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 Jazz Festival
Taormina Jazz Festival
6th edition
July 10 and 18 – August 3, 5 and 6 2015
Gardens of the Excelsior Palace Hotel @ 9.30pm
Entrance + cocktail >> € 15,00
Info & Booking at the Excelsior Palace Hotel
T. 0039 0942 23975
info@excelsiorpalacetaormina.it
www.excelsiorpalacetaormina.it
Here you can download the Italian/English leaflet
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByYVI_QbCJCxRVhPWGJoYkhsY0E/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByYVI_QbCJCxdFNBcVA4UTRaSmM/view?usp=sharing
P R O G R A M
July 10 – Taormina Jazz Festival – Joyce Yuille Quintet
Joyce Yuille – Voice
Rino Cirinnà – Sax
Andrea Beneventano – Piano
Nello Toscano – Double Bass
Peppe Tringali – Drums
July 18 – Taormina Jazz Festival – Sam Mortellaro Trio
Sam Mortellaro – Piano
Angelo Minacapilli – Double Bass
Francesco Alessi – Drums
August 3 – Taormina Jazz Festival – Rossano Emili Sextet “In Limine”
Rossano Emili – Sax baritone, clarinetto basso
Manuele Morbidini – Sax alto
Igor Spallati – Double Bass
Pedro Spallati – Sax tenor e soprano
Massimo Morganti – Trombone
Ugo Alunni – Drums
August 5 – Taormina Jazz Festival – Wine Hot Sextet
Alessandro Presti – Trumpet, Saxhorn
Sebastiano Ragusa – Sax alto, baritone and tenor
Fabrizio Cassarà – Sax tenor and soprano
Fabrizio Brusca – Guitar
Carmelo Venuto – Double Bass
Emanuele Primavera – Drums
Javier Girotto – Sax soprano, baritone, Andine Flutes
David Brutti – Sax soprano
Matteo Villa – Sax alto
Davide Bartelucci – Sax Tenor
Massimo Valentini – Sax baritone
July 7 – Odissey
ODYSSEY
A Sicilian Love Story
July 7 2015, Greek Theatre @ 9.30pm
Ballet
TICKETS boxol.it and ticketone.it
Stalls (Parterre): € 64,80
Gallery: € 48,60
Upper circle (numbered seats): € 37,80
Upper circle (non-numbered seats): € 21,60
Jul. 5 / Sep. 6 – Pablo Picasso
Palazzo Corvaja, from July 5 to September 6 2015
Entrance: € 7,00
Opening hours:
Monday – Friday >> 10.00am – 2.00pm and 5.00pm – 12.00pm
Saturday – Sunday >> 10.00am – 2.00pm and 5.00pm – 01.00am
(Ticket office closes 30mins before closing time)
Download the poster – Download the leaflet
A complete journey through the work of the Great Artist and a discovery of the passions that accompanied him throughout his life, as well as the evolution of his artistic language.
The works on display here recount all those subjects that were dearest to the great Spanish master as well as his interpretation of reality with the theater and the circus, which he had fallen in love with from the very beginning of his life in Paris together with his friend Gershwin. This was in addition to the ultimate expression of his greatest passion: bullfighting. The exhibition of course would not be complete without a section devoted to his relationships with women and politics. All these passions were, undoubtedly, throughout his career, the objects of his quest to redefine extant artistic motifs with his own definitive visual language. He was the only artist of the Twentieth Century who was capable of concerning himself with all the techniques attributable to the art world at the highest levels, as will be seen in this exhibition. Picasso earned the title of Genius because he stopped at nothing and even when he was of a very old age, he sought to challenge himself and to experiment. This is the challenge of this great show, to make the visitors fully realize the complexity of Picasso, through the more human aspects. Picasso who loomed as one of the titans of the world of art during the last century, continues to strongly influence art, and not only that of our century.
More info
picassoelesuepassioni@comediarting.it
picassoelesuepassioni.comediarting.it
picassoelesuepassioni on fB
July 4-5-6 – L’Ora del Rosario
Fiorello in
L’ORA DEL ROSARIO
Taormina Greek Theatre, July 4, 5 and 6 2015 @9.30pm
Rosario Tindaro Fiorello (born 16 May 1960), known just as Fiorello, is an Italian comedian, singer, radio, and television presenter.
Fiorello was born in Catania, Sicily. He began his career working in tourist villages as an entertainer. Near the end of the 1980s, Fiorello began hosting the show “Viva Radio Deejay”. Having become popular through the TV show Karaoke, Fiorello went on to host various TV shows.
Since 2002, Fiorello has hosted the radio broadcast Viva Radio 2 together with Marco Baldini, during which Fiorello shows off his skills as a singer, mimic and entertainer.
Fiorello’s skills as a vocalist have brought him to the cinema as well. He has participated in such varied roles as: a dubber in cartoons (most recently Garfield), to an appearance in the film The Talented Mr. Ripley, in the role of Fausto, a young Italian friend of the main characters.
On November 14, 2011 Fiorello back on television with a new program entitled “Il più grande spettacolo dopo il weekend” (inspired by the song “Il più grande spettacolo dopo il Big Bang” of his friend Lorenzo Jovanotti). The first episode showed excellent results, with 10 million viewers and almost 40% share. The data, already outstanding, to further improve in the second episode (with over 12 million viewers and a share of almost 43% [10]) and third (almost 12 million viewers and over 43% share).
Fiorello’s most famous imitations include Mike Bongiorno, and that of Silvio Berlusconi as a character called Smemorato di Cologno who, in the parody, loses his memory every time something related to communism is mentioned.
TICKETS on ticketone.it
June 30 – George Gershwin
George Gershwin
Jazz Concert by Stefano Di Battista
Orchestra Teatro Vittorio Emanuele (Messina)
TICKETS on ticketone.it and boxol.it
Stalls (Parterre): € 55,00
Gallery: € 40,00
Upper circle (numbered seats): € 28,50
Upper circle (non-numbered seats): € 23,00
Jun. 28 – Una festa per Bevilacqua e Sgarbi
Una festa per Alberto Bevilacqua e Vittorio Sgarbi
June 28 2015 in Via degli Artisti (Street of Artists) @ 6.30pm
Art, Handcraft, Arabian Dance, Food and Wine.
More info as soon as possible!
June 27 – Silver Ribbon Awards
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
Ticket Office in Taormina: +39 0942.094221142/628730
info@taormina-arte.com
Stalls (Parterre) and Gallery: € 20,00
Upper circle (numbered seats): € 15,00
Upper circle (non-numbered seats): € 10,00
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