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Christmas in Taormina – Events
Christmas in Taormina 2019
Taormina, from December 1th 2019 to January 6th 2020
Here the list some of the events organised by the Town of Taormina.
For more details, please ckick on the image above.
2019
December 15 – Christmas concert by Kiwanis Club – Church of Santa Caterina @6.00pm
December 15 – Concert by Gabriella Cannavò – Congress Hall @7.30pm
December 16 – Christmas Concert by the students of the “Istituto Comprensivo 1” of Taormina – Cathedral @6.00pm
December 18 – Christmas Concert “Taormina In… canto natalizio” – Congress Hall @7.30pm
December 20 – Christmas Concert by Associazione Mousikè – Cathedral @8.00pm
December 20 – Living nativity Scene by the kids f Mazzeo – Schools of Mazzeo @4.30pm
December 20 – Christmas Concert by Mousikè Association – Cathedral @8.00pm
December 21 – Theathrical work – Congress Hall @9.00pm
December 22 – Theathrical work – Congress Hall @6.00pm
December 23 – Theatre and music “La cantata di li pasturi”- Congress Hall @7.30pm
December 24 – Lightening of the traditional bonfires by the Cathedral and the Church of Santa Caterina – @10.30pm – Bagpipers playing along the streets
December 25 – Bagpipers playing along the streets in town centre
December 26 – Christmas Concert by the Little Chorus Don Bosco of Taormina – Cathedral @7.00pm
December 27 – Opera Concert by C. Elisa Moschella – Cathedral @7.00pm
December 28 – Christmas concert “Natale… e dintorni” – Church of Santa Caterina @7.00pm
December 28 – Theathrical performance by Marco Bazzoni “La verità rende Single” – Congress Hall @8.30pm
December 29 – Theathrical performance “C’era una volta Giardini” – Congress Hall @6.00pm
December 29 – Christmas concert by Orchestra Mandolinistica Gioviale – Cathedral @7.30pm
December 30 – Christmas concert “Canti e melodie natalizie” – Cathedral @7.30pm
December 30 – Jazz Concert – Congress Hall @9.00pm
December 31 – New Year’s Eve Concert – Ancient Theatre @11.30
December 31 – New Year’s Eve Party – Piazza Duomo @10.00pm
2020
January 1 – “Corricapodanno a Taormina and 45th Dip in the Mediterranean Sea” – “Chico Scimone Trophy” – Beach of Villagonia @8.00am
January 1 – Award ceremony of the running event “Corricapodanno Taormina” – Piazza IX aprile @10.00am
January 1 – Bagpipers along the streets of the town centre
January 1 – New Year Concert by the Taormina Plectrum Orchestra – Congress Hall @7.30pm
January 3 – Music performance by Sandro di Bernardo & RainFaces – Congress Hall @6.30pm
January 5 – Theathrical performance “U contra” – Congress Hall @6.00pm
January 6 – Bagpipers along the streets of the town centre
WHERE TO STAY
Hotel La Pensione Svizzera – Hotel Villa Schuler – Hotel Villa Ducale – Hotel Villa Carlotta
December 14/28 – Exhibition “Charm of Art”
Charm of Art
“The charm of each work color your life”
Palazzo Duchi di Santo Stefano, December 14-28 2019
MORE INFO
www.facebook.com/charmofart
WHERE TO STAY
Hotel La Pensione Svizzera – Hotel Villa Schuler – Hotel Villa Ducale – Hotel Villa Carlotta
Dec. 13/Jan. 8 – Exhibition “White Noise”
White Noise
Contemporary Art
Palazzo Duchi di Santo Stefano, from December 13th 2019 to January 8th 2020
Opening hours
Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday: 10.00am – 2.00pm and 5.00pm – 7.00pm
Friday/Saturday/Sunday: 10.0am-7.00pm
Monday: closed
Free entrance
Considerations on white, works of Paolo Greco, Francesco Rinzivillo and Enzo Rovella.
MORE INFO
ProLoco Taormina > info@prolocotaormina.it – mobile 0039 347 678 0029
WHERE TO STAY
Hotel La Pensione Svizzera – Hotel Villa Schuler – Hotel Villa Ducale – Hotel Villa Carlotta
Dec. 13/Apr. 18 – Exhibition “Icons. Tradition/Contemporariness
ICONE Tradizione/Contemporaneità
ex Church of Sant’Agostino in piazza IX aprile, from December 13th 2019 to April 18th 2020
Opening hours: everyday 10.00am-7.00pm
Post-byzantine icons in north-west Sicily and their contemporary interpretation.
Made by Greek iconographers who moved to Sicily the 17th and 18th centuries, these masterpieces are today kept in the churches of Piana degli Albanesi and Mezzojuso (Sicily, near Palermo).
The historical icons are combined by 12 contemporary works by Sicilian and Greek artists who gave their personal interpretation of the “sacre”
Greek artists: Manolis Anastasakos, Dimitris Ntokos, Nikos Moschos, Kostantinos Papamichalopoulos, Zoi Pappa, Christos Tsimaris.
Sicilian artists: Giuseppe Bombaci, Sandro Bracchitta, Giorgio Distefano, Roberto Fontana, Antonino Gaeta e Ignazio Schifano.
MORE INFO
Taormina Culture Office, council member Ms Francesca Gullotta
ufficio.cultura@comune.taormina.me.it – Ph. 0039 0942 610 260
www.facebook.com/francesca.gullotta.39
WHERE TO STAY
Hotel La Pensione Svizzera – Hotel Villa Schuler – Hotel Villa Ducale – Hotel Villa Carlotta
Dec. 4/Jan. 15 – Exhib. “Von Gloeden, Taormina e il Mediterraneo”
PHOTO EXHIBITION
Von Gloeden, Taormina e il Mediterraneo
Del Carmine ex-church, from December 4th 2019 to January 15th 2020
curated by Luca Beatrice and Willy Montini
Opening hours
Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday: 10.00am – 2.00pm and 3.00pm – 7.00pm
Saturday/Sunday: 10.00am – 7.00pm
Monday: closed
Free entrance
A photo exhibition of some of the most beautiful photographs taken by baron Whilelm Von Gloeden who spent in Taormina most of his life and, thanks to his work, made our town worlwide famous.
The exhibition – by displaying more than twenty original photographs now belonging to the artist Bruno Di Bello – aims to show the artistic evolution of the photographer, detailing his journey from the first nudes to the last portraits.
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ABOUT WHILELM VON GLOEDEN
Wilhelm Iwan Friederich August Freiherr von Gloeden (September 16, 1856 – February 16, 1931) was a German photographer who worked mainly in Italy. He is mostly known for his pastoral nude studies of Sicilian boys, which usually featured props such as wreaths or amphoras suggesting a setting in the Greece or Italy of antiquity. From a modern standpoint, his work is commendable due to his controlled use of lighting as well as the often elegant poses of his models. His innovations include the use of photographic filters and special body makeup (a mixture of milk, olive oil, and glycerin) to disguise skin blemishes.
After studying art history in Rostock (1876), Gloeden studied painting under Karl Gehrts [de] at the Weimar Saxon-Grand Ducal Art School (1876–77) until he was forced by lung disease (apparently tuberculosis) to interrupt his studies for a year, convalescing at a sanatorium in the Baltic Sea resort of Görbersdorf. In a search for health, he travelled to Italy (1877–78), first staying in Naples before moving on to Taormina in Sicily. He lodged at the Hotel Vittoria before buying a house near San Domenico Convent. Apart from the period 1915-18, during the First World War, when he was forced to leave Sicily to avoid internment as an enemy alien, he remained in Taormina until his death in 1931.
The mayor of Taormina in 1872-82 was the German landscape painter Otto Geleng [de] (1843–1939), who had moved there in 1863. Through him, Gloeden became acquainted with the local inhabitants. He set up his photographic studio in Taormina at first as a hobby and was exhibiting his work internationally by 1893 (London), including Cairo (1897), Berlin (1898–99, including a solo exhibition), Philadelphia (1902), Budapest & Marseilles (1903), Nice (1903 & 1905), Riga (1905), Dresden (1909) and Rome (World Fair 1911).
(Sorce: Wikipedia)
Where to stay
Hotel La Pensione Svizzera – Hotel Villa Schuler – Hotel Villa Ducale – Hotel Villa Carlotta
Dec. 19/23 – Santa Claus Home
The Home of Santa Claus
From December 19th to 23rd 2019 @ Hotel Isabella (Corso Umberto, 58)
Opening hours: 4.00pm-8.00pm
Free entrance
Bring your kids to meet the Christmas elves and write with them a letter to Santa Claus.
Where to stay
Hotel La Pensione Svizzera – Hotel Villa Schuler – Hotel Villa Ducale – Hotel Villa Carlotta
Oct. 25/Feb. 21 – Meeting the Photography – Immagini & Parole
Immagini & Parole – 6th ed.
Taormina meets the Sicilian Photography
Organised by the Photo Association “Taormina… click”
Saletta Conferenze, Archivio Storico (Via Teofane Cerameo) @ 5.30pm
A series on nine seminars with some of the main Sicilian photographers.
Meet Laura Tellini
www.facebook.com/laura.tellini.5
Meet Ornella Mazzola
www.facebook.com/ornella.mazzola.1
Meet Fia Zappalà
www.facebook.com/fia.zappala
Meet Gaetano Belverde
www.facebook.com/gaetano.belverde – www.facebook.com/rogika.robertomendolia/videos/2616279068459042/
Friday December 21 – L’amima dei pupi
Meet Alessandro Ingoglia
Friday January 10 – Bucarest e i segreti sotterranei
Meet Samuele Formichetti
Friday January 24 – Suddenly
Meet Peppe Gambino
Friday February 7 – in-CONTRO-al-LA-LUCE and Allusiva
Meet Enrico La Bianca and Attilio Scimone
Friday February 21 – Antologia in bianco e nero
Meet Enrico Borrometi
MORE INFO
Associazione Fotografica Taoclick
www.facebook.com/groups/taoclick
robertomendolia@live
Where to stay
Hotel La Pensione Svizzera – Hotel Villa Schuler – Hotel Villa Ducale – Hotel Villa Carlotta
Sept. 23 /Oct. 20 – Autunno all’Odeon
Autunno all’Odeon
Musics and plays by the small theatre “Oeon” (200 seats)
Entrance: € 12,00 (residents € 10,00)
Odeon, via Teatrino Romano @ 6.30pm
Tickets
Ctbox shops in Sicily: www.ctbox.it
In Taormina: at the “Casa del Cinema” in Corso Umberto I n. 61 and on site half an hour before the beginning of the show.
Comuicato stampa (Italian press release)
OPENING OF THE SEASON
Monday, September 23rd
PUNTI DI VISTA
Direction: Monica Felloni
Compagnia Nèon Teatri
Thursday, September 26th
CARMEN AVELLONE ‹ VITO GIORDANO QUINTET
Guests: Brass Talents
Gaetano Castiglia trumpet
Gaetano Laura trmpet
in collaboration with The Brass Group
Friday, September 27th
MUSICHE DEL NOSTRO TEMPO
BEPI GARSIA piano
music by Gershwin, Debussy
in collaboration with The Brass Group
Saturday, September 28th
MAURIZIO MASTRINI piano
original musics by Maurizio Mastrini
in collaboration with Associazione Musicale Almoetia
Sunday, September 29th
I SOLISTI DI OPERA LABORATORIO
Arias from operas by G. Verdi, G. Donizetti, G. Puccini, P. Mascagni, V. Bellini
Saturday, October 5th
Plectrum Orchestra “CITTA’ DI TAORMINA”
Direction: Antonino Pellitteri
Music by Pullara, Verdi, Mascagni, Sollima, Gulotta, Morricone.
Fort the first time together withe soprano Francesca Adamo Sollima
The Taormina Plectrum Orchestra was founded at the beginning of the 20th century by a few local friends. Today it counts many musicians playing mandolins, mandolas, mandoloncelli, guitars and double basses.
www.orchestraaplettro.it/english.html
Sunday, October 6th
HOMAGE TO FRENCH MUSIC
CARLA AVVANTAGGIATO- MAURIZIO MATARRESE 4 hands piano
Music by Debussy, Ravel, Faurè
in collaboration with Associazione Musicale Almoetia
Thursday, October 10th
NOTE DALL’INFERNO – DANTE IN JAZZ
with Gigi Borruso
music by Diego Spitaleri and Fabio Lannino
Interview to Dante by Gery Palazzotto (in Italian)
Friday, October 11th
A TRIBUTE TO THE MUSIC OF DIANE SHUUR
with Lucy Garsia, Umberto Porcaro, Fabrizio Giambanco, Diego Spitaleri and Fabio Lannino
Saturday, October 12th
DUO NEW VISIONS
ANTONIO SERRATORE- LODI LUKA clarinet and piano
Music by Piazzolla, Galliano, Boccadoro, Luka, Porro, Galante
in collaboration with Associazione Musicale Almoetia
Friday, October 18th
LOTUS FLOWER – THE DREAM OF LIFE
DT Junior Ballet – Choreography by Alessandra Scalambrino
Soulsville – SKILLIE CHARLES ORCHESTRA
11.30am >> SICILIAN PUPPET SHOW by and with Giovanni Calcagno
La canzone di Orlando
Martirio dei Franchi a Roncisvalle
Vendetta dei Cristiani
In collaboration with the Pasqualino Puppet Museum
More info:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Roncevaux_Pass
www.museodellemarionette.it/en/
18.30 >> DANCING KEYS
GEORGI MUNDROV piano
Music by Chopin, Debussy, Albeniz, Ginastera
in collaboration with Associazione Musicale Almoetia
MORE INFO
Fondazione Taormina Arte
www.facebook.com/fondazionetaorminartesicilia – www.taoarte.it – info@taoarte.it – Infoline 009 391 746. 2146
Where to stay
Hotel La Pensione Svizzera – Hotel Villa Schuler – Hotel Villa Ducale – Hotel Villa Carlotta
Sep. 21 – Pio e Amedeo
Pio e Amedeo
“La classe non è qua”
Ancient Theatre, September 21st 2019
Pio D’Antini (August 20, 1983) and Amedeo Grieco (August 25, 1983) are an Italian comedy duo who work on stage, film, television and books as Pio e Amedeo.
TICKETS on ticketone.it
Stalls (Parterre): € 79,00
Gallery: € 69,00
Upper circle (numbered seats): € 49,00
Upper circle (non-numbered seats): € 29,00
Sep. 15 – The Look of The Year
Taormina, September 12th-16th, 2019
Gala evening at the Ancient Theatre on Sunday 15th
Host: Jo Squillo
MORE INFO ASAP
www.facebook.com/thelookoftheyearitalia
info@thelookoftheyearitalia.it
www.facebook.com/thelookoftheyearitalia