As soon as you arrive in Taormina, you will feel the magical, mythical atmosphere spread all around which has enchanted visitors from all over the world for years and years.
Settled on a hill of the Monte Tauro, Taormina dominates two grand, sweeping bays below and on the southern side, the top of Mount Etna, the european highest active volcano, often capped with snow, offering to the visitors a breathtaking, dramatic and memorable view.
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- Taormina Events 202501/01/2025 - 12:01 AM
DISCLAIMER The information and material on this website is general in nature and is intended for your touristic use and information. We try our best to constantly update our contents. The Taormina Friends Club accepts no responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of any information contained herein and recommends that users exercise their own skill […]
- September 13, 2025 – Carmen by G. Bizet13/09/2024 - 12:26 AM
S I C I L I A C L A S S I C A F E S T I V A L Carmen an Opera by Georges Bizet Ancient Theatre, September 13 2025 @ 9:300pm Carmen is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written […]
- September 11, 2025 – Francesco De Gregori11/09/2024 - 12:30 AM
Francesco De Gregori Rimmel 2025 Ancient Theatre, Thursday 11th September 2025 @ 9:30pm Francesco De Gregori OMRI (born 4 April 1951) is an Italian singer-songwriter. In Italy, he is popularly known as “Il Principe dei cantautori” (“The Prince of the singer-songwriters”), a nickname referring to the elegance of his lyrics. Although often referred as […]
August 2, 2025 – Ennio Morricone Tribute
F E S T I V A L L I R I C O D E I T E A T R I D I P I E T R A
Ennio Morricone Tribute
Ancient Theatre, Saturday 2nd August 2025 @ 9.00pm
TICKETS on ticketone (commissions not included)
Platea central (gold): € 75,00
Platea lateral: € 65,00
Gallery, central (gold): € 55,00
Gallery, lateral: € 45,00
Cavea, central (numbered seats): € 33,00
Cavea, lateral (non-numbered seats): € 22,00
MORE INFO
Coro Lirico Siciliano – www.coroliricosiciliano.com – www.facebook.com/coroliricosiciliano
WHERE TO STAY
Hotel La Pensione Svizzera – Hotel Villa Schuler – Hotel Villa Ducale – Hotel Villa Carlotta
July 31, 2025 – Hans Zimmer Tribute
F E S T I V A L L I R I C O D E I T E A T R I D I P I E T R A
Hans Zimmer Tribute
Taormina Ancient Theatre, Thursday 31st July 2025 @9:00pm
Hans Florian Zimmer (born 1957) is a German film score composer and music producer. He has won two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, five Grammy Awards, and has been nominated for three Emmy Awards and a Tony Award. Zimmer was also named on the list of Top 100 Living Geniuses.
His works are notable for integrating electronic music sounds with traditional orchestral arrangements. Since the 1980s, Zimmer has composed music for over 150 films. His works include Gladiator (2000), The Last Samurai (2003), the Pirates of the Caribbean series (2003–2011), The Dark Knight trilogy (2005–2012), Inception (2010), Man of Steel (2013), Interstellar (2014), Dunkirk (2017), No Time to Die (2021), and the Dune series (2021–).
During his childhood, he was strongly influenced by the film scores of Ennio Morricone and has cited Once Upon a Time in the West as the score that inspired him to become a film composer.
TICKETS on ticketone (commissions not included)
Platea/Parterre central (gold): € 75,00
Platea/Parterre lateral: € 65,00
Gallery, central (gold): € 55,00
Gallery, lateral: € 45,00
Cavea, central: € 33,00
Cavea, lateral (non-numbered seats): € 22,00
MORE INFO
Coro Lirico Siciliano – www.coroliricosiciliano.com – www.facebook.com/coroliricosiciliano
WHERE TO STAY
Hotel La Pensione Svizzera – Hotel Villa Schuler – Hotel Villa Ducale – Hotel Villa Carlotta
July 30, 2025 – CCCP
CCCP Fedeli Alla Linea
Ancient Theatre, Wednesday 30th July 2025 @ 9:30pm
CCCP Fedeli alla Linea is an Italian band formed in 1982 in Berlin by vocalist Giovanni Lindo Ferretti and guitarist Massimo Zamboni. The band’s style is self-defined by the members themselves as “Musica Melodica Emiliana—Punk Filosovietico” (“Emilian Melodic Music—Philo-soviet punk”). CCCP’s works influenced dozen of artists such as Marlene Kuntz, Massimo Volume, and Offlaga Disco Pax.
TICKETS on ticketone
Platea: € 80,50
Gallery: € 69,00
Cavea, numbered seats: 57,50
Cavea, non-numbered seats: € 46,00
MORE INFO
www.facebook.com/cccp.fedeli.alla.linea
Event organised by Fondazione Taormina Arte – info@taormina-arte.com
WHERE TO STAY
Hotel La Pensione Svizzera – Hotel Villa Schuler – Hotel Villa Ducale – Hotel Villa Carlotta
July 29, 2025 – Aida
F E S T I V A L L I R I C O D E I T E A T R I D I P I E T R A
AIDA
An opera by Giuseppe Verdi
Ancient Theatre, Tuesday 29 July 2025 @ 9.00pm
TICKETS on ticketone (commissions not included)
Platea: € 98,00
Gallery, central (gold): € 85,00
Gallery, lateral: € 77,00/66,00
Cavea, central (gold): € 60,00
Cavea, lateral: € 50,00/40:00
Cavea, non-numbered seats: € 27,50
MORE INFO
Coro Lirico Siciliano – www.coroliricosiciliano.com – www.facebook.com/coroliricosiciliano
WHERE TO STAY
Hotel La Pensione Svizzera – Hotel Villa Schuler – Hotel Villa Ducale – Hotel Villa Carlotta
July 27, 2025 – Simple Minds
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 Svizzera – Hotel Villa Schuler – Hotel Villa Ducale – Hotel Villa Carlotta
July 26, 2025 – Simple Minds
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 Svizzera – Hotel Villa Schuler – Hotel Villa Ducale – Hotel Villa Carlotta
July 25, 2025 – Kraftwerk
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 Svizzera – Hotel Villa Schuler – Hotel Villa Ducale – Hotel Villa Carlotta
July 22, 2025 – Peppe Barra
F E S T I V A L T A O R M I N A A R T E
Peppe Barra
Si tenesse vint’anne..
Ancient Theatre, Tuesday 22th July 2025 @ 9:30pm
Giuseppe “Peppe” Barra (born 24 July 1944) is an Italian folk singer, actor, playwright and composer.
Born in Rome into a family of Procidan actors, when he was only 6 Barra enrolled in an acting school for children, Teatrino di Zietta Liù. In the early 1970s, he befriended Roberto De Simone and entered the Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare ensemble, with whom he stayed until 1978.
In 1982, Maurizio Scaparro as artistic director of the Carnival of Venice asked Barra to make a performance, and on this occasion Barra launched “Peppe e Barra”, a musical that marked the beginning of the stage company “Peppe e Concetta Barra” with his mother Concetta, and that got a large success, being staged in Italy for several seasons and also performed in New York, Paris, Barcelona, Bonbay and Geneva, among other places. In 1992, he made his solo discographic debut with Mo vene, for which he won the Targa Tenco for Best Performer. His variegated career also include films and television.
TICKETS on ticketone and boxol
Platea: € 30,00
Gallery: € 20,00
MORE INFO
www.facebook.com/PeppeBarraOfficial
WHERE TO STAY
Hotel La Pensione Svizzera – Hotel Villa Schuler – Hotel Villa Ducale – Hotel Villa Carlotta
July 18, 2025 – Roberto Bolle and Friends
Roberto Bolle and Friends
Ancient Theatre, Friday 18th July 2025 @9:30pm
A night of Stars and great ballet
For those passionate about ballet, a Gala is an incredibly exciting event.
These followers go to see their stars for their virtuosity, their charisma, and the sheer excitement of being part of such a breathtaking experience.
For those who have only recently entered this world, a gala offers an overview of the most beautiful ballets of the 19th and 20th century repertoire just in one evening.
Excitement and delight grow when a gala is created by Roberto Bolle and the stars who gather around him.
Roberto has proved to be the only dancer able to successfully produce such an event carrying his own name.
He trained at La Scala Ballet School and his brilliant carrier took off immediately following his entry into the company along with invites to the most important theatres in the world.
The attention Roberto has received from the Media and his presence as guest star at the greatest international events has made him a unique example of a star and a world-class dancer.
His ability to gather great crowds and create enthusiasm is reinforced by the gala Roberto Bolle and Friends which includes a splendid group of étoiles who travel Italy and worldwide.
Roberto selects only the best dancers in the world who have reached international fame to perform in his gala.
This event offers the unique occasion to admire many of the most famous dancers in the world on stage.
The beauty of this occasion is that the audience experiences the diverse techniques, schools and styles of these many world-class dancers. The program of the Gala changes with each performance, but the dancers always perform pieces ranging from much-loved classical repertoire to modern and contemporary ballets.
(Source: https://robertobolle.com/rb-and-friends)
TICKETS on ticketone
Parterre: € 145,00
Gallery, central: € 130,00
Gallery, lateral: € 120,00
Cavea, central (numbered seats): € 75,00
Cavea, lateral (numbered seats): € 60,00
Cavea, lateral (NON-numbered seats): € 45,00
MORE INFO
https://robertobolle.com/rb-and-friends/
https://robertobolle.com
WHERE TO STAY
Hotel La Pensione Svizzera – Hotel Villa Schuler – Hotel Villa Ducale – Hotel Villa Carlotta
July 15, 2025 – PFM, Premiata Forneria Marconi
F E S T I V A L T A O R M I N A A R T E
PFM
Doppia Traccia Tour 2025
Ancient Theatre, Tuesday 15 July 2025 @9:30
PFM, Premiata Forneria Marconi (translation: Award-winning Marconi Bakery) is an Italian progressive rock band founded in 1970 which continues to the present day. They were the first Italian group to have success internationally. The group recorded five albums with English lyrics between 1973 and 1977. During this period they entered both the British and American charts.
TICKETS on ticketone
Platea: € 40,00
Gallery: € 30,00
Cavea, non-numbered seats: € 20,00
MORE INFO
www.facebook.com/premiataforneriamarconiofficial – www.pfmworld.com
Fondazione Taormina Arte – www.facebook.com/fondazionetaorminartesicilia – info@taorminaarte.org – Mob. +39 391 746 2146
WHERE TO STAY
Hotel La Pensione Svizzera – Hotel Villa Schuler – Hotel Villa Ducale – Hotel Villa Carlotta