Silvia Paoli directs a new production of the double-bill Aleko & Pagliacci for the season opener of the Teatro Massimo in Palermo

Friday, November 21, 2025

Silvia Paoli

Teatro Massimo, Palermo

Aleko / Pagliacci

Silvia Paoli directs a new production of the double-bill Aleko & Pagliacci
for the season opener of the Teatro Massimo in Palermo

Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff

Aleko

Ruggero Leoncavallo

Pagliacci

Palermo, Teatro Massimo, November 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27

Silvia Paoli (director)

Full English biography here

Artist’s official website

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IN EVIDENZA

Luca Cervoni stars in Legrenzi's Il Totila at the Tage Alter Musik in Herne, Luca Quintavalle conducting 13/11/2025 10.37.00
Paola Valentina Molinari stars in Handel's Messiah in Treviso and San Vito al Tagliamento, Filippo Maria Bressan conducting 13/11/2025 10.28.00
Theodora Raftis makes her debut in Pergolesi's L'Olimpiade in a new production at the Teatro Pergolesi in Jesi 13/11/2025 9.05.00
Silvia Paoli directs a new production of the double-bill Aleko & Pagliacci for the season opener of the Teatro Massimo in Palermo 13/11/2025 8.54.00
Alessandro Cadario conducts Beethoven and Schumann with the Orchestra Filarmonica Giuseppe Verdi di Salerno 13/11/2025 8.43.00
Riccardo Bisatti makes his debut at the Opéra National du Capitole in Toulouse conducting Mozart's Don Giovanni, Vincenzo Taormina stars as Leporello 12/11/2025 17.12.00
Julia Vasiljeva returns to the Latvian National Opera starring in the title role of Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur 12/11/2025 16.49.00
Devid Cecconi makes his debut at the Theater Bonn starring in the title role of Verdi's Nabucco 12/11/2025 16.32.00
Jorge Navarro Colorado stars in Salieri's La Grotta di Trofonio with Hofkapelle München in Herne 12/11/2025 16.16.00
Bruno Taddia, Giulia Mazzola and Valerio Morelli star in a new production of Donizetti's Il furioso nell'isola di S. Domingo at the Donizetti Opera Festival in Bergamo 11/11/2025 15.07.00
Rodion Pogossov and Lorenzo Martelli make their debut in Rota's Il cappello di paglia di Firenze at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège 11/11/2025 12.01.00
Matteo Macchioni stars in Rossini's Il Turco in Italia at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona 11/11/2025 11.23.00
Adolfo Corrado makes his debut at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden starring as Alidoro in Rossini's La Cenerentola under the baton of Thomas Hengelbroch 11/11/2025 10.46.00
Hae Kang, Giuseppe Toia, Eugenio Di Lieto and Mattia Ribba star in Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia in the Rete Lirica delle Marche circuit and in Ancona 11/11/2025 10.21.00
Raffaele Abete saves the day jumping-in in Verdi's Requiem with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano in Milan and Pordenone 10/11/2025 15.53.00
Chief conductor Vassilis Christopoulos conducts a new production of Verdi's Rigoletto at the Oper Graz 10/11/2025 12.41.00
Vito Priante stars in a new production of Donizetti's Caterina Cornaro at the Donizetti Opera Festival in Bergamo 10/11/2025 12.25.00
Gezim Myshketa sings Alfio in Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa 07/11/2025 11.55.00
Mikolaj Zalasinski returns to the Kraków Opera singing Amonasro in Aida 06/11/2025 18.31.00
Maria Laura Iacobellis and Roberto Lorenzi star in a new production of I Puritani in Como, Pavia and Cremona 06/11/2025 16.52.00
Valerio Galli saves the day jumping in to conduct Puccini's Tosca at the Staatsoper Hamburg 06/11/2025 16.11.00
Shakèd Bar makes her debut at the Ópera de Oviedo starring as Alcina in Vivaldi's Orlando Furioso 06/11/2025 15.56.00
Krystian Adam returns to the Lithuanian National Opera starring as Don Ottavio in Mozart’s Don Giovanni 06/11/2025 15.27.00
Atalla Ayan returns to the Prague National Theatre starring as Cavaradossi in Puccini's Tosca 06/11/2025 12.22.00
Paolo Arrivabeni saves the day jumping in to conduct Puccini's Tosca at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Carmen Giannattasio stars in the title role 05/11/2025 16.11.00
Adolfo Corrado stars in Rossini's Stabat Mater in Rome with the Arena di Verona Orchestra & Choir 05/11/2025 11.55.00
Sergio Vitale stars as Dulcamara in Donizetti's L'Elisir d'amore in Japan under the baton of Sebastiano Rolli 04/11/2025 15.41.00
Music Director Michele Spotti conducts Verdi’s Falstaff at the Opéra de Marseille, Salome Jicia, Teresa Iervolino and Alberto Robert star in the cast 03/11/2025 17.26.00
Gianluca Capuano makes his debut at the Teatro Regio in Turin conducting Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail 03/11/2025 16.29.00
Monica Bacelli returns to the Opéra National de Paris singing Marcellina in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro 03/11/2025 15.34.00
Francesco Angelico returns to the Göteborg Opera conducting a new production of Weber's Der Freischütz 03/11/2025 10.54.00
Claudia Pavone stars in Puccini's Turandot at the Shaanxi Opera House in Xi'an 31/10/2025 12.04.00
Hae Kang stars in Donizetti's L’Elisir d’amore with the Orchestra Haydn di Bolzano e Trento 31/10/2025 11.16.00
Federica Guida makes her debut at the Sofia Opera and Ballet starring as Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto, Daniel Oren conducting 31/10/2025 10.45.00
Riccardo Bisatti returns to the podium of the Prague Philharmonia conducting a Gala Concert at the Smetana Hall with Xavier Anduaga and Misha Kiria 30/10/2025 18.08.00
Jacopo Spirei directs a new immersive production of Puccini's Tosca in Prato Myrto Papatanasiu and Devid Cecconi star as Tosca and Scarpia and Daniele Terenzi completes the cast 30/10/2025 10.35.00
Paolo Arrivabeni returns to the Deutsche Oper Berlin conducting Verdi's Simon Boccanegra 29/10/2025 16.17.00
William Hernandez stars in the main role of Piovani's Il Labirinto di Creta at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari 29/10/2025 12.25.00
Julia Muzychenko stars in a Gala with the KNN Philharmony Orchestra in Korea for the orchestra's 30th anniversary 28/10/2025 11.53.00
Silvia Paoli’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci on stage at Opéra de Dijon, Débora Waldman conducting 28/10/2025 11.12.00
Carmen Giannattasio returns to the Deutsche Oper Berlin starring in the title role of Puccini's Tosca 27/10/2025 11.02.00
Mikolaj Zalasinski stars as Jago in Verdi's Otello at the National Theatre in Prague 27/10/2025 9.36.00
Andriy Yurkevych conducts Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor in Gent and Antwerp 24/10/2025 11.37.00
Marco Armiliato conducts a refined program in Vienna and in St. Pölten with Aigul Akhmetshina and the Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich 23/10/2025 10.05.00
Ana Victoria Pitts stars in Verdi's Rigoletto at the Seoul Arts Center 22/10/2025 18.25.00
Michael Hofstetter conducts Brahms with the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto in Padua and Rovigo 22/10/2025 16.48.00
Danila Grassi conducts Rossini, Mozart and Mendelssohn with the Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini on tour 22/10/2025 10.18.00
Adolfo Corrado stars in the "Trilogia popolare" singing Sparfucile in Verdi's Rigoletto and Ferrando in Il Trovatore at the Teatro Municipale in Piacenza 20/10/2025 18.15.00
Giuseppe Finzi conducts a new production of Verdi's Macbeth in Pisa, Roberto Scandiuzzi starring as Banco 20/10/2025 10.43.00
Joel Prieto makes his debut in Verdi's Otello singing Cassio in a new production at the Opéra National du Rhin 20/10/2025 10.24.00
Sara Mingardo stars in Castellucci's staged production of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater at the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, under Michele Mariotti 17/10/2025 12.18.00
Francesco Cilluffo conducts an Opera Gala with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra in Wexford and Dublin 16/10/2025 15.23.00
Rotem Nir makes his debut at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari conducting Beethoven, Kodály and De Lillo 16/10/2025 9.50.00
Gezim Myshketa stars in Puccini's Le Villi at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona, Alessandro Cadario conducting 15/10/2025 10.43.00
Ketevan Kemoklidze makes her debut at the Bilbao Opera starring in a new production of Verdi's La Forza del Destino 14/10/2025 9.06.00
Francesco Angelico conducts Verdi, Bottesini and Schumann with the Symphonieorchester Vorarlberg 10/10/2025 10.19.00
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Stefano Montanari conducts Bach, Mozart and Weber with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in Geneva for the 80th United Nations Day 09/10/2025 10.23.00
Riccardo Zanellato stars as Zaccaria in a new production of Verdi's Nabucco in Modena and Reggio Emilia Lorenzo Mazzucchelli completes the cast as Il Gran Sacerdote di Belo 09/10/2025 9.40.00
Benjamin Bayl makes his debut at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari conducting Haydn, Weinberg and Schumann 08/10/2025 18.28.00
Principal guest conductor Francesco Cilluffo conducts Delius' The Magic Fountain at the Wexford Festival Opera 08/10/2025 16.22.00
George Petrou makes his debut at the Wexford Festival Opera conducting and directing a new production of Handel's Deidamia 08/10/2025 16.03.00
Valentina Pernòzzoli makes her debut at the Festival Verdi in Parma starring in Verdi's Requiem 08/10/2025 12.07.00
Ana Maria Labin makes her debut at the Maggio Musicale in Florence starring in Haydn's Die Jahreszeite 08/10/2025 11.42.00
Riccardo Bisatti makes his debut in Donizetti's Don Pasquale at the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania 08/10/2025 11.20.00
Daniel Cohen makes his debut with the English National Opera conducting Britten's Albert Herring 07/10/2025 11.50.00
Marc Piollet returns to the Staatsoper Stuttgart conducting Verdi's Rigoletto 07/10/2025 11.33.00
Stefano Montanari returns to the Bayerische Staatsoper conducting Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro 07/10/2025 11.20.00
Lorenzo Martelli sings Malcolm in a new production of Verdi's Macbeth at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Alexander Soddy conducting and Mario Martone directing 07/10/2025 11.03.00
Salome Jicia and Valentina Pernozzoli make their debut in Verdi's Il Trovatore in a new production at the Teatro delle Muse in Ancona, Andriy Yurkevych conducting 06/10/2025 11.35.00
Devid Cecconi stars in in a new production of Zandonai's Francesca da Rimini for the season opening at the Teatro Regio in Turin 06/10/2025 10.58.00
Lavinia Bini sings Despina in Mozart's Così fan tutte at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège 06/10/2025 10.36.00
Teresa Iervolino stars in a Verdi Gala at the Festival Verdi in Parma 06/10/2025 9.49.00
Stage Door welcomes Federica Vitali to its Roster for General Management 03/10/2025 18.14.00
Musical Director Michele Spotti opens the symphonic season at the Opéra de Marseille conducting Wagner and Stravinsky 03/10/2025 13.02.00
Rodion Pogossov and Matteo Macchioni star in Ravel's L'Heure espagnole with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Pablo Heras-Casado in Paris 03/10/2025 10.56.00
Daniela Cappiello stars in Mozart's Exsultate, jubilate in Milan and Rome 02/10/2025 17.37.00
Raffaele Abete makes his debut at the Teatro Municipal in Santiago de Chile starring in the title role of Massenet's Werther 02/10/2025 14.21.00
Anna Goryachova stars in Stravinsky's Les Noces with the Prague Philharmonic Choir and the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra 01/10/2025 17.29.00
Gianluca Buratto stars as Sparafucile in Verdi's Rigoletto at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Marco Armiliato conducting 01/10/2025 11.11.00
Ketevan Kemoklidze and Nicole Wacker star in a series of Galas at the Theater Bonn 30/09/2025 17.54.00
Renato Dolcini stars as Farnace in Scarlatti's Mitridate Eupatore at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo 30/09/2025 17.31.00
Nicola Alaimo stars in the title role of Verdi's Falstaff in a new production at the Semperoper Dresden, Daniele Gatti conducting and Damiano Michieletto directing 30/09/2025 11.17.00
Bruno Taddia makes his debut as Leporello in Mozart's Don Giovanni at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa 30/09/2025 10.59.00

Luca Cervoni stars in Legrenzi's Il Totila at the Tage Alter Musik in Herne, Luca Quintavalle conducting

13/11/2025 10.37.00

Paola Valentina Molinari stars in Handel's Messiah in Treviso and San Vito al Tagliamento, Filippo Maria Bressan conducting

13/11/2025 10.28.00

Theodora Raftis makes her debut in Pergolesi's L'Olimpiade in a new production at the Teatro Pergolesi in Jesi

13/11/2025 9.05.00

Silvia Paoli directs a new production of the double-bill Aleko & Pagliacci for the season opener of the Teatro Massimo in Palermo

13/11/2025 8.54.00

Alessandro Cadario conducts Beethoven and Schumann with the Orchestra Filarmonica Giuseppe Verdi di Salerno

13/11/2025 8.43.00

Riccardo Bisatti makes his debut at the Opéra National du Capitole in Toulouse conducting Mozart's Don Giovanni, Vincenzo Taormina stars as Leporello

12/11/2025 17.12.00