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
con il sostegno dell’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
About
dal 17 al 19 dicembre 2024 | Sala Grande, Teatro Massimo
dai 6 ai 13 anni | Prenotazioni dal 30 settembre 2024
Scrittura scenica e regia Manu Lalli
Assistente alla regia Chiara Casalbuoni
Musiche originali, arrangiamenti e trascrizioni Simone Piraino
Direttore Daniele Malinverno (18) / Michele De Luca (17, 19)
Voce dal mare Maria Cristina Napoli (18) / Natasa Kátai (17, 19)
Narratori Pietro Massaro e Oriana Martucci
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Massimo
Maestro del coro Salvatore Punturo
Con la partecipazione delle classi dell’I.C. Karol Wojtyla di Santa Flavia
Biglietti
Studenti 5 €
Intero 12 €
Ridotto 10 €
Per maggiori informazioni
Programme
La trama
La leggenda di Tristano e Isotta è antichissima, una delle vicende più romantiche del medioevo: narra le avventure di un cavaliere e di una principessa che si innamorano grazie a un magico Elisir. Wagner compose l’opera su ispirazione del testo di Goffredo di Strasburgo e riuscì a portarla in scena nel 1865. È considerata tuttora uno dei capolavori di ogni tempo. La versione che verrà rappresentata, pur mantenendo integre le linee essenziali sia drammaturgiche che musicali, è adattata in modo da esaltare gli aspetti fiabeschi magici e simbolici della vicenda che ha al centro temi importanti legati all’immaginario e all’ideale orizzonte del mondo cavalleresco, come la ricerca dell’amore, il rapporto fra morale pubblica e morale privata, il peccato, la fedeltà.
Gallery
Photo © Franco Lannino
Questo è uno spettacolo per i gruppi scolastici.
Per le recite infrasettimanali le scuole devono prenotare compilando il modulo.
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PER APPROFONDIRE: I VIDEO
Video realizzati da Venti Lucenti
a cura di Diana Gaci Scaletti
PRESENTAZIONE E INTRODUZIONE
ESECUZIONE CORO DEI MARINAI
LEZIONE CORO DEI MARINAI
ESECUZIONE MARCIA NUZIALE
LEZIONE MARCIA NUZIALE
Video realizzati da Venti Lucenti a cura di Diana Gaci Scaletti
About
8 – 21 November, 2025 | Sala ONU, Teatro Massimo
Il 66
Il biglietto vincente
by Jacques Offenbach
from 8 to 15 years old | School Group Bookings open on October 22, 2025
Libretto Auguste Pittaud de Forges and Laurencin
Conductor and orchestrator Alberto Maniaci
Director, translation into Italian and adaptation of dialogues Salvatore Cannova
Rhythmic translation Paolo V. Montanari and Salvatore Cannova
Scene Designs Roberto Tusa
Costume Designs Giusy Di Trapani
Assistant Director Elena Snidero
Lighting Designs Vincenzo Traina
Tickets
Full price: 10 €
Concession: 8 €
Students: 4 €
Free entrance for 1 teacher every 10 students, students with disabilities and their support teachers
Cast & Plot
Cast
Frantz Samuele Di Leo (8, 11, 13, 15, 18, 20) / Alfonso Zambuto (9, 12, 14, 16, 19, 21)
Grittly Fabiola Galati (8, 11, 12, 15, 18, 21) / Federica Foresta (9, 13, 14, 16, 19, 20)
Berthold Giovanni Palminteri (8, 11, 13, 15, 18, 20) / Nicola Ciancio (9, 12, 14, 16, 19, 21)
The plot
Frantz and Grittly are two young street artists from Tyrol on the route to Strasbourg. Why are they traveling? To visit and help Charlotte, Grittly’s sister, who has recently become a widower, after the alleged passing of her husband Bertoldo. Their encounter with a merchant called ‘U Venditor sweeps them up in a whirlwind of misunderstandings, promises, and lies: everything revolves around a lottery ticket, a symbol of easy (and deceptive) fortune. Amid laughter and twists and turns, the show invites us to reflect on how fragile dreams of wealth are and how solid human bonds and the truth of feelings are.
Gallery
Ph. Franco Lannino
Spoken and sung 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.
Sat and Sun performances are open to everyone.
Find out more about our Educational project for school groups.