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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Leonard Bernstein Gala STARS OF BROADWAY – ORCHESTRA OF NEW YORK Taormina Ancient Theatre, Wednesday 1st October 2025 @ 9:00pm The extraordinary music of the author of West Side Story Conductor: Wynton Marsalis TICKETS on vivaticket Gallery, sector A-E (very lateral): € 45,00 / Reduced (under 25 and over 70): € 35,00 Gallery, sector […]
- September 20, 2025 – West Side Story20/09/2024 - 12:33 AM
West Side story Taormina Ancient Theatre, Saturday 20th September 2025 @ 9:00pm A musical. A timeless masterpiece, a story of love and rivalry with Bernstein’s unforgettable music. TICKETS on ticketone (commissions not included) Platea/Parterre central (gold): € 75,00 Gallery: € 75,00 Cavea, central: € 50,00 Cavea, lateral (non-numbered seats): € 40,00 MORE INFO […]
June 27 – Silver Ribbon Awards
69th Silver Ribbon Awards Ceremony
Taormina Greek Theatre
June 27th 2015, 9.30pm
The Nastro d’Argento (Silver Ribbon) is a movie award assigned each year, since 1946, for cinematic performances and production by the Sindacato Nazionale dei Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani, the association of Italian film critics. The Nastro d’argento is the oldest movie award in Europe, and the second oldest in the world (only the Academy Awards are older). The awards are given during a fashion gala night held at the Taormina Greek Theatre.
TICKETS online on boxol.it
Ticket Office in Taormina: +39 0942.094221142/628730
Stalls (Parterre) and Gallery: € 20,00
Upper circle (numbered seats): € 15,00
Upper circle (non-numbered seats): € 10,00
June 13 – Inside Out
6 1 t h T A O R M I N A F I L M F E S T
June 13 – 20 2015
INSIDE OUT
Taormina Greek Theatre, June 11th 2015 @ 9.30pm
Pixar’s new film Inside Out floored critics when it screened at the Cannes film festival in May, and this new clip offers a tiny peak at what they found so charming.
Directed by Pete Docter (Up), Inside Out shows the struggle going on the head of 11-year-old Riley as as her emotions get to grips with puberty and a distruptive move to San Francisco. Each emotion is represented by a different character, with Joy being played by Comedian Amy Poehler and Disgust by Mindy Kaling.
Watch the official trailer : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seMwpP0yeu4
TICKETS on boxol.it
Stalls (Parterre): € 13,00
Upper circle (non-numbered seats): € 8.00
June 13/20 – Gian Paolo Barbieri
Gian Paolo Barbieri, il regista della moda
June 13/20 2015, Palazzo Corvaja
Opening hours: every day from 10.30am to 1.30pm and from 5.00pm to 9.30pm (additional hours on request).
Free Entrance
A selection of historical pics taken – between 1969 and 2014 – by Gian Paolo Barbiri who is judged to be one of the most important Italian fashion photographers.
His works are displayed, among the others, at the Victoria and Albert Museum of Lonon, at the Kunstforum of Vienna and at the National Portrait Gallery of London.
Read the full press release
Jun.12/Jul.13 – Sicilian Cart Museum
Sicilian Cart Exhibition
June 12 – July 13 2015 , Church of Carmine
Del Carmine church, everyday from 10.00am to 10.00pm.
Entrance: € 5,00
During the period of the exhibition, parades of Sicilian Carts along the main street of Taormina, storytellers and traditional dances in the main squares of town: piazza IX Aprile, piazza Badia and piazza Duomo.
June 11 – Jurassic World
6 1 t h T A O R M I N A F I L M F E S T
June 11 – 20 2015
JURASSIC WORLD
Taormina Greek Theatre, June 11th 2015 @ 9.30pm
Twenty-two years after the events of Jurassic Park, Isla Nublar, an island located off Central America’s Pacific Coast near Costa Rica, now features a fully functioning dinosaur theme park, Jurassic World, as originally envisioned by John Hammond. This new park is owned by the Masrani Global Corporation. Owen Grady (Chris Pratt), a member of the park’s on-site staff, conducts behavioral research on a group of Velociraptors, known as Blue, Charlie, Delta and Echo. At the corporation’s request, the park’s geneticists create a hybrid dinosaurs known as Indominus rex (created from the DNA of Giganotosaurus, Rugops, Majungasaurus, and Carnotaurus) to boost visitor attendance. Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard) is the park’s operations manager. Her nephews, Zach (Nick Robinson) and Gray (Ty Simpkins), are visiting the island when the hybrid escapes and are subsequently caught up in the creature’s deadly rampage. Now, it is up to Owen and Jurassic World’s security team to contain the hybrid dinosaur before she can cause more damage.
Watch the official trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFinNxS5KN4
TICKETS on boxol.it
Stalls (Parterre): € 13,00
Upper circle (non-numbered seats): € 8.00
More info: www.jurassicworld.com
June 11-20 – Taormina Film Fest
61th edition
June 12 – 20 2015, Greek Theatre and other locations
pre-opening on June 11th
The Program – The Guests daybyday – Film in Competition – Rassegna stampa (press release in Italian)
WATCH the 61th Film Fest commercial
https://youtu.be/tiy4xcf5EUM
June 11 >> JURASSIC WORLD by Colin Trevorrow
Tickets on boxol.it
Twenty-two years after the events of Jurassic Park (1993), Isla Nublar now features a fully functioning dinosaur theme park, Jurassic World, as originally envisioned by John Hammond. After 10 years of operation and visitor rates declining, in order to fulfill a corporate mandate, a new attraction is created to re-spark visitor’s interest, which backfires horribly.
June 13 >> INSIDE OUT by Pete Docter (Disney – Pixar)
Tickets on boxol.it
Watch a little girl struggle with her emotions in a new clip from Pixar’s latest masterpiece, starring Amy Poehler and Mindy Kaling
June 14 >> TORNO INDIETRO E CAMBIO VITA by Carlo Vanzina
Tickets on boxol.it
June 15 >> Last two episodes of 5th season GAMES OF THRONES by David Nutter
June 16 >> WHILE WE’RE YOUNG by Noah Baumbach
with Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts
June 17 >> HOT PURSUIT by Anne Fletcher
June 18 >> HOW TO MAKE LOVE LIKE AN ENGLISHMAN by Tom Vaughan
with Pierce Brosnan, Salma Hayek, Jessica Alba
Tickets on boxol.it
June 19 >> TAO ANNIVERSARY 1995-2015 >> THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY by Clint Eastwood
with Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep
Tickets on boxol.it
June 20 >> 600 MILES by Gabriel Ripstein
with Tim Roth, Kristyan Ferrer, Monica del Carmen
Tickets on boxol.it
T A O C L A S S E S
the actors meet students, press and public
Patricia Arquette, Rupert Everett, Richard Gere, Ellen Pompeo Gabriele Salvatores, Carlo and Enrico Vanzina, Susan Sarandon
C A M P U S
Rosario Dawson and Abrima Erwiah, Claudio Bisio, Dolph Lundgren, Fabrizio Biggio and Francesco Mandelli, Nicolas Vaporidis, Matteo Branciamore, Primo Reggiani “Italiana” with David Bogi, Elisa Santoni, Marco Tardelli and Gianfranco Vissani, James Marsden
Andrea Miccichè, President di NuovoIMAIE with Sergio Rubini
Ticket Office in Taormina @ Taormina Arte:
Tel. +39 0942.628730 – 0039 0942 21142 info@taormina-arte.com www.taormina-arte.com
June 1/6 – Ballet and Opera
TAORMINA OPERA
Greek Theatre @ 9.30pm
June 1 2015, Monday – La Vie en Rose… Bolero – Tickets
Ballet.
June 2 2015, Tuesday – Gala Lirico Viva L’Italia – Tickets
On the occasion of the Feast of the Italian Republic, arias from some of the most important Italian operas and melodramas.
June 3 2015, Wednesday – Carmen Suite – Tickets
Ballet.
June 5 2015, Friday – La Bohème – Tickets
A Antonio De Lucia production, from the Pompei Festival.
Opera
June 6 2015, Saturday – La Bohème – Tickets
A Antonio De Lucia production, from the Pompei Festival.
Opera
TICKETS
Stalls (Parterre): € 88,00
Gallery: € 55,00
Upper circle (numbered seats): € 45,00
Upper circle (non-numbered seats): € 23,00
Apr. 19 / May 17 – Passione
Passione – Art Exhibition by Michele Cannaò
Palazzo Duchi di Santo Stefano, from April 19 to May 17 2015
Open from Tuesday to Sunday, 8.30am – 1.30pm and 3.30pm – 7.30pm.
Free entrance
Artworks by Michele Cannaò. Main theme is the “via crucis”, the suffering, the purgatory each man has to face in this life.
More info: www.cannao.net
His paints on the Via Crucis: www.cannao.net/pittura/crucis/crucis.htm
April 3 – Good Friday Procession
Taormina, April 3 2015 – Late afternoon/night
Good Friday is a religious holiday observed primarily by Christians commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and his death at Calvary. The holiday is observed during Holy Week on the Friday preceding Easter Sunday. In Taormina, the event starts in the late afternoon just before dusk, as hundreds of women clad in black, carrying orange-colored lanterns, descend the narrow steps linking the main streets, and begin the procession. A group of women support on their shoulders a statue of the blessed mother engulfed by flowers. A band playing somber music processes behind them, while the men of begin their march, bearing the statue of Jesus on their shoulders. The entire group slowly walks to the duomo and back.
All shop’s lighting and all street illumination on the Corso Umberto will be switched off, as soon as the procession is arriving. Only the candles of the procession give some low light. When it is passed by, the shopkeepers switch on the lights again.
Whether you’re Catholic or not, you can’t help but get caught up in the beauty, the history and the solemnity of the occasion.
(credit: Ciao Chow Linda and others).
Apr. 3 / Nov. 30 – Piccolo-Grudda
“Fantasie Visonarie”
Art exhibition by Casimiro Piccolo and Carin Grudda
Greek Theatre, from April 3 to November 30 2015
Entrance: € 2,00
Same hours of the Greek Theatre: from 9.00am to one hour before sunset.
Info about the exhibition and the authors (in Italian)
More info as soon as possible!