![]() ![]() Ido Arad will lead the orchestra.įrom January 17 to 24, the immortal love story of Violetta and Alfredo returns for La traviata, which Teatro Massimo will also tour to Japan in June alongside La bohème. The stage choreography is by Jean-Sébastien Colau, recently appointed Director of the Ballet Company, and Vincenzo Veneruso. The Corps de Ballet will perform the magic of Christmas Eve, the battle with the Mouse King and the young protagonist’s fantastic journey to the land of the Sugar Plume Fairy, accompanied by Prince Nutcracker. The Christmas season, which runs from December 16 to 23, sees the return of one of the most beloved ballets, with eight performances of Pyotr Il’ič Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker produced by Teatro Massimo. Art awakens the mind, which is why, in addition to the concerts and works by great artists and Sicilian artists that we will be have the pleasure to host at Teatro Massimo, we are working on a parallel season of social theatre, for the city, in the city”. To paraphrase the symphony’s title, I could say that this season tells Épisodes de la vie d’un théâtre. “I like to imagine that a theatrical season is not just an assortment of titles and concerts –adds the Chief Executive and Art Director Marco Betta – but a kind of a possible diary recording our present time, a diary-like-symphony such as Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique. Finally, I would like to congratulate with Chief Executive Marco Betta for the 2022-2023 Teatro Massimo season in the thirtieth anniversary of the Mafia attacks: the theatre offerings combine tradition, experimentation and memory, featuring distinguished names along with young artists”. Funding promises for 2022 will be kept so to guarantee job continuity to the people working in the theatre. The duty of the city government is to ensure support and sustainability to its cultural institutions. The city needs a boost of beauty, which can come from culture and art. Beauty acts on people’s behaviours, which, in turn, affect community decisions. I believe that Palermo needs to get back on track starting from culture and the beauty that is intrinsic to it. In the words of Roberto Lagalla, Mayor of Palermo and President of the Fondazione’s Board of Counselors, “The Fondazione Teatro Massimo represents an outstanding cultural landmark that, together with other cultural institutions, aims to build up a network of exchanges and stimuli beneficial to the city’s future. The cast includes soprano Desirée Rancatore, mezzo-soprano Raffaella Lupinacci, tenor Giulio Pelligra, and bass singer Roberto Scandiuzzi. On November 12, the Requiem will be conducted by Alessandro Cadario and broadcast live on a large screen in the Church of San Domenico, the pantheon of illustrious Sicilians, which also houses Giovanni Falcone’s tomb. ![]() Written in 1993 by seven composers – Lorenzo Ferrero, Carlo Galante, Paolo Arcà, Matteo D’Amico, Giovanni Sollima, Marco Betta and Marco Tutino – and inspired by a text by Vincenzo Consolo, the Requiem was first performed on 27 March 1993 in Palermo Cathedral by the Teatro Massimo Chorus with the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, under the baton of Gabriele Ferro. On November 12, thirty years after its first performance in Palermo Cathedral, the Teatro Massimo presents Requiem for the Victims of the Mafia, in collaboration with Associazione Nazionale Magistrati. ![]() These two works, created a century and a half apart from one another, are joined together thanks to Wellber’s conduction and Gandini’s direction, a creative partnership that in September 2020 had already staged Mozart’s Coronation Mass alongside Schönberg’s A survivor from Warsaw. This work combines Der Kaiser von Atlantis, composed by Viktor Ullman in the concentration camp of Theresienstadt – where he was interned from 1942 to 1944 before dying in the gas chambers at Auschwitz – with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Requiem Mass, the composer’s unfinished masterpiece. ![]() The season opens on Novemwith Kaiserrequiem, a new creation by Teatro Massimo Music Director Omer Meir Wellber and director Marco Gandini, which involves the Orchestra, the Chorus and the Corps de Ballet. Roberto Lagalla, President of Fondazione Teatro Massimo and Mayor of Palermo, and Marco Betta, Teatro Massimo Chief Executive and Art Director, have presented in the theatre foyer the 2022-2023 opera, ballet and concert season, which shall open with two opera-concerts strongly characterized by the themes of requiem and memory, marking a continuity with the 2022 season where the victims of Mafia attacks were commemorated. ![]()
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