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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.

 

FREE TICKETS AVAILABLE FOR THE GUESTS OF OUR HOTEL PARTNERS

ask the reception!

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

 

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

O P E R A   S E L E C T I O N

by Italian Opera Taormina

 

Cavalleria Rusticana

an Opera by Pietro Mascagni

Gardens of the Teatro Nazarena of Taormina on Sunday 13 July 2025 @9:15pm

 

An exclusive format with a selection of the most famous opera arias, performed by internationally acclaimed artists and accompanied by the piano.

 

Set in a Sicilian village and based on a short story by the Sicilian Giovanni Verga, Cavalleria Rusticana is a passionate tale of love, jealousy, and honor—one of the most powerful works of the Italian opera repertoire.

This special performance will feature professional opera singers in full costume, accompanied live on piano, offering a popwerful and intimate interpretation of one of the most passionate works in the italian operatic tradition.

Cast:
Carmen Salamone – Santuzza
Graziano D’Urso – Alfio
Moisès Molin – Turiddu
Sabrina Messina – Lola
Maria Motta– Mamma Lucia
Antonio Gennaro- pianist

Silvia Di Falco- art director

 

TICKETS

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🥂 €50 – includes a drink during the intermission | Entry at 8:45 PM, unassigned seating
👶 Free entry for children up to 6 years old

 

 

MORE INFO

Italian Opera Taormina > www.italianoperataormina.com – Phone:+39 340 642 62 30 – info@italianoperataormina.com

 

CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA

Cavalleria rusticana is an opera in one act by Pietro Mascagni to an Italian libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci, adapted from an 1880 short story of the same name and subsequent play by Giovanni Verga. Considered one of the classic verismo operas, it premiered on 17 May 1890 at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome.

Composition history

In July 1888 the Milanese music publisher Edoardo Sonzogno announced a competition open to all young Italian composers who had not yet had an opera performed on stage. They were invited to submit a one-act opera which would be judged by a jury of five prominent Italian critics and composers. The best three would be staged in Rome at Sonzogno’s expense.

Mascagni heard about the competition only two months before the closing date and asked his friend Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti, a poet and professor of literature at the Italian Royal Naval Academy in Livorno, to provide a libretto. Targioni-Tozzetti chose Cavalleria rusticana, a popular short story (and play) by Giovanni Verga, as the basis for the opera. He and his colleague Guido Menasci set about composing the libretto, sending it to Mascagni in fragments, sometimes only a few verses at a time on the back of a postcard. As Mascagni believed that the work was hastily written and not reflective of his best efforts, his courage deserted him and he placed the draft in a drawer, from where his wife, Argenide Marcellina “Lina” Mascagni, removed it and submitted it on the last day that entries would be accepted.

In all, 73 operas were submitted, and on 5 March 1890, the judges selected the final three: Niccola Spinelli’s Labilia, Vincenzo Ferroni [it]’s Rudello, and Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana.

 

 

WHERE TO STAY

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

Diego Basso plays The Queen

Taormina Ancient Theatre, Friday 11th July 2025 @9:00pm

 

Orchestra of the Taormina Opera Stars

Conductor: Diego Basso

Special Guest: Kerry Ellis

 

TICKETS on ticketone

Platea/Parterre central: € 75,00
Gallery: € 65,00
Cavea, central: € 50,00
Cavea, lateral (non-numbered seats): € 40,00

 

 

MORE INFO

Taormina Opera Stars  >> www.facebook.com/taorminaoperastars

 

WHERE TO STAY

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

Giolì and Assia

Resurrection TOUR

Ancient Theatre, Sunday 29th June 2025 @

 

Giolì & Assia are a young female Italian duo both producers, multi-instrumentalists, songwriters, record label owners, and DJs, creating music that blends the styles of singers, pop electronic, house, indie, and dance that is uniquely their own. Giolì plays the piano, cello, drums, guitar, and handpan, and Assia handles lead vocal duties as well as the guitar. They are best known for their #DiesisLive sessions they put out monthly, each shot in beautiful locations worldwide. The viral video of them performing on top of an active volcano at the Aeolian Islands in Sicily, Italy amassed over 18 million views and counting. Since their debut, the Italian multi-hyphenates have achieved consistent success garnering over 78 million YouTube streams, 9.8 million-plus Spotify streams and coveted spots on Spotify playlists such as “Mint,” “Dance Rising,” and “New Music Friday Italia.” They recently released their EP, Moon Faces via Ultra Records in February 2021, which features lead singles “For You” and “Your Lullaby.” With more new music and artist collaborations on the way, 2021 is set to be nothing short of spectacular.
(Source: electricbrixton.uk.com)

 

TICKETS on ticketsms (fees not included)
Parterre (Gold, standing, no seats): € 69,00
Gallery (Platinum, non numbered seats): € 51,00
Cavea (Gradinata, Silver,  non numbered seats): € 34,00

 

MORE INFO

https://gioliandassia.com

 

 

 

 

WHERE TO STAY

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