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PERMANENT MUSEUMS

Taormina Castle

Opening hours: everyday 9.00am – 7.00pm
https://castellidisicilia.it/i-castelli/castelli-di-taormina/#page-content

 

 

JANUARY 2025

January  1 – New Year’s Concert by Taormina Plectrum Orchestra – Congress Hall @ 6.00pm

January  1 – Toast with the Mayor – Piazza IX Aprile @ 8.300pm

January 4 – From Morricone To Battiato – Ancient Theatre

January 4 – Event for children – The Chocolate Factory, treasure hunt and games – Congress Hall @ 4.00pm

January 4 – The Swan Lake, the ballet – Congress Hall @ 9.00pm

January 9 – Antonella Ruggiero in “Una Voce una Fisarmonica” – Congress Hall @ 8.45pm

January 11 – La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi – Congress Hall @ 8.45pm

January 18 – Uccio De Santis Show – Congress Hall @ 8.45pm

January 25 – Cavalleria Rusticana by Pietro Mascagni – Congress Hall @ 8.45pm

January 31 – Emanuela Aureli – Congress Hall @ 8.45pm

 

February

February 14 – Saint Valentine in Taormina

February 14 – Saint Valentine in Taormina

February 14 – Valentine Jazz Night 

February 15 – Saint Valentine in Taormina

February 16 – Saint Valentine in Taormina

February 22 – Uccio De Santis in “Non So Che Fare Prima” – Congress Hall

February 28 – Taormina Sound Festival > Nessun Dorma

 

March 

March 8 – Taormina Sound Festival > La Musica è donna – Congress Hall

March 15 – Pagliacci – Congress Hall

March 22 – Manlio Dovì Show – Congress Hall

March 29 – The three tenors in concert – Congress Hall

 

June

June 10-14 – Taormina Film Fest

June 20 – Giovanni Allevi – Ancient Theatre

 

July

July 4 – Dream Theater – 40th Anniversary – Ancient Theatre

July 5 – Giovanni Allevi – Ancient Theatre

July 12 – Alessandra Amoroso – Greek Theatre

July 25 – Kraftwerk – Ancient Theatre

July 26 – Simple Minds – Ancient Theatre

July 27 – Simple Minds – Ancient Theatre

 

August

August 6 – Francesco Gabbani – Ancient Theatre

August 8 – Gipsy Kings by Andrè Reyes – Ancient Theatre

 

September

September 2 – Antonello Venditti – Ancient Theatre

 

WHERE TO STAY

Hotel La Pensione SvizzeraHotel Villa SchulerHotel Villa Ducale – Hotel Villa Carlotta

Antonello Venditti

Notte prima degli esami TOUR

40th anniversary, 1984-2024

Ancient Theatre, Tuesday 2nd September 2025 @

 

Antonio “Antonello” Venditti (born 1949) is an Italian singer-songwriter and pianist who became popular in the 1970s for the social themes addressed in his songs.

 

TICKETS on ticketone
Platea: € 98,00
Gallery: € 98,00
Cavea, numbered seats: 85,00
Cavea, non-numbered seats: € 59,00

 

MORE INFO

www.facebook.com/AntonelloVendittiUfficiale

 

WHERE TO STAY

Hotel La Pensione SvizzeraHotel Villa SchulerHotel Villa Ducale – Hotel Villa Carlotta

 

Gipsy Kings

by Andrè Reyes

Ancient Theatre, Friday 8th August 2025 @9:00pm

 

Gipsy Kings (originally Los Reyes) are a musical group founded in 1979 in Arles, France. The band, whose members have Catalan heritage, play a blend of Catalan rumba, flamenco, salsa, and pop. They perform mostly in Spanish but also mix in Catalan, French, and languages of southern France, such as Occitan.

Although the group members were born in France, their parents were mostly gitanos (Spanish Romani) who fled Spain during the 1930s Spanish Civil War. They are known for bringing rumba flamenca, a pop-oriented music distantly derived from traditional flamenco and rumba, to a worldwide audience, and for their interpretations of English-language pop hits.

In the 1970s, José Reyes and Manitas de Plata were a duo who played rumba flamenca in the southern French town of Arles. When they split up, Reyes began performing with his sons, Nicolas, François (Canut), André, Patchaï, and Paul (Pablo), as José et Los Reyes (as well as being their family name, reyes means “kings” in Spanish). After their father’s death in 1979, the brothers continued to perform, joined by cousins and other relatives.

André Reyes performs with his own band, under the name Gipsy Kings by André Reyes. The group consists of André and a number of his relatives, including his son Thomas.

 

TICKETS on ticketone
Platea: € 86,00
Gallery: € 69,00
Cavea, numbered seats: 50,00
Cavea, non-numbered seats: € 38,00

 

MORE INFO

https://gipsykingsandrereyes.com
www.instagram.com/gipsykingsandrereyes

 

 

WHERE TO STAY

Hotel La Pensione SvizzeraHotel Villa SchulerHotel Villa Ducale – Hotel Villa Carlotta

 

 

Simple Minds

Ancient Theatre, Sunday 27th July 2025 @9.30pm

 

Simple Minds are a Scottish rock band formed in Glasgow in 1977, whose frontman is Jim Kerry.
The band became best known internationally for their song “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” (1985). They have sold more than 60 million albums worldwide and were the most commercially successful Scottish band of the 1980s.Simple Minds have had chart success in the United States, Australia, Germany, Spain, Italy and New Zealand.

Jim Kerr lives in Taormina, with his Japanese partner Yumi, where he owns the hotel Villa Angela. He has Italian citizenship.

 

TICKETS on ticketone and boxol

Parterre: € 92,00
Gallery: € 80,50
Cavea, central (numbered seats): € 69,00
Cavea, lateral (non-numbered seats): € 57,50

 

MORE INFO

https://www.simpleminds.com/

 

WHERE TO STAY

Hotel La Pensione SvizzeraHotel Villa SchulerHotel Villa Ducale – Hotel Villa Carlotta

 

Simple Minds

Ancient Theatre, Saturday 26th July 2025 @9.00pm

 

Simple Minds are a Scottish rock band formed in Glasgow in 1977, whose frontman is Jim Kerry.
The band became best known internationally for their song “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” (1985). They have sold more than 60 million albums worldwide and were the most commercially successful Scottish band of the 1980s.Simple Minds have had chart success in the United States, Australia, Germany, Spain, Italy and New Zealand.

Jim Kerr lives in Taormina, with his Japanese partner Yumi, where he owns the hotel Villa Angela. He has Italian citizenship.

 

TICKETS on ticketone and boxol

Parterre: € 92,00
Gallery: € 80,50
Cavea, central (numbered seats): € 69,00
Cavea, lateral (non-numbered seats): € 57,50

 

MORE INFO

https://www.simpleminds.com/

 

WHERE TO STAY

Hotel La Pensione SvizzeraHotel Villa SchulerHotel Villa Ducale – Hotel Villa Carlotta

Kraftwerk

Ancient Theatre, Friday 25 July 2025 @

 

Kraftwerk are a German electronic band formed in Düsseldorf in 1970 by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider. Widely considered innovators and pioneers of electronic music, Kraftwerk were among the first successful acts to popularize the genre. The group began as part of West Germany’s experimental krautrock scene in the early 1970s before fully embracing electronic instrumentation, including synthesizers, drum machines, and vocoders. Wolfgang Flür joined the band in 1973 and Karl Bartos in 1975, expanding the band to a quartet.

 

TICKETS on ticketone and boxol

Parterre: € 138,00
Gallery: € 115,00
Cavea, central (numbered seats): € 80,50
Cavea, lateral (non-numbered seats): € 57,50

 

MORE INFO

https://kraftwerk.com/

 

 

WHERE TO STAY

Hotel La Pensione SvizzeraHotel Villa SchulerHotel Villa Ducale – Hotel Villa Carlotta

 

S O T T O   I L   V U L C A N O   F E S T 2025

Alessandra Amoroso

Taormina Ancient Theatre, Saturday 12th July, 2025 @9.30pm

 

Alessandra Amoroso (1986) is an Italian pop/soul singer, songwriter, producer and TV personality. She has published nine studio albums and two live albums, topping the Italian Albums Chart eight times. Amoroso has also released successful singles and collaborations, including three number one hits, selling over 3 million records in Italy.
In 2014, she became the first female Italian artist to win the MTV Europe Music Award for Best European Act, winning overall three MTV Europe Music Awards, seven Wind Music Awards, and received several nominations at the Kids’ choice awards and World Music Awards.
(Source: Wikipedia)

 

TICKETS on Ticketone and boxol

Stalls (Platea): € 98,00
Gallery: € 95,00
Cavea (Upper Circle): € 85,00
Cavea (Upper Circle, non-numbered seats): 59,00

 

MORE  INFO

www.alessandraamoroso.it

 

WHERE TO STAY

Hotel La Pensione SvizzeraHotel Villa SchulerHotel Villa Ducale – Hotel Villa Carlotta

Giovanni Allevi

Musica Dall’Anima – Summer MMXXV

Ancient Theatre, Saturday 5th July 2025

 

TICKETS on ticketone
Platea: € 89,00
Gallery: € 79,00
Cavea, numbered seats: 69,00
Cavea, non-numbered seats: € 49,00

MEET AND GREET (+ CONCERT): € 126,50

 

 

MORE INFO

www.giovanniallevi.com/
https://www.facebook.com/giovanniallevi

 

 

WHERE TO STAY

Hotel La Pensione SvizzeraHotel Villa SchulerHotel Villa Ducale – Hotel Villa Carlotta

 

Dream Theater

40th Anniversary Tour

Ancient Theatre, Friday 4th July 2025 @ 8:30pm

 

Dream Theater is an American progressive metal band formed in 1985 in Boston, Massachusetts.

By 2018, Dream Theater had sold over 12 million records worldwide and they have received three Grammy Award nominations (including one win in 2022).

Along with Queensrÿche and Fates Warning, the band has been referred to as one of the “big three” of the progressive metal genre, responsible for its development and popularization.

 

TICKET on vivaticket
Cavea, numbered seats: € 86,25
Cavea, non-numbered seats: € 74,75

 

MORE INFO

https://dreamtheater.net/

 

 

WHERE TO STAY

Hotel La Pensione SvizzeraHotel Villa SchulerHotel Villa Ducale – Hotel Villa Carlotta

Taormina – Saint Valentine 2025 – Credit: messinatoday.it

Saint Valentine in Taormina

Fate l’Amore a Taormina

Piazza IX Aprile (Piazza Belvedere), Fabruary 15 2025

>> Free Events cured by the Associazione Perla Jonica Taormina

 

 

Friday 14 | 5:30pm – 7:00pm – Mr Fabris – Sax performance

 

Saturday 15 | 6:30am – 8:00am – Sunrise in Love – A new experience for Taormina! A sweet awakening with a live performance and a special corner where all the participants can enjoy free tea and coffee.

 

Saturday 15 | 5:00pm – 19:00pm – Happy Sunset – A fairytale sunset with piano notes and a voice that will make you dream.

 

Sunday 16 | 6:30pm – 9:30pm – Taormina Latin Party – Caribbean dances and 70/80’s rhythms.

 

MORE INFO

Associazione Perla Jonica: www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61553939727202

 

 

WHERE TO STAY

Hotel La Pensione SvizzeraHotel Villa SchulerHotel Villa Ducale – Hotel Villa Carlotta