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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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September 17-22 – Saperi e Sapori
Piazza Falcone Borsellino – Taormina Trappitello
September 17th – 22nd 2013
Fair of the typical foods of the Alcantara Valley. Program includes food tasting and food market. Music and dance shows in the evenings.
On Sunday 22nd green cycle tour and late breakfast at the Villa Antonella agritourism farm.
MORE INFO
Town of Taormina: +39 0942.628322
ufficio.turismo@comune.taormina.me.it
ASM Taormina: +39 0942.23605
info@taorminaservizipubblici.it
Download the program (in Italian)
Sept. 14 / Oct. 6 – Fabio Salafia
Paint exhibition by Fabio Salafia
Palazzo Duchi di Santo Stefano (near Porta Catania)
September 14th / October 6th 2013
Free entrance
Fabio Salafia (1979) is a Sicilian artist born in Grammichele (near Catania) who will exhibit 16 recent works, expression of the close connection between the artist and the nature.
September 12/15 – Plectrum Festival
Greek Theatre
September 12th to 15th 2013, 6.00pm – FREE ENTRY
At the setting of the sun, in the Greek Theatre f Taormina, the mandolin and the plectrum instruments are magic
Download the playbill – Download the English Program
PROGRAM
Thursday, September 12th
Plectrum Orchestra City of Milan
Conductor: Augusto Scibilia
Musics by: Calace, Vivaldi, Eterandi, Silvestri, Szordikowski, Piazzolla, Rola, Kreidler, Nagaoka, Arlen, Jenkins and Anderson.
Friday, September 13th
Ensemble “L’altra Musica” (Caserta)
Tarantulae and other stories of music
Luca Natale (mandolin, mandola, mandocello), Francesco Natale (guitar), Ascanio Trivisano (violin), Francesco Faraldo (percussion instruments).
Musics by: Gioviale, Leonardi, Faraldo, Natale, Kircher
Saturday, September 14th
Kizuna Quartet (Japan)
Miki Nishiyama (mandolin), Alessandro Bono (guitar), Mikako Ogawa (salterio, hackbrett) Masayo Yokouchi (mandolin).
Musics by: Ortiz, Caroso, Frescobaldi, Arrigoni, Motta, Merchi, Bortolazzi, Gervasio
Sunday, September 15th
Quintetto a Pizzico “Zomos” (Palermo)
Raffaele Pullara (mandolin), Mauro Schembri (mandolin), Flavio D’Ambra (guitar) Giovanni Confaloni (guitar), Andrea Scimè (double bass)
Musics by: Bartòk, Rossini, Grismonti, Joplin, Koji
Taormina Plectrum Orchestra
Conductor: Antonino Pellitteri
Musics by: Calace, Ambrosius, Albin, Munier, Kurwahara, Gulotta
Quintetto a Pizzico “Zomos AND Taormina Plectrum Orchestra
Conductor: Antonino Pellitteri
Musics by: Calace, Verdi
MORE INFO
Taormina Arte – +39 0942 628730 / 21142 – www.taormina-arte.com
Taormina Plectrum Orchestra – www.orchestraaplettro.it
Taormina Greek Theatre
September 9 – Schlomo Mintz
Schlomo Mintz
Greek Theatre
September 9th, 2013, 9.30pm
Shlomo Mintz is an Israeli violin virtuoso, violist and conductor. He regularly appears with orchestras and conductors on the international scene and is heard in recitals and chamber music concerts around the world.
In Taormina he will be accompanied by the Turkish Youth Philharmonic – conducted by Cem Masur – and will perform the Violin Concerto in D major, Op.61 by Ludwig van Beethoven.
He will also play pieces by Vincenzo Bellini (Norma overture), Gioacchino Rossini (Guillaume Tell overture), Giuseppe Verdi (Macbeth) and other masters of the music.
Tickets on boxol.it.
Ticket Office in Taormina: +39 0942.628730
Stalls (Parterre): € 45,00
Gallery: € 33,00
Upper circle (numbered seats): € 22,00 – Under 18/Over 65: € 17,00
Upper circle (non-numbered seats): € 18,00 – Under 18/Over 65: € 12,00
More Info Taormina Arte >> info@taormina-arte.com – tel. +39 0942 21142
September 7 – Great Female Voices
Taormina Public Gardens
September 7th 2013, 9.00pm
Tribute to five great female voices: Whitney Huston, Dionne Warwick, Barbra Streisand, Celine Dion and Mina.
Free entrance
September 7 – Bellini Verdi Wagner Galaz
Greek Theatre
September 7th 2013, 9.30pm
BELLINI FESTIVAL
The Bellini Opera Festival, conducted by Francesco Di Mauro and Brian Schembri, and Lucia Aliberti, one of the world most talented soprano of these days, will perform some of the most famous pieces of the three great authors.
This year the Bellini Festival, born in 2009 to commemorate the Sicilian Vincenzo Bellini, will give homage also to Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner since this year is the bicentenary of their birth.
The program includes Norma, The Puritans (V. Bellini), Twilight of the Gods, The Walkyrie, Tannhauser (R. Wagner) La Traviata, The two Foscari, The Force of Destiny (G. Verdi).
Tickets on boxol.it. Ticket Office in Taormina: +39 0942.628730
Stalls (Parterre): € 55,00
Gallery: € 45,00
Upper circle (numbered seats): € 33,00 – Under 18/Over 65: € 28,00
Upper circle (non-numbered seats): € 22,00 – Under 18/Over 65: € 18,00
More Info Taormina Arte >> info@taormina-arte.com – tel. +39 0942 21142
Christmas in Taormina – Full program
Christmas in Taormina 2013
December 2013 / January 2014
Taormina Events Calendar 2013
January 2013
December 1st 2012 / January 6th 2013 – Taormina Christmas Market
December 20th 2012 / January 6th 2013 – Cioccolart Sicily, 4th Edition
Dcember 26th 2012 / January 13th 2013 – Living Nativity Scene in Taormina Trappitello
January 4th / February 16th – Photo exhibition on the nature reserve of Isola Bella
January 10th / 29th – Art exhibition by Pippo Consolo
February 2013
February 16/ to 26 – DI-SEGNI, drawing exhibition
March 2013
March 2/16 – Photo Exhibition “Nel Silenzio”, previous church of San Francesco di Paola
March 9/18 – Paint exhibition by Vanecha Roudbaraki, preious church Del Carmine
March 9 – Taormina Classica – Art Gallery Ensamble, church of Santa Caterina
March 16 – Taormina Classica – Duo Bourton/Cicero, church of Santa Caterina
March 22 – Taormina Classica – Duo Bechstein, church of Santa Caterina
March 29 / April 1 – Taormina model making exhibition, previous church Del Carmine
April 2013
April 1 – Taormina model making exhibition, previous church Del Carmine
April 7 – Taormina Classica – Duo Zampini, church of Santa Caterina
April 13 and 14 – Sicilian Puppet show by the Gargano Family, courtyard of the Palazzo Corvaja
April 19 – Taormina Classica – Trio Calliope, church of Santa Caterina
April 20 and 21 – FlorArt, artistic floral exhibition along the flight of steps of Taormina
April 21 – Taormina Classica – Martin Munch, church of Santa Caterina
May 2013
May 1 / 15 – Painting and sculptures by the painter Fiamma Zagara (Rome) and the Sicilian sculpture Nino Ucchini (Savoca)
May 1 / June 2 – Exhibition by Emilio Leoffredi “Raising awareness for India and Tibet exiles”, NN Gallery
May 2/30 – Photo Exhibition “Nel Silenzio”
May 4 and 5 – Sicilian Puppet show by the Gargano Family
May 11 and 12 – Ecological Garden in town
May 12 – Taormina Classica – Frank Wasser
June 2013
June 2 – Il Giardino Ecologico Eco Trade Show – Organic prduct and tastings, exhibition and organic gardening, ecological architecture, sustainable tourism and renewable energy. Conclusion at around 9.00pm with a concert – Taormina Public Gardens
June 8 and 9 – “Ceramicando” – Open Air pottery workshop and exhibition along the streets of Taormina.
June 14/30 – Exhibition “L’anima della Luce” by Palmina Barbagallo, previous Church of San Francesco di Paola
June 15/22 – Taormina Film Fest
June 15 – Man of Steel, Italian Prèmiere (Taormina FilmFest)
June 15/22 – Exhibition: “50 anni di Gerardo Sacco”
June 16 – Killing Season (Taormina Film Fest)
June 17 – Song for Marion (Taormina FilmFest)
June 16 / September 30 – Exhibition: “Il cinema sopra Taormina”
June 18 – Cha cha cha (Taormina Film Fest)
June 18/20 – Taormina Media Award, journalistic prize
June 19 – Java Heat (Taormina Film Fest)
June 20 – Trance (Taormina Film Fest)
June 21 – Parental Guidance (Taormina Film Fest)
June 22 – The Lone Ranger (Taormina Film Fest)
July 2013
July 1 / September 30 – Exhibition: “Il cinema sopra Taormina”
July 2 / September 30 – Exhibition: “1983/2013 – 30 years of Taormina Arte”, previous church Del Carmine
July 6 – Silver Ribbon Awards
July 6 / 7 – 2° Taormina Rally Event
July 7 – “Rigoletto” by Verdi (OPERA)
July 9 – “Rigoletto” by Verdi (OPERA)
July 13 – Enrico Guarneri in Mastro Don Gesualdo
July 15 / October 30 – Exhibition “In viaggio con Leonardo”, previous Church of San Francesco
July 16 – An evening with Mark Knopler
July 17 – Incognito
July 20 – Ludovico Einaudi
July 21 – Luisa Kuliok in “The String of Pearls” a monologue by Helena Tritek
July 24 – George Benson
July 26 – Roberto Bolle and the American Opera Ballet
July 27 – Cocciante canta Cocciante
July 28 – Zucchero’Sugar’ Fornaciari in La sesiòn cubana
July 28/30 – Reliquario pope Giovanni Paolo II
July 29 – Cesare Cremonini “Solo Piano”
July 30 – Baustelle
July 31 – Patti Smith
August 2013
August 1 / September 30 – Exhibition: “Il cinema sopra Taormina”
August 1 / September 30 – Exhibition “Isolabella, underwater treasures” (Museum Villa Busurgi on the island of Isolabella)
August 1 / September 30 – Exhibition “Leonardo da Vinci’s machines”, church of San Francesco di Paola
August 1 / September 30 – Exhibition: “1983/2013 – 30 years of Taormina Arte”, previous church Del Carmine
August 2 / 6 – Taormina Jazz Festival
August 8 – “Cavalleria Rusticana (Rustican Chivalry)” by Mascagni (OPERA) and Carmina Burana
August 10 – “I Pagliacci” by Leoncavallo (OPERA)
August 12 – “Cavalleria Rusticana (Rustican Chivalry)” by Mascagni (OPERA) and Carmina Burana
August 14 – “I Pagliacci” by Leoncavallo (OPERA)
August 16 – Gershwin / L. Astanova
August 17 – Renzo Arbore e L’Orchestra Italiana
August 17 – Italian Opera – Arias by The marriage of Figaro (Mozart), La Traviata (Verdi), Elisir D’Amor (Donizetti), Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini), Madame Butterfly and La Boheme (Puccini)
August 18 – Ballet Company of the Vienna State Opera
August 19 – Enrico Brignano – Il meglio d’Italia Tour 2013
August 19 – Italian Opera – Arias by The marriage of Figaro (Mozart), La Traviata (Verdi), Elisir D’Amor (Donizetti), Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini), Madame Butterfly and La Boheme (Puccini)
August 20 – Max Gazzè
August 22 – Eleonora Abbagnato and the stars of the Paris Opera House
August 23 – Pooh and the Ensemble Symphony Orchestra
August 23 – Italian Opera – Arias by The marriage of Figaro (Mozart), La Traviata (Verdi), Elisir D’Amor (Donizetti), Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini), Madame Butterfly and La Boheme (Puccini)
August 24 – Giovanni Allevi
August 25 – Blue in concert
August 25 – Italian Opera – Arias by The marriage of Figaro (Mozart), La Traviata (Verdi), Elisir D’Amor (Donizetti), Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini), Madame Butterfly and La Boheme (Puccini)
August 26 – Marco Mengoni in concert
August 26 – Italian Opera – Arias by The marriage of Figaro (Mozart), La Traviata (Verdi), Elisir D’Amor (Donizetti), Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini), Madame Butterfly and La Boheme (Puccini)
August 27 – Antonello Venditti -Unica Tour, Gran Finale
August 28 – Mario Biondi in concert
August 29 – Mario Galeani
August 29 – V. Lisitsa performs Rachmaninov – CANCELLED
August 30 – Italian Opera – Arias by The marriage of Figaro (Mozart), La Traviata (Verdi), Elisir D’Amor (Donizetti), Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini), Madame Butterfly and La Boheme (Puccini)
August 31 – The Look of the Year 2013
August 31 – Italian Opera – Arias by The marriage of Figaro (Mozart), La Traviata (Verdi), Elisir D’Amor (Donizetti), Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini), Madame Butterfly and La Boheme (Puccini)
September 2013
September 1-22 – Exhibition by Paolo Greco, previous Church San Francesco di Paola
September 1/30 – Exhibition: “Il cinema sopra Taormina”
September 1/30 – Exhibition “Leonardo da Vinci’s machines”, church of San Francesco di Paola
September 1/30 – Exhibition: “1983/2013 – 30 years of Taormina Arte”
September 1/ October 31 – Vincent Pirruccio Street Exhibition
September 1 – Italian Opera – Arias by The marriage of Figaro (Mozart), La Traviata (Verdi), Elisir D’Amor (Donizetti), Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini), Madame Butterfly and La Boheme (Puccini)
September 3 – Italian Opera – Arias by The marriage of Figaro (Mozart), La Traviata (Verdi), Elisir D’Amor (Donizetti), Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini), Madame Butterfly and La Boheme (Puccini)
September 5 – Italian Opera – Arias by The marriage of Figaro (Mozart), La Traviata (Verdi), Elisir D’Amor (Donizetti), Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini), Madame Butterfly and La Boheme (Puccini)
September 7 – “Bellini Verdi Wagner Opera Gala” with Lucia Aliberti
September 7 – Great Female Voices, Taormina Public Gardens
September 8 – Italian Opera – Arias by The marriage of Figaro (Mozart), La Traviata (Verdi), Elisir D’Amor (Donizetti), Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini), Madame Butterfly and La Boheme (Puccini)
September 9 – Schlomo Mintz
September 11 – Italian Opera – Arias by The marriage of Figaro (Mozart), La Traviata (Verdi), Elisir D’Amor (Donizetti), Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini), Madame Butterfly and La Boheme (Puccini)
September 12/15 – Plectrum Orchestra Festival
September 13 – Italian Opera – Arias by The marriage of Figaro (Mozart), La Traviata (Verdi), Elisir D’Amor (Donizetti), Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini), Madame Butterfly and La Boheme (Puccini)
September 14 / October 6 – Art exhibition by Fabio Salafia
September 14- Italian Opera – Arias by The marriage of Figaro (Mozart), La Traviata (Verdi), Elisir D’Amor (Donizetti), Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini), Madame Butterfly and La Boheme (Puccini)
September 14 – October 6 – Art exhibition by Fabio Salafia
September 17 – Italian Opera – Arias by The marriage of Figaro (Mozart), La Traviata (Verdi), Elisir D’Amor (Donizetti), Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini), Madame Butterfly and La Boheme (Puccini)
September 19 – Italian Opera – Arias by The marriage of Figaro (Mozart), La Traviata (Verdi), Elisir D’Amor (Donizetti), Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini), Madame Butterfly and La Boheme (Puccini)
September 21/27 – TAOBUK, the Taormina Book Festival
September 24 – Italian Opera – Arias by The marriage of Figaro (Mozart), La Traviata (Verdi), Elisir D’Amor (Donizetti), Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini), Madame Butterfly and La Boheme (Puccini)
September 26 – Italian Opera – Arias by The marriage of Figaro (Mozart), La Traviata (Verdi), Elisir D’Amor (Donizetti), Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini), Madame Butterfly and La Boheme (Puccini)
September 28 and 29 – Ecological Garden in Taormina
September 28 – Italian Opera – Arias by The marriage of Figaro (Mozart), La Traviata (Verdi), Elisir D’Amor (Donizetti), Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini), Madame Butterfly and La Boheme (Puccini)
September 29 – Italian Opera – Arias by The marriage of Figaro (Mozart), La Traviata (Verdi), Elisir D’Amor (Donizetti), Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini), Madame Butterfly and La Boheme (Puccini)
October 2013
October 1/31 – Vincent Pirruccio Street Exhibition
October 1/6 – Art exhibition by Fabio Salafia
October 5 – “Prima vigilia noctis” 2nd edition – Concerts in the churches of Taormina (church of Santa Caterina)
October 6 – “Prima vigilia noctis” 2nd edition – Concerts in the churches of Taormina (church of Varò)
October 12 – “Prima vigilia noctis” 2nd edition – Concerts in the churches of Taormina (church of San Giuseppe)
October 13 – “Prima vigilia noctis” 2nd edition – Concerts in the churches of Taormina (church of Santa Caterina)
October 19 – “Prima vigilia noctis” 2nd edition – Concerts in the churches of Taormina (church of Varò)
October 20 – “Prima vigilia noctis” 2nd edition – Concerts in the churches of Taormina (Cathedral)
October 26 – “Prima vigilia noctis” 2nd edition – Concerts in the churches of Taormina (church of San Pancrazio)
October 27 – “Prima vigilia noctis” 2nd edition – Concerts in the churches of Taormina (Cathedral)
December 2013
December 20 2013/ January 6 2014 – CioccolArt Sicily, 5th edition
December 21-January 9 – Art exhibition on San Francis of Paola, church San Francesco di Paola
August 31 -The Look of the Year
The look of the Year Fashion Awards
Taormina Greek Theatre, 8.30pm
Stalls (Parterre): € 16,50
Upper circle (non-numbered seats): € 11,50
Tickets on ctbox.it and boxol.it
The LOOK OF THE YEAR is the most important fashion event all over the world, whose aim is to select and to launch models in the world of modelling. The Look of the Yaer is also a recognition that will be given every year to the most creative stylists, to the magazines and to the best professionalists of the sector. The aim is to create a direct line among who creates fashion, who promotes it and who wears it by profession. The event is addressed to an increasingly interested public, to a continuous rendezvous with fashion that finds rising number of girls willing to participate at The Look of The Year. The LOOK OF THE YEARs style is in agreement with its location. The international event, located in Taormina / Giardini Naxos, usual destination of the international jet-set, where the most prestigious names of the international fashion take part. The selection is made up of the most known professionalists of the world of look, photographers, stylists and models. It starts with the participation of about 200.000 girls, from 16 years old to 22 years old, minimum height 1,78m, size 40/42, giving to all of them equal opportunity to take part at the event, without discriminating colour, race, religion or ethnic origin. THE LOOK OF THE YEAR is able to involve every year more than 40 countries, making use of numerous Seats all over the world. The organisers, thanks to the media, radio, television and newspapers, promote the event and the research of the models for the international phase. (source: thelookoftheyear.tv)
More info on www.thelookoftheyear.tv
August 29 – CANCELLED – Valentina Lisitsa
THE CONCERT IS CANCELLED
You can either use you ticket for tonight’s concert of M A R I O G A L E A N I or ask your seller to refund the face value of the tickets
Tickets’ refund is only available between August 23th to September 7th
Valentina Lisitsa
Taormina Greek Theatre
August 29th 2013, 9.30pm
Valentina Lisitsa comes back to Taormina for a new concert.
With more than 30 million YouTube channel views, Valentina Lisitsa is one of the most watched classical musicians on the Web, using digital innovation to champion classical music and performance.
Tonight in Taormina, Valentina will perform the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in A minor. op 16 by Grieg and Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43 by Rachmaninov and Warsaw Concert of Addinsell.
Valentina Lisitsa was born in Kiev, Ukraine and began playing the piano at the age of three, performing her first solo recital a year later. She gained a place at the Lysenko Music School for Gifted Children and later studied at the Kiev Conservatory under Ludmilla Tsvierko. In 1991 she won the first prize in The Murray Dranoff Two Piano Competition together with Alexei Kuznetsoff. She now resides in the USA.
Tickets on boxol.it and ticketone.it
Ticket Office in Taormina: +39 0942.628730
Stalls (Parterre) and Gallery: € 22,00
Upper circle (non-numbered seats): € 14,00