TAOBUK – Taormina Book Festival

3° edition

Panoramic Terrace of the Taormina historical Archives, piazza IX aprile
This year the event will take place from Saturday 21st to Friday 27th September in the splendid setting of the panoramic terrace of the Taormina historical archives (next tothe town library). The building, a previous church of 15th century, is right in the town centre and boasts a unique, breathtaking panorama, embracing the Ionian Sea, the coast and mount Etna.

More info at http://www.taobuk.it/

The look of the Year Fashion Awards

Taormina Greek Theatre, 8.30pm

Stalls (Parterre): € 16,50
Upper circle (non-numbered seats): € 11,50
Tickets on ctbox.it and boxol.it

The LOOK OF THE YEAR is the most important fashion event all over the world, whose aim is to select and to launch models in the world of modelling. The  Look of the Yaer is also a recognition that will be given every year to the most creative stylists, to the magazines and to the best professionalists of the sector. The aim is to create a direct line among who creates fashion, who promotes it and who wears it by profession. The event is addressed to an increasingly interested public, to a continuous rendezvous with fashion that finds rising number of girls willing to participate at The Look of The Year. The LOOK OF THE YEARs style is in agreement with its location. The international event, located in Taormina / Giardini Naxos, usual destination of the international jet-set, where the most prestigious names of the international fashion take part. The selection is made up of the most known professionalists of the world of look, photographers, stylists and models. It starts with the participation of about 200.000 girls, from 16 years old to 22 years old, minimum height 1,78m, size 40/42, giving to all of them equal opportunity to take part at the event, without discriminating colour, race, religion or ethnic origin. THE LOOK OF THE YEAR is able to involve every year more than 40 countries, making use of numerous Seats all over the world. The organisers, thanks to the media, radio, television and newspapers, promote the event and the research of the models for the international phase. (source: thelookoftheyear.tv)

More info on www.thelookoftheyear.tv

Valentina Lisitsa

Taormina Greek Theatre

August 29th 2013, 9.30pm

Valentina Lisitsa comes back to Taormina for a new concert.

With more than 30 million YouTube channel views, Valentina Lisitsa is one of the most watched classical musicians on the Web, using digital innovation to champion classical music and performance.
Tonight in Taormina, Valentina will perform the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in A minor. op 16 by Grieg and Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43 by Rachmaninov and Warsaw Concert of Addinsell.

Valentina Lisitsa was born in Kiev, Ukraine and began playing the piano at the age of three, performing her first solo recital a year later. She gained a place at the Lysenko Music School for Gifted Children and later studied at the Kiev Conservatory under Ludmilla Tsvierko. In 1991 she won the first prize in The Murray Dranoff Two Piano Competition together with Alexei Kuznetsoff. She now resides in the USA.

Tickets on boxol.it and ticketone.it
Ticket Office in Taormina: +39 0942.628730
Stalls (Parterre) and Gallery: € 22,00
Upper circle (non-numbered seats): € 14,00

Mario Biondi

Sun tour

Taormina Greek Theatre, 9.00pm

 A warm, deep, sensual voice, yet clear and confident.

Mario Biondi  is a singer and composer, born in Catania, Italy on 1971. His father Stefano Biondi was also a singer. Mario’s passion for music began at the early age of twelve when he sang in his church choir. His many musical experiences over time in Italy saw him develop more and more into an artist whose scope was destined to be of an international level.

With a voice that references greats like Barry White, Issac Hayes and Lou Rawls while at the same time giving his own spin to the soul and jazz  genres,  Mario Biondi makes music passionately while at the same time, lighthearted and ironic.
(source: ronniescotts.co.uk)

Stalls (Parterre): € 74,75
Gallery: € 63,25
Upper circle (numbered seats): € 59,80
Upper circle (non-numbered seats): € 40,25
Tickets on ticketone.it and boxol.it

Marco Mengoni

“Essenziale” Tour

Taormina Greek Theatre
August 26 2013, 9.30pm

Tickets on ctbox.it and ticketone.it
Ticket Office in Taormina: +39 0942.628730

Stalls (Parterre): € 51,75
Gallery: € 40,25
Upper circle (numbered seats): € 34,50
Upper circle (non-numbered seats): € 28,75

Marco Mengoni (born 25 December 1988) is an Italian singer-songwriter. He rose to fame in 2009, after winning the third series of Italian talent show X Factor. His debut extended play, Dove si vola, was preceded by the single with the same title, which reached the top spot of the Italian Top Digital Downloads chart and also served as his coronation song. In February 2010, Mengoni competed in the 60th Sanremo Music Festival with the song “Credimi ancora”, placing third in a field of fifteen. Mengoni’s first full-length studio album, Solo 2.0, was released in September 2010, and it was certified gold by the Federation of the Italian Music Industry. In 2013, Mengoni won the 63rd Sanremo Music Festival with his song “L’essenziale”. During the competition he was internally selected by RAI to represent Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö, where he will perform “L’essenziale”. During his career, Mengoni has received several awards, including two TRL Awards and five Wind Music Awards. In 2010 he also became the first Italian artist to win the MTV Europe Music Award for Best European Act.

 Blue

Taormina Greek Theatre, 9,30pm

Stalls (Parterre): € 35,00
Upper circle (non-numbered seats): € 29,00
Tickets on boxol.it and ticketone.it

Giovanni Allevi
Sunrise Tour

Taormina Greek Theatre

August 24th 2013, 9.30pm

 Giovanni Allevi is a young Italian pianist and composer.
… a pianist without a label… the most difficult to classify the genre of. The easiest thing is just to remain enthralled by his fiery style, with its torrential and refined connotations on the road to final maturation. Giovanni Allevi is a musician full of inventiveness and daring, with a bright future at the keyboard to be explored: above all, on the stage, in concert, he reveals the painstaking application of his sonic research and the pursuit of technical perfection and depth. (Enzo Gentile)

Tickets on boxol.it
Ticket Office in Taormina: +39 0942.628730
Stalls (Parterre) and Gallery: € 35,00
Upper circle (non-numbered seats): € 24,00

Pooh and the Ensemble Symphony Orchestra

Greek Theatre, 9,45pm

 
First announced date of the “Opera Seconda in Tour – Estate” by the Italian pop band “The Pooh”.
This time the tree musicians will play their great successes accompanied by the Ensemble Symphony Orchestra directed by Maestro Giacomo Loprieno.
Roby, Dodi and Red with Danilo Ballo (keyboard) and Phil Mer (drums).

Stalls (Parterre): € 75,00
Gallery: € 62,00
Upper circle (numbered seats): € 48,00
Upper circle (non-numbered seats): € 35,00
Tickets on ctbox.it, boxol.it and ticketone.it

Mario Galeani

Taormina Greek Theatre

August 21 2013, 9.30pm

Born in Messina,Mario Galeani is considered among the most important and active italian pianist of his generation. From very young age he dedicates himself to the concertism, giving tourneé which brought him to perform as soloist in all Europe, in North and Central America, in Middle and Far East and in North Africa for some of the most prestigious world musical centres.

More info on mariogaleani.it

Tickets on boxol.it
Ticket Office in Taormina: +39 0942.628730
Stalls (Parterre) and Gallery: € 22,00
Upper circle (non-numbered seats): € 14,00

Lola Astanova

Taormina Greek Theatre

August 16th 2013, 9.30pm Some absolutely love her. Others criticize nearly everything she does. But one thing is certain: Lola Astanova is a phenomenon. A virtuoso often described as “firebrand” and nicknamed “the million-dollar pianist”, Lola is hardly your stereotypical classical musician. Add to that her interest in fashion, film and pop (yes, pop!) music, and it becomes obvious that no one traditional definition is sufficient and accurate enough to describe this unique artist.
(source: lolaastanova.com)

Lola Astanova will play Ouverture to Candide and Symphonyc dances west side story by Leonard Bernstein, Alborada del Graciosa by Maurice Ravel  and Rapsodia in Blu by George Gershwin.

Tickets on boxol.it and ticketone.it
Ticket Office in Taormina: +39 0942.628730
Stalls (Parterre) and Gallery: € 22,00
Upper circle (non-numbered seats): € 14,00