettists based their work.
Our aim is to bring to the audience the extraordinary stories that inspired the Masters to compose their masterpieces.
About
Tuesday April 14 2026, 8:30 pm | Main Stage
Reflections of time
Teatro Massimo Children’s Chorus
Teatro Massimo Cantoria
Massimo Youth Orchestra
Conductor Michele De Luca
Chorus Master Giuseppe Ricotta
Clarinet Antonio Nogara
Tickets
from 10 to 25 euros
Programme
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Eine kleine Nachtmusik
Leonard Bernstein
Overture from Candide
Bear McCreary
This wandering day (The rings of power) (arr. Giuseppe Ricotta)
Giuseppe Ricotta
Contemporary Mass n. 2 – “Miserere Nobis”
Gallery
Ph. Franco Lannino
About
Tuesday, August 10 2021, 09:15 pm
Please notice that a Digital Covid Certificate (Green Pass) is required to accesso the Teatro di Verdura.
Conductor Michele De Luca
Chorus Master Salvatore Punturo
Massimo Kids Orchestra
Cantoria, Youth Chorus and Rainbow Chorus of the Teatro Massimo
Coro di Danisinni
Master of the Coro di Danisinni Manlio Messina
Programme
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Contredance for orchestra in C major “La Bataille”
Three German dances K 605
Ave verum corpus K 618
Leopold Mozart
Sinfonia dei giocattoli (Kindersinfonie)
Alberto Maniaci
Siamo piccoli cantori
Naohiro Iwai
Disney Fantasy
Salvatore Scinaldi
Drep West
John Williams
Highlights from Harry Potter (arr. Michael Story)
Ramin Djawadi
Game of thrones
Giuseppe Ricotta
Soffio d’eterno
Simone Piraino
Omaggio a Dante Alighieri
Antonín Dvořák
Antonín’s New World (arr. Dizzy Stratford)
Salvatore Nogara
Kids Tango
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.
About
27 January, 2025 | Sala Grande, Teatro Massimo
from 11 to 18 years old | Bookings from November 25, 2024
with Margherita Mannino
Dramaturgy Daniela Palumbo
Director Lorenzo Maragoni
Costume Designs Silvana Galota
Original music by Filippo Cosentino
Technical Director Alberto Gottardi
Sound designer Marco Labruna
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M.i.l.k. – Minds In a Lovely Karma production
under the patronage of Associazione Figli della Shoah and Comunità Ebraica di Venezia
In collaboration with La Piccionaia Centro di Produzione Teatrale
Tickets
Students 5 €
Full price 12 €
Reduced price 10 €
For more information
Programme
The plot
A painful, unforgettable story of Liliana Segre being deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp when she was only 13 years old. A story of which the world must become the bearer in order to pass on what has been and must never happen again. A story that stems from the personal need to help young consciences become familiar with painful facts that are part of our past through the most suitable tools.
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.
About
27 – 30 January 2026 | Main Stage
Aida anime di sabbia
with Giuseppe Verdi‘s music
from 8 to 14 years old | School Group Bookings from November 11 2025
Director Manu Lalli
Original music and arrangements Simone Piraino
Conductor Daniele Malinverno (27, 29) / Michele De Luca (28, 30)
Assistant Director Chiara Casalbuoni
Scene Designs Daniele Leone
Scene and Costume Making Marco Burberi, Paola Pietri and Ginevra Boni
Lighting Designs Vincenzo Traina
Teatro Massimo Orchestra and Chorus
Chorus Master Salvatore Punturo
A Teatro Massimo New Production
Cast
Aida Mariagiorgia Caccamo (27, 29) / Anna Ryabenkaya (28, 30)
Amneris Sonia Sala (27, 29) / Ambra Abbisogni (28, 30)
Radamès Alfonso Zambuto (27, 29) / Samuele Di Leo (28, 30)
Narrator (Teraki) Giuseppe Randazzo
with the classes of the schools IC Politeama (plesso La Masa) and IC Giotto – Cipolla (plesso Cipolla)
Educational Workshops Assistants Carla Barbato, Anton Giulio Pandolfo
Tickets
Full price: 12 €
Students: 5 €
Free entrance for 1 teacher every 10 students, students with disabilities and their support teachers
Programme
The plot
Aida is not only a monumental opera set in an idealized Egypt, but a universal story that speaks of deep human emotions. The protagonists—Aida, Radamès, and Amneris—are young people overwhelmed by passions and ambitions greater than themselves, victims of an inexorable fate and a cruel and useless war. The opera thus becomes a reflection on love as the only way to give meaning to life.
Gallery
Ph. Franco Lannino
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.
Find out more about our Educational project for school groups.
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