Carmen Giannattasio & Markus Werba Lead Teatro Massimo’s 2021 Season Opening

(Credits: Cory Weaver / Francesco Luciani) Teatro Massimo di Palermo will be live streaming the opening of its 2021 season with the performance of the complex, site-specific opera “Il Crepuscolo dei Sogni.” The opera includes music from Claudio Monteverdi, Henry Purcell, Joseph Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven, Gioachino Rossini, Franz Schubert, Richard Wagner, Giuseppe Verdi, Modest Mussorgsky, Arrigo Boito, Richard Strauss, {…}

Jan 22, 2021

Vasilisa Berzhanskaya, Giulio Pelligra & Alexandros Stavrakakis Lead Teatro Massimo di Palermo Online Concert

(Credits: Salzburger Festspiele official website / Allegorica Opera Management official website / Askonas Holt official website) The Teatro Massimo di Palermo will livestream its concert on Jan. 31, 2021. Mezzosoprano Vasilisa Berzhanskaya, tenor Giulio Pelligra and bass Alexandros Stavrakakis will perform a program that includes Sergej Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 1 in D major op. 25, and Igor Stravinsky’s “Pulcinella.” Gabriele {…}

Jan 2, 2021

Roberto Alagna Awarded The Title Of Officer Of Légion d’Honneur

(Credit: Gregor Hohenberg/Sony Music) France has announced the traditional New Year’s list of honors. La Grande Chancellerie de la Légion d’honneur has published the full list of recipients. Among those awarded is the celebrated tenor Roberto Alagna, thus becoming the Officer of Légion d’honneur . The famed tenor recently debuted the title role of Wagner’s “Lohengrin” at the Staatsoper Berlin. {…}

Dec 30, 2020

Carmen Giannattasio & Markus Werba Lead Teatro Massimo’s New Year’s Eve Concert

(Credit: Jean Philippe Raibaud) The Teatro Massimo di Palermo is set to present a New Year’s Eve concert featuring Carmen Giannattasio and Markus Werba. The concert is set to be streamed on the Italian company’s Teatro Massimo WebTV and will feature music by Haydn, Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, Spontini, Lehar, Le Gaz Spoliansky, and De Curtis. Omer Meir Wellber will conduct {…}

Oct 27, 2020

Riccardo Muti to Conduct Verdi’s Requiem in Palermo in December

The Teatro Massimo di Palermo is set to present Verdi’s Requiem with Riccardo Muti conducting. The legendary conductor will lead a cast that includes Joyce El-Khoury, Martina Belli, Saimir Pirgu, and Riccardo Zanellato. The concert will be presented on Dec. 4 and 5, shortly after lockdown measures in Italy expire on Nov. 24. Muti is set is also set to {…}

Oct 18, 2020

Anna Caterina Antonacci Recital at Teatro Massimo di Palermo Redesigned Due To COVID-19

(Credit: Jason Daniel Shaw) The Teatro Massimo di Palermo has announced that the recital of Italian soprano Anna Caterina Antonacci scheduled for Nov. 15, 2020 has been redesigned due to the ongoing concerns over COVID-19. The new program will include Tosti’s “Quattro canzoni d’Amaranta,” Ottorino Respighi’s “Liriche,” “Venezia” by Reynaldo Hahn, and Francis Poulenc’s “La voix humaine.” Donald Sulzen will {…}

Oct 13, 2020

Iréne Theorin, Elisabet Strid & Violeta Urmana Lead Redesigned ‘Elektra’ At Teatro Massimo di Palermo

(Credits: Chris Gloag /Emelie Kroon/ Violeta Urmana Facebook page) Teatro Massimo di Palermo has announced that it has canceled the fully staged production of Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannstahl’s opera “Elektra,” which was originally scheduled for performance between Nov. 24 – Dec. 2, 2020, due to COVID-19 safety rules. Instead, the opera house will present a semistaged version of {…}

Aug 10, 2020

Artist of the Week: Roberto Alagna & Aleksandra Kurzak

(Credit: Teatro Massimo di Palermo) Opera in Europe continues to flourish with performances around Italy bringing mass audiences and acclaimed singers in some of their signature roles. This week the Teatro Massimo di Palmero opened its “Cavalleria Rusticana” with Aleksandra Kurzak making her role debut as Santuzza and Roberto Alagna in his signature Turiddu. It is a big week for {…}

Jul 9, 2020

Anna Netrebko & Yusif Eyvazov to Perform in Teatro Massimo’s Summer Festival

(Credit: Julian Hargreaves) The Teatro Massimo di Palermo has announced that Anna Netrebko and Yusif Eyvazov will perform in the company’s “Sotto una Nuova Luce” summer festival. The two superstars will perform on August 12, 2020 and will showcase works by Verdi, Cilea, Dvořák, Giordano, and Bizet. Michelangelo Mazza will conduct the performance, which is scheduled to be held at {…}

Jun 26, 2020

Teatro Massimo di Palermo Announces New Revised September Schedule

The Teatro Massimo di Palermo in Italy has announced a revised September program. It all begins with Omer Meir Wellber conducting Schönberg’s “A Survivor from Warsaw” and Mozart’s Coronation Mass in C major. Performance Date: Sept. 13, 2020 The second concert of the September season will be Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons” arranged by Astor Piazzola with Omer Meir Wellber conducting {…}

Jun 25, 2020

Carmen Giannattasio, Roberto Alagna & Aleksandra Kurzak Highlight Teatro Massimo’s ‘Sotto Una Nuova Luce’

The Teatro Massimo di Palermo has announced a summer season entitled “Sotto Una Nuova luce.” The concerts will take place at the Teatro di Verdura and will be streamed via the company Massimo TV. For this article, we will only focus on vocal performances. Omer Meir Wellber opens the festival with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Desirée Rancatore, Chiara Amarù, {…}