FABIO BIONDI DIRIGE L'ORCHESTRA DEL TEATRO MASSIMO DI PALERMO Era l’estate del 1788 when Mozart, in his last creative season, he composed a group of three symphonies with surprising speed and mastery: Symphony No. 39 in E flat major K543, Symphony No. 40 in Sol minore K 550, and Symphony No. 41 in Do maggiore K. 551, known as the "Jupiter". Compositions that express all the mastery of a mature personality, just 32 years. The Teatro Massimo presents the three symphonies on Sunday 3 November at 20:30 for the last one
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#Autumn Readings by Vittorio De Agrò – n. 2
#IlGiardinierediWimbledon in Jane Crilly (published on 2 July 2024 from Feltrinelli, pages 224. Price 16,15 euro) Synopsis: For fifty years, Henry Evans was the world's most famous lawn gardener, national heritage of Great Britain: Wimbledon. For fifty years, he personally took care of the camp day and night, in every season, wetting it and cutting it to perfection. When he decides to retire, the young journalist Cara Gibson is sent to interview him. They meet in Henry's red brick house, not far from the legendary All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, in front of
#Autumn Readings by Vittorio De Agrò – n. 1
#DifesaAzona is a novel written by Petros Markaris (republished on 16 January 2024 from “The Ship of Theseus”, once 474. First edition Bompiani in May 2002) Synopsis: Commissioner Kostas Charitos is not used to holidays and rest, especially if to save money he is forced to spend them at his sister-in-law's house on the island of Patmos. Making his mood worse, there is also the earthquake and the consequent discovery of a mysterious corpse unearthed by a landslide caused by the earthquake. On the bright side, he now has a good excuse to get back into the
#Augustian Readings by Vittorio De Agrò: Snow at the bottom of the sea by Matteo Bussola
“The snow at the bottom of the sea” is a novel by Matteo Bussola and published by Einaudi Editore 25 June 2024, pp. 192, € 17,00. Synopsis: A father and a son, inside a room. Facing each other, as they ever were. Each a mirror of the other. The two of them, together, in a child neuropsychiatry department. There are other parents, in that department, other children. Adolescents who refuse food or who harm themselves, who experience the exhausting struggle of growing up, within families unable to give a name to their torment.
#4Canti inaugurates the Summer Season of the Teatro Massimo in Palermo
With “4 Songs for Santa Rosalia”, oratorio in four parts for soprano, mezzo soprano, narrator and orchestra, and the dramaturgy and lyrics by Fabrizio Lupo, the Teatro Massimo in Palermo opens on Thursday 27 June at 21:00 the show season, summer concerts and ballets. The show, with new music for the first time by composers Corinne Latteur, Giulia Tagliavia, Valentina Casesa and Maria Mannone, wants to contribute to renewing the rite that has celebrated devotion to the patron saint of Palermo for four hundred years and to giving new life to ancient texts
#LadyBeGood! At the Teatro Massimo in Palermo
Il musical #LadyBeGood! firmato da George e Ira Gershwin arriva per la prima volta a Palermo nell’allestimento del Teatro della Zarzuela di Madrid A cento anni dal primo clamoroso successo a Broadway, since mid-June it has been on stage at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Lady, Be Good!, the musical in two acts by George Gershwin who composed the music working for the first time together with his brother Ira, author of the song lyrics, with a libretto by Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson. The show arrives at the Teatro Massimo after filming
#Portraits in the Foyer of #TeatroMassimo: #LaCantoria directed by #GiuseppeRicotta
More women protagonists in the Foyer of the #TeatroMassimo with #Portraits, il concerto della #LaCantoria del Teatro diretta da #GiuseppeRicotta Il concerto vede impegnate le voci soliste di Gabriele Majorana, Fabiola Galati, Alessandra Urrata, Arianna France, Sara Barraco, Giorgia Marramaldo, Alessia Zizzo, Helen Corallo and Chiara Perez. Sergio Calì on drums, Dario Ammirata on bass. The songs performed range from Bring me little water Silvy, work song written by Lead Belly (one of the most important exponents of blues music), to the famous Aria on the fourth string by Johann Sebastian Bach; and Hallelujah, on Leonard Cohen
#MUSA Award 2023 of Film Criticism
The #MUSA Award 2023 of Film Critics awarded to Santi Pulvirenti and Calibro 35 per le colonne sonore di L’ultima notte di Amore e Blanca Santi Pulvirenti e i Calibro 35 they won the #MUSA Film Critics Award 2023 for the best original music respectively for the film L'ultima notte di Amore and the TV series Blanca. Two soundtracks that best represent the artistic value of the Italian composition scene through the perfect combination, aesthetic and narrative, of music and images. Directed and created by Marco Testoni (Soundtrack City) e
Christmas concerts with #Let'sSingChristmas
The Teatro Massimo in Palermo, l’Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana e il Teatro Massimo Bellini di Catania celebrano insieme il Natale con #Let’sSingChristmas L’iniziativa della Regione Siciliana, Department of Tourism, opens the doors to three of the main musical institutions on the island which for the first time are networking and offering a series of free entry concerts scheduled in Palermo and Catania from 26 al 31 December. Concerts designed to involve and host a large audience of music lovers, young people and families, but also tourists, which they will have the opportunity to admire
Homage to #MariaCallas at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo
The Teatro Massimo in Palermo pays homage to the soprano with the legendary voice #MariaCallas , the centenary of his birth, with a concert directed by maestro Alessandro Cadario, canta il soprano Myrtò Papatanasiu Un mito che ancora emoziona e commuove sia per le doti vocali strabilianti che per le vicende di una vita intensa e travagliata conclusa ad appena 54 years. “A complete theatrical phenomenon: musical and dramatic” – as Luchino Visconti said of her, who directed her in many great titles: “The sleepwalker”, "The Traviata", "Anna Boleyn". On the centenary of his birth, Maria Callas, name