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 Events 202631/12/2025 - 12:14 AM
EVENTS IN TAORMINA 2026 DISCLAIMER The information and material on this website is general in nature and is intended for your touristic use and information. We try our best to constantly update our contents. The Taormina Friends Club accepts no responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of any information contained herein and recommends that users […]
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Taormina Food Expo 5th edistion Taormina Congress Hall, from Thursday 12 to Sunday 15 November 2026 Free Entrance This year the food and wine festival will be held from November 12 to 15, 2026, in a new and prestigious setting: the Taormina Palacongressi. Four days entirely dedicated to agri-food excellence. An event showcasing Italian […]
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August 8 and 12 – Carmina Burana & Cavalleria Rusticana
Carmina Burana with Cavalleria Rusticana (Rustic Chivalry)
Taormina Greek Theatre, 9.30pm
Cavalleria rusticana is an opera in one act by Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945) to an Italian libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci, adapted from a play written by Giovanni Verga based on his short story.
It is the first and best known Mascagni’s works. Its success has been phenomenal from its first performance in the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on May 17, 1890 until the present day. At the time of Mascagni’s death in 1945, the opera had been performed more than 14,000 times in Italy alone.
“The Teatro Illustrato invites young Italian musicians to participate in a new competition for a one-act opera.” In 1888, the publisher Sonzogno launched its second competition for young Italian composers. The winner was Pietro Mascagni with Cavalleria rusticana, and so it was that this story of an honour killing in a Sicilian village in the late nineteenth century, from a short story of the same name by Verga, entered the operatic canon.
Owing to the intense dramatic power of the score and libretto, the opera quickly became recognised as a manifesto of Italian verism.
(Source: www.symphonyspace.org)
Santuzza. Daniela Dessì,
Turiddu: Fabio Armiliato
Lola: Giuseppina Piunti
Mama Lucia: Maria José Trullu
Stage Director & Set Designer: Enrico Castiglione
PRICES FROM TODAY TO MARCH 10th
Stalls (Parterre): € 75,00
Gallery: € 50,50
Upper circle (numbered seats): € 39,00
Upper circle (non-numbered seats): € 22,00
PRICES FROM MARCH 10th TO APRIL 30th
Stalls (Parterre): € 85,00
Gallery: € 57,00
Upper circle (numbered seats): € 44,00
Upper circle (non-numbered seats): € 27,50
PRICES FROM MAY 1st TO JUNE 30th
Stalls (Parterre): € 95,00
Gallery: € 63,00
Upper circle (numbered seats): € 49,00
Upper circle (non-numbered seats): € 33,00
PRICES FROM JULY 1st TO EVENT
Stalls (Parterre): € 105,00
Gallery: € 70,00
Upper circle (numbered seats): € 54,00
Upper circle (non-numbered seats): € 38,00
Tickets on boxol.it for August 8 and August 12 and on ctbox.it
Ticket Office in Taormina: +39 0942.628730
SYNOPSIS
A Sicilian village, c. 1890. Early on Easter morning, Turiddu sings about his former beloved, Lola, now the wife of a wine carter, Alfio. As the town stirs, Santuzza, Turiddu’s neglected sweetheart, comes looking for the handsome youth at the tavern of his mother, Lucia. The girl reveals she has been excommunicated, but before she can explain why, Alfio comes by with friends, boasting about his pretty young wife. A religious procession fills the square and enters the church for mass, leaving Santuzza to tell Mamma Lucia that Turiddu has taken up with Lola again. When the old woman has gone to mass, Santuzza confronts Turiddu with his betrayal. Lola passes by, and Turiddu follows her into church. Santuzza hurls a curse after him, then, consumed by jealousy, tells Alfio of Lola’s infidelity. Santuzza immediately feels remorse, but the damage is done.
When the mass ends, Turiddu and the villagers drink wine, after which Alfio insults Turiddu, who accepts a challenge to duel with knives in a nearby orchard. He begs his mother to take care of Santuzza if he does not return. As Mamma Lucia and Santuzza wait anxiously, shouts rise in the distance. A woman stumbles in crying Turiddu has been killed.
(Source: www.metoperafamily.org)
August 2/6 – Taormina Jazz Festival
Taormina Jazz Festival
Taormina Public Gardens
August 2 – 6 2013, 9.30pm – Free entrance
Now in its fourth edition, the Sicilian Jazz Event returns to Taormina from August 2nd to 6th, 2013. The Taormina Jazz Festival, which enjoys the art direction by Toti Cannistraro, aims to promote jazz as an art form, celebrating the rich variety of traditional standards and innovations of its more experimental expressions.
Taormina The Jazz Festival is to be held at the picturesque scenery of the Public Gardens in Taormina, and is an initiative supported by private individuals who want to offer quality music to the town of Taormina, to its audience and to the many tourists, with no entry fee.
During the concerts, Cottanera winemaker will offer tastes of their wines produced in the Etna area. Milan-based bookstore Birdland will set up booths with Jazz books, CDs and DVDs.
PROGRAM
August 2 – Seamus Blake Quartet Feat. David Kikoski
Seamus Blake – Sax, David Kikoski – Piano, Matt Clohesy – Bass, Ari Hoenig – Drums
August 3 – Bill Carrothers Trio
Bill Carrothers – Piano, Drew Gress – Bass, Bill Stewart – Drums
August 4 – Mario Raja Big Bang 25°
Mario Raja – Tenor Sax and arrangement, Alice Ricciardi – Voice, Claudio Corvini – Trumpet, Francesco Lento – Trumpet, Roberto Schiano – Trombone, Carlo Conti – Baritone Sax , Daniele Tittarelli – Alto Sax, Enrico Bracco – Guitar, Pietro Lussu – Piano, Luca Fattorini – Bass, Armando Sciommeri – Drums
August 6 – Enrico Rava “Sicilia Project”
Enrico Rava – Trumpet, Giuseppe Asero – Alto Sax, Dino Rubino – Piano, Nello Toscano – Contrabbass, Mimmo Cafiero – Drums
More info on www.taorminajazzfestival.it
Aug./Sep – Isolabella, underwater treasures
Villa Bosurgi on Isolabella islet, August 1st – September 30th 2013
from 9.00am to 6.30pm. Closed on Monday
The little island of Isolabella is situated within the bay of the same name and is joined to the mainland by a short isthmus, submerged or above sea-level depending on the ride. It represents, without doubt, one of the most suggestive and renowned historical landscape of the Mediterranean. On the islet there is and old villa called Villa Bosurgi, which is articulated in a series of pavilions camouflaged to merge wit the rocks of the landscape. Today the island is a Nature Reserve and the villa hosts a Museum with nature finds and photos of the shallow waters washing the islet.
From August 1st through all September 2013 the museum will host a special Archaeological collection whose masterpiece is an old sword with a bronze sheath found in the Bay in 1991.
More info
Parco Archeologico Naxos
urp.parco.archeo.naxos@regione.sicilia.it
Tel. +39 0942 51001 – Fax +39 0942571813
July 31 – Patti Smith
Greek Theatre, 9.30pm
Stalls (Parterre): € 65,00
Gallery – central: € 65,00
Gallery – lateral: € 55,00
Upper circle (numbered seats): € 46,00
Upper circle (non-numbered seats): € 35,00
Tickets on boxol.it ctbox.it and ticketone.it
Ticket Office in Taormina: +39 0942.628730
July 30 – Baustelle in concert
Ghost Tour 2013
Taormina Greek Theatre
July 30th 2013, 9,30
Baustelle is an indie rock band from Siena, Italy. Formed in the mid-’90s in the Tuscan town of Montepulciano, Italy, Baustelle (a German word that means “construction site” – or “building site” in English) raised attention with their third album: La Malavita (2005) .
Mixing the romantic sounds of British artists like the Smiths and Depeche Mode, with Italian composers like Ennio Morricone and Angelo Badalamenti and American acts like Television and Scott Walker, as well as with modern sounds of electronica and indie rock, the record gained immediate attention in the group’s home country, resulting in an extensive nationwide tour. In 2010 the band release I Mistici dell’Occidente and in 2013 Fantasma.
On stage a simple scenography: microphone and stool for Francesco Bianconi (leader, vocals, guitar and synths), amplifier and pedal for Claudio Brasini (guitar), and the the baby grand piano for Rachel Bastreghi (vocals and keys).
Organized in collaboration with Catania Jazz.
Tickets on boxol.it
Stalls (Parterre) and Gallery: € 27,50
Upper circle (non-numbered seats): € 22,00
July 29 – Cesare Cremonini
Taormina Greek TheatreJuly 29 2013, 9.30pm
A special evening, an unicum by Cesare Cremonini who, at the end of his Tour, will perform, for the first time, without his band: it will be just he and his piano. Only in Taormina, in the magnificent set of the Greek Theatre.
Cremonini: << Piano e voce. Io e voi. Sarà un concerto unico in cui potremo vivere 16 anni di canzoni e musica senza filtri. Guardandoci negli occhi. Perchè è vero che le canzoni si scrivono ad occhi chiusi, ma al Teatro antico vanno tenuti bene aperti e sarà magico circondarsi dall’atmosfera di un posto unico al mondo. >>
Tickets on boxol.it and ticketone.it
Ticket Office in Taormina: +39 0942.628730
Stalls (Parterre): € 52,00
Gallery: € 46,00
Upper circle (numbered seats): € 38,00
Upper circle (non-numbered seats): € 30,00
July 28 – Zucchero in concert
ZUCCHERO “SUGAR” Fornaciari
“La Sesión Cubana” Tour
Taormina Greek Theatre
July 28 2013, 9.30pm
Zucchero Sugar Fornaciari comes back to Taormina for a great concert during “La Sesión Cubana tour 2013. Obviously in the stunning set of the Taormina Greek Theatre!
In December 2012 Zucchero released a new album “La Sesión Cubana”, entirely recorded in Cuba. The album can boasts the collaboration of Bebe and Djavan, Don Was and Michael Brauer and is already been awarded with the “platinum disc” award.
During the “La Sesión Cubana” tour Zucchero will perform new and old hits such as “Bacco Perbacco”, “Così Celeste”, “Guantanamera”, “Baila”, “Diamante”, “Vedo Nero”, “Overdose D’Amore”, “Con Le Mani”, “Diavolo In Me”, “Per Colpa di Chi” and many others.
Tickets on ctbox.it and ticketone.it
Stalls (Parterre): € 80,50
Gallery: € 69,00
Upper circle (numbered seats): € 63,25
Upper circle (non-numbered seats): €40,25
Ticket Office in Taormina: +39 0942.628730
THE BAND
Polo Jones: Bass player/MD
Kat Dyson: Guitar player/backing vocals
Mario Schilirò: Guitar player
Adriano Molinari: Drums player
Nicola Peruch: Keyboards
Horacio Hernandez: Drums player
Elmer Ferrer: Tres guitar
Joaquin Nunez Hidalgo: Percussions
Jorge Luis Nunez: Percussions
Karel Escalona: Timbales
Lazaro Amauri: Trumpet
Osmil Rene’: Trumpet
Maykel Fernando: Trombone
Dorian Carol: Backing vocals
Dyalis De Regla: Backing vocals
Liuba Calvo: Backing vocals
July 27 – Riccardo Cocciante
July 27th 2013
Greek Theatre, 9.30pm
Tickets on boxol.it and ticketone.it
Ticket Office in Taormina: +39 0942.628730
Stalls (Parterre): € 74,80
Gallery: € 69,00
Upper circle (numbered seats): € 49,50
Upper circle (non-numbered seats): € 34,50
Riccardo Cocciante, also known in French-speaking countries and the U.S. as Richard Cocciante (born 1946), is an Italian singer-songwriter, composer and musician. His oeuvre includes recordings in Italian, French, English, and Spanish; he has recorded some of his songs in all four languages.
He was born in Saigon, Vietnam, now Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, to an Italian father and a French mother. He moved to Rome, Italy at the age of 11 where he attended school and started his career as musician coming to success around 1972. He also lived in the USA and Ireland. In 1976, Cocciante covered the Beatles song “Michelle” for the musical documentary “All This and World War II”, as well as releasing his sole English album in the US.
In 1991 he won the Sanremo Festival with the song “Se stiamo insieme”, and for Christmas 1997 legendary Spanish operatic tenor and friend Plácido Domingo invited him to sing at Domingo’s annual Christmas in Vienna concert, together with Sarah Brightman and Helmut Lotti.
As of 2008, Cocciante has three musicals running, probably Notre-Dame de Paris being the most known. This musical may later be put into competition against another musical in progress, Disney’s Hunchback of Notre Dame (musical).
July 26 – Roberto Bolle & the American Ballet
Taormina Greek Theatre
July 26th 2013, 9.00pm
Roberto Bolle and the most talented dancers of the American Ballet of New York will perform in the outstanding frame of the ancient Greek Theatre of Taormina.
Roberto Bolle trained at La Scala Ballet School where he entered at the age of 11. Rudolf Nureyev was the first to notice his talent and he chose Roberto to interpret Tadzio in the ballet Death in Venice. In 1996, just two years after he joined the Theatre Company as a member of the corps Roberto was promoted to Principal. His brilliant carrier took off immediately following his entry into the company along with invites to the most important theatres in the world. The attention Roberto has received from the Media and his presence as guest star at the greatest international events has made him a unique example of a star and a world-class dancer. For the 2009 Spring Season at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, he performed as a Principal Dancer with the American Ballet Theatre: it was the first time that a male Italian dancer had joined the Company as a Principal. More on his biography at http://www.robertobolle.com/
Video of Roberto Bolle performing in Taormina
Tickets on boxol.it, ticketone.it and ctbox.it
Ticket Office in Taormina: +39 0942.628730
Stalls (Parterre): € 110,00
Gallery: € 88,00
Upper circle (numbered seats): € 66,00
Upper circle (non-numbered seats): € 44,00
July 24 – George Benson
“Inspiration – A Tribute to Nat King Cole”
Taormina Greek Theatre, 9.30pm
July 24 2013, 9.30pm
George Benson is a ten-time GRAMMY Award winning American legendary guitarist.
After four years of touring and developing “An Unforgettable Tribute to Nat King Cole,” the legendary George Benson makes his most inspired album: Inspiration: A Tribute to Nat King Cole. This recording is one of the most meaningful of Benson’s career and is a testament to the spirit of Cole’s timeless body of work. Benson’s heartfelt renditions of some of Cole’s greatest songs with Nelson Riddle arrangements and the 42-piece Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra are complemented by duets with Tony Award winner Idina Menzel and rising star Judith Hill, along with a special collaboration with multi-GRAMMY and Pulitzer Prize-winning trumpeter Wynton Marsalis.
(Source: georgebenson.com)
On the stage with Benson (voice and guitar): Randy Waldman (piano), Michael O’Neill (voice and guitar), Stanley Banks (bass), Thom Hall (keyboard) and Oscar Seaton (drums).
During the concert, new and old hits: “Give Me the Night”, “On Broadway”, “Turn Your Love Around”, “Nothing’s Gonna Change My Love For You”, “The Greatest Love Of All”, “Love X Love”, “Love Ballad”, “You Are The Love Of My Life”, “This Masquerade” and “Breezin’”:
More info soon available!