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Aug. 30 – Andrea Bocelli

Andrea Bocelli

Ancient Theatre, Friday August 30th 2019 @ 9.30pm

 

The world’s most beloved tenor comes back to Taormina.

A great return to our city for the most loved Italian singer in the world.  A concert that promises to be special as the wonderful voice of Andrea Bocelli that will enchant the audience of taormina on August 30th

 

 

TICKETS on ticketone.it
Stalls (Parterre): not available
Gallery: € 265,00
Upper circle (gold numbered seats): € 185,00
Upper circle (numbered seats): € 145,00
Upper circle (non-numbered seats): € 80,00

Where to stay

Hotel Villa Carlotta  Hotel Villa Ducale  Hotel Villa Schuler  Hotel La Pensione Svizzera

recommended by Taormina.it

Bocelli has recorded 15 solo studio albums of both pop and classical music, three greatest hits albums, and nine complete operas, selling over 90 million records worldwide. He has had success as a crossover performer, bringing classical music to the top of international pop charts.

In 1998, Bocelli was named one of People magazine’s 50 Most Beautiful People. In 1999, he was nominated for Best New Artist at the Grammy Awards. “The Prayer” is his duet with Celine Dion for the animated film Quest for Camelot which won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song.[3] He captured a listing in the Guinness Book of World Records with the release of his classical album Sacred Arias, as he simultaneously held the top three positions on the US Classical Albums charts.[3]

Bocelli was made a Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 2006 and was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on 2 March 2010 for his contribution to Live Theater.

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Sep. 8th – Brit Floyd World Tour – Live in Taormina –

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Eclipse World Tour 2018 – ’45 Years of The Dark Side of the Moon’

Ancient Theatre, September 8th 2018 @ 9.30pm
Brit Floyd, the world’s greatest Pink Floyd tribute show returns to the stage in 2018 for a very special ’45th Anniversary’ retrospective of Pink Floyd’s iconic 1973 album, The Dark Side of the Moon. The Brit Floyd show has truly become a phenomenon, widely regarded as the world’s greatest live tribute to Pink Floyd. Faithfully recreating the scale and pomp of the final 1994 Division Bell tour, complete with a stunning million dollar light show, large circle screen and arch plus moving lights, lasers, inflatables and theatrics. A Brit Floyd show really is as close as fans will get to experiencing the magnificence of a Pink Floyd show live.

TICKETS on boxol.it
Stalls (Parterre): € 60,00
Gallery: € 50,00
Upper circle (numbered seats): € 45,00
Upper circle (non-numbered seats): € 35,00

THE BAND

Brit Floyd is a Pink Floyd tribute band formed in 2011 in Liverpool, United Kingdom. Their live shows attempt to emulate and recreate the sound and soundscape of Pink Floyd’s live shows. Damian Darlington formed the band after playing with The Australian Pink Floyd Show for 17 years. Brit Floyd originated on the initiative of musical director, guitarist, and singer Damian Darlington “simply because he felt he could do it one better” than his previous band, The Australian Pink Floyd Show, and stating that “there is much more attention to details in every aspect of the show, from the music to the visuals to the lighting: everything is that much more perfected and there’s a passion coming off that stage… It’s a coherent, emotional journey through Pink Floyd’s catalog.”

Darlington began following Pink Floyd’s work after hearing The Wall at the age of 13 and he saw the band live for the first time in 1987 during the A Momentary Lapse of Reason Tour. “Since then, he has seen the band in different incarnations, after its split, and including its 2005 reunion.

Band members
Various musicians have played in Brit Floyd since its inception in 2011. The present band members are listed here:

Damian Darlington – Musical Director, guitar, lap steel, vocals (2011–present)
Gareth Darlington – Sound Designer and Front of House Engineer (2011–present)
Bryan Kolupski – Media Director – Animation and Video (2011–present)
Rob Stringer – keyboards, vocals (2011–present)
Ian Cattell – bass guitar, vocals (2011–present)
Arran Ahmun – drums (2011–present)
Ola Bienkowska – backing vocals (2011–present)
Emily Jollands – backing vocals (2011–present)
Jacquie Williams – backing vocals (2011–present)
Angela Cervantes – backing vocals (2013-present)
Thomas Ashbrook – keyboards, vocals (2013-present)
Roberta Freeman – backing vocals (2014-present)
Karl Penny – drums (2014-present)
Jay Davidson – saxophones, guitars, percussions, keyboard (2015-present)
Edo Scordo – guitars, vocals (2015-present)
Jenn Kee – backing vocals (2016-present)
Ryan Saranich – saxophones, guitars, percussions, keyboard (2016-present)

(source: wikipedia)

www.britfloyd.com

Where to stay

Hotel Villa Carlotta Hotel Villa Ducale Hotel Villa Schuler Hotel La Pensione Svizzera

recommended by Taormina.it
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Aug. 19 – Negrita

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Negrita

Desert Yacht Club Summer Tour

Ancient Theatre, Sunday 19th August 2018 @ 9.30pm

Negrita is an Italian rock band from Arezzo, Tuscany. Formed in 1991, the band was named after the song “Hey Negrita”, included in The Rolling Stones’ album Black and Blue, released in 1976. The band currently consists of Paolo Bruni (also known as “Pau”), Enrico Salvi (known as “Drigo”) and Cesare “Mac” Petricich.
Their musical style is mainly considered Hip hop, Pop, Italian Pop, Italian Arena Pop and italian hip hop.
The band has received three nominations at the MTV Europe Music Awards for Best Italian Act in 1999, 2003 and 2005. In January 2012, their album Reset was ranked 77th in the list of the 100 Best Italian Albums of All Time compiled by the Italian version of the music magazine Rolling Stone.

TICKETS on ticketone.it
Stalls (Parterre): € 46,00
Gallery (central): € 46,00
Gallery (lateral): € 41,40
Upper circle (numbered seats): € 36,80
Upper circle (non-numbered seats): € 32,20

 

Negrita on Youtube – “Rotolando verso Sud”

www.negrita.com

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Aug. 16 and 21 – Tosca

TOSCA

by Giacomo Puccini

Thursday August 16th 2018, Ancient Theatre @ 9.00pm

Tuesday August 21st 2018, Ancient Theatre @ 9.00pm

Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. The work, based on Victorien Sardou’s 1887 French-language dramatic play, La Tosca, is a melodramatic piece set in Rome in June 1800, with the Kingdom of Naples’s control of Rome threatened by Napoleon’s invasion of Italy. It contains depictions of torture, murder and suicide, as well as some of Puccini’s best-known lyrical arias, and has inspired memorable performances from many of opera’s leading singers. The dramatic force of Tosca and its characters continues to fascinate both performers and audiences, and the work remains one of the most frequently performed operas.

The performance is a production of  Taormina Opera Stars

Director: Bruno Torrisi
Orchestra: Taormina Opera Stars
Orchestra Conductor: Gianna Fratta
Chorus: Taormina Opera Stars
Chorus Conductor: Gaetano Costa
Corps de ballet: Danza Taormina
Stage Manager: Daniele Barbera

 

TICKETS

Thursday August 16th 2018 >>  tickets on boxol.it and ticketone.it

Tuesday August 21st 2018 >> tickets on boxol.it and ticketone.it

Stalls (Parterre): € 105,00
Gallery: € 85,00
Upper circle (numbered seats): € 60,00
Upper circle (non-numbered seats): € 33,00

 

SYNOPSIS

In the church of S Andrea della Valle, the fugitive Angelotti takes refuge in a private chapel. The painter Cavaradossi returns to the canvas he is painting, a picture of Mary Magdalene, influenced by the features of his beloved Tosca and by a woman he has often seen in the church. The sacristan complains of the trouble Cavaradossi gives him. As he leaves, Angelotti emerges from hiding, explaining that he has escaped from imprisonment in the Castel Sant’Angelo. The voice of Tosca is heard and Angelotti hides again. Tosca is jealous of what she thinks may have been an assignation with another woman but agrees to meet her lover after her evening performance. The church fills for a celebration of a supposed victory over Napoleon and Baron Scarpia and his agents seek for signs of Angelotti, suspicion falling on Cavaradossi as a possible accomplice. Scarpia succeeds now in arousing further jealousy in Tosca, who has returned, showing her a fan found in the chapel, belonging, in fact, to Angelotti’s sister. Scarpia orders his men to follow Tosca, when she leaves, as a victory Te Deum is sung. In Scarpia’s apartment the sound is heard of an entertainment being given below for Queen Caroline, dancing and a performance by Tosca. Cavaradossi has been arrested and is interrogated and, when Tosca comes in, tortured in the next room, to elicit information from her. She betrays Angelotti’s hiding-place at the well in the garden of Cavaradossi’s villa. The painter is to be shot at dawn, but can be saved if Tosca will give in to Scarpia’s demands on her. She pretends to agree and when he has signed a safe-conduct she kills him. In the third act, at Castel Sant’Angelo, Cavaradossi prepares for death, as dawn draws near. Tosca is brought in and, left alone with him, explains how there is to be a mock-execution, after which they can escape together. In the event Scarpia has his revenge. His orders did not countermand the execution and Cavaradossi is shot. When Tosca realises that he is dead, she leaps from the battlements to her own death, while Scarpia’s men draw threateningly near, having discovered their master’s body.

Tosca remains a major work in operatic repertoire, although subject to relentlessly hostile criticism on the grounds of the brutal coarseness of its plot. It is, in fact, dramatically convincing, up to the moment of final irony. Cavaradossi is entrusted with his first moving aria in the opening act, Recondita armonia (Secret harmony), when he contrasts the dark-haired beauty of Tosca with the fair- haired stranger he has seen in the church, both combined in his painting. Cavaradossi’s other great aria comes in the third act, as he prepares for death. In E lucevan le stelle (And the stars shone) he regrets his coming execution and parting from Tosca. The rôle of Tosca has a strong dramatic appeal. Her best known aria is Vissi d’arte (I have lived for art), as she despairs at the predicament that Scarpia has posed for her.

(source: www.naxos.com)

 

http://taorminaoperastars.it/eventi/tosca/

 

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Jul. 27 – Teresa Valéry

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Teresa Valéry

by Teresa Mannino

Teresa Mannino (born 1970) is an Italian comedian, actress and TV presenter. Born in Palermo, Mannino graduated in philosophy and then she moved to Milan, where she enrolled in the Teatro Carcano European Drama School. After several other courses and workshops, she became a stand-up comedian and began appearing in the Canale 5 variety show Zelig. Mannino is active on stage, in films and in many TV commercials.

Teresa Valéry is a passionate and funny read of one of the most famous Italian opera: La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi, in which the female character is Violetta Valéry.
“We Italians invented the Opera but its comprehension and fruition is difficult, especially for young people” Mannino said.
Teresa Valéry is a theatre play meant for everybody, a perfect first approach to opera.

Design and Direction: Alberto Cavallotti
Arranger and Conductor: Alberto Maniaci
with opera singers and the Orchestra of the Teatro Massimo of Palermo
Music: Giuseppe Verdi
Orchestra of the Teatro Massimo of Palermo
Main actors: Teresa Mannino, Luca Canonici, Maria Francesca Mazzara e Francesco Vultaggio.

TICKETS on boxol.it and ticketone.it
Stalls (Parterre): € 53,00
Gallery: € 44,00
Upper circle (numbered seats): € 36,00
Upper circle (non-numbered seats): € 27,50


Italian description of the event

Il grande amore di Violetta e Alfredo, raccontato da Teresa Mannino, in una rilettura inedita di un grande classico della tradizione lirica italiana.
Sul palco, insieme a lei, l’orchestra di cinquanta elementi del Teatro Massimo di Palermo, diretta dal Maestro Alberto Maniaci con i tre cantanti, Francesca Mazzara, Luca Canonici e Francesco Vultaggio, che interpretano i passi più famosi delle canzoni de la Traviata, interpuntando e arricchendo il racconto e il commento.
Un esperimento, con la regia di Alberto Cavallotti, che nasce da un grande amore per la lirica: “Noi italiani abbiamo inventato l’opera, ma la sua fruizione immediata è difficile, soprattutto per i ragazzi – afferma Teresa Mannino – Basta però vincere la pigrizia, saperne un poco di più per appassionarsi. La Traviata è tra le opere più eseguite in tutto il mondo e rappresenta l’Italia nei suoi aspetti più classici: il bel canto e la passione. Ma la vera protagonista dell’opera è la critica alla morale borghese e al perbenismo. Questo rende quest’opera, anticonformista per l’epoca e tuttora attualissima, potentissima”.
Nel racconto uno spazio dedicato anche alla figura di Giuseppe Verdi, troppo spesso accomunato, secondo Teresa Mannino, all’immagine del “vecchietto con la barba stampato sulla banconota da 1000 Lire. Giuseppe Verdi fu un giovane passionale e trasgressivo, un uomo che amava andare controcorrente, molto amato anche dai suoi contemporanei”.
(source: www.teresamannino.com/teatro.html)

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Jun. 19 – Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds

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Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds

Stranded on the Earth World Tour

Noel Gallagher, Ancient Theatre, June 19th 2018 @ 9.45pm

Noel Thomas David Gallagher (born 29 May 1967) is an English singer, songwriter and guitarist. He served as the lead guitarist, co-lead vocalist and principal songwriter of the English rock band Oasis which he left in 2009.

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds are an English rock band formed in 2010 as the solo moniker of former Oasis lead guitarist and songwriter Noel Gallagher. The touring band consists of former Oasis guitarist Gem Archer, former Oasis session pianist Mike Rowe, former Oasis drummer Chris Sharrock, and The Zutons bassist Russell Pritchard.
The band has also had a variety of guests contribute to their albums such as the Crouch End Festival Chorus, Amorphous Androgynous and Johnny Marr.

Since his departure from Oasis in August 2009, many speculated that Noel Gallagher might record a solo album. In July 2011, he held a press conference to confirm that this was the case, after denying rumours from his brother Liam Gallagher that he had already heard the tracks featured on it. Later that year, Noel Gallagher released the project’s self-titled debut album. Several singles from the album were released, including “The Death of You and Me”, “If I Had a Gun…”, “AKA… What a Life!”, “Dream On” and “Everybody’s on the Run”. In 2015, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds released their second album, Chasing Yesterday. Their third, Who Built the Moon?, followed in November 2017.
(source: Wikipedia – Noel Gallagher)

TICKETS on ticketone.it
Stalls (Parterre): € 135,00
Gallery (central): € 135,00
Gallery (lateral): € 100,00
Upper circle (numbered seats): € 85,00
Upper circle (non-numbered seats): € 55,00

Where to stay

Hotel Villa Carlotta Hotel Villa Ducale Hotel Villa Schuler Hotel La Pensione Svizzera

recommended by Taormina.it

Since the opening of the first hotel in 1874, Taormina has become one of the world top tourist destinations where visitors can experience a perfect combination of old times charming atmosphere, preservation of history and culture, an elegant and lively way of life to be enjoyed in relaxing walks through the old town pedestrian areas. The tourist has a lot to do and see: top level art performances at the Greek theatre, several painting exhibitions held in local palazzi and churches, fine elegant shopping along the famous “Corso Umberto” with its classical music cafès and pastry shops. Or visiting local art museums, taking naturalistic walks in the surrounding countryside, golfing at the nearby 18-holes green, enjoying the fantastic beaches at easy reach, where the mild Mediterranean climate allows to practise all water sports as swimming, scuba diving, sailing, windsurfing, or just sunbathing for nearly eight months a year and even more. Welcome to Taormina, the ultimate holiday paradise!

 
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Apr. 30 – Food and Jazz Day Taormina

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International Jazz Day

Taormina town centre on Monday 30th April 2018. from 10.00am on

A perfect combination of food and music.

Jazz bands will perform in the main squares of Town and many restaurants and café will create special dish and cocktails inspired by giants of Jazz like Diana Krall, Nick la Rocca, Louis Armstrong and some Italian great jazz players like Francesco Cafiso and Dino Rubino.

On Monday 30th April, come and have a walk and something to eat in Town. Enjoy the music that will spread in the air: from 11.o0am to 10,30pm many jazz groups will play simultaneously in the squares and streets of town.

Here are the jazz bands that will play: Rino Cirinnà 4et, Giuseppe Asero 4et, Jank, 3 Brothers Gang, Jank, Sea Connection Trio, Alibrandi & Toscano duo, Size 46 street band, Emanuele Privitera 4et, Orazio Maugeri 4et, Adrien Marco 4et.

 

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ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL JAZZ DAY – #jazzday

In November 2011, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) officially designated April 30 as International Jazz Day in order to highlight jazz and its diplomatic role of uniting people in all corners of the globe.
International Jazz Day brings together communities, schools, artists, historians, academics, and jazz enthusiasts all over the world to celebrate and learn about jazz and its roots, future and impact; raise awareness of the need for intercultural dialogue and mutual understanding; and reinforce international cooperation and communication. Each year on April 30, this international art form is recognized for promoting peace, dialogue among cultures, diversity, and respect for human rights and human dignity; eradicating discrimination; promoting freedom of expression; fostering gender equality; and reinforcing the role of youth in enacting social change.
(source: https://jazzday.com)

As soon as you arrive , you will feel the magical, mythical atmosphere spread all around which has enchanted visitors from all over the world for years and years.

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