Events in Taormina and surroundings: detail
From January 01 2008 to November 16 2008
JUNE 2008 : LIST OF EVENTS IN TAORMINA AND SICILY
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THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE AND UPDATED
LIST OF EVENTS
ABOUT TAORMINA AND SURROUNDINGS
Although we regularly double-check our different information sources, we cannot guarantee for all events listed.
Last updated by the Villa Schuler Team on June 21, 2008
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EXHIBITONS
until June 8
L'Abbazzia S. Martino - San Martino delle Scale (near Monreale, Palermo)
Le visitatrici. Otto artiste in abbazia. The Visitors. 8 artists in the monastery. 8 italian and international women artists. Daniela Balsamo, Esther Burger, Mariella Busi De Logu, Stefania Cucciardi, Claire Fontana, Elena Ilardi, Anne-Clémence De Grolée, Marjolein Wortmann. Paintings, drawings, collages and sculptures. The monastery also hosts the ABADIR, Accademia di belli Arti e del Restauro, the Academy of fine arts and restoration. The public can also have a look at the library, where will be presented two folios of a medieval herbarium, restored by the ABADIR.
Info: www.abbaziadisanmartino.it
until July 15
Palazzo dei Normanni - Palermo
Max Ernst nella collezione Würth. Works of the famous german Dadaist and Surrealist Max Ernst, collected by the Würth family.
Opening hours: 8.30 to 17.00 h, Sundays 8.30 to 12.30 h
until June 30
Galleria Civica Luigi Sturzo - Piazza Municipio, Caltagirone
Caltagirone in Primavera 2008. Biennale della Ceramica 2007/2008. Extra edition. Exhibition of ceramics
Info: www.comune.caltagirone.ct.it
until August 31
Ruffartgalery - ViaVittorio Emanuele, Patti (Messina)
Alfio Mongelli H2O, Scetches, fotos and models of the projecting of the sculture H2O, which will be the only italian sculpture amongst 20 that will be installed in the olympic parc of Beijing.
until December 31
Piccolo Teatro dei Pupi - Via della Giudecca, Siracusa
Museum of traditional sicilian marionettes and performances of puppet plays
by the company of the Vaccaro-Mauceri family. In May there will be performances on May 15, and 17 (21.30 h), May 18 (18.30 h) and May 20 and 22 (21.30 h). Museum opening hours: daily except Sunday from 10.30 to 13.00 h and from 16.00 to 19.00 h. Full schedule of the 2008 performances via webpage of the theatre.
Info: www.pupari.com
EVENTS
JUNE
until June 1
Teatro Tezzano - Catania
Morir di fama (dying of hunger). Theatre play, one girl show with Evelyn Famà.
Info: www.evelynfama.com
until June 1
via Alcide de Gasperi - San Filippo del Mela (Messina)
V Infiorata di Olivarella. Feast of flowers dedicated to the Sicilian poet Bartolo Cataffi from Bacellona Pozzo di Grotto, organised by the association Olivarella Citta Futura. The organisation committee has invited several schools of art to design and make images of flowers and petals on the pavement. Some other events will accompany the feast, a fashion show, theatre performances and concerts.
Info: ocf.altervista.org
June 1
Theatro Biondo - Palermo
Ecercizi di stile. The new generation of actors, directed by Zunberto Cantone, with exercises and samples of what they have learned.
Info: www.teatrobiondo.it
June 1 (18.30 h)
Teatro Massimo - Palermo
Petite messe solennelle. Mass for choir and solist singers by Gioacchino Rossini, with Andrea Rost (soprano), Stefanie Iranyi (mezzosoprano), John Osborn (Tenor) and Alex Esposito (bass), conducted by Miguel Fabián Martínez.
Info: www.teatromassimo.it
June 1
Teatro Greco - Siracusa
XLIV Ciclo di Spettacoli Classici. Agamemnon, tragedy by Aeschylus.
Info: www.indafondazione.org/stagione/2008/
June 1 (21.15 h)
Teatro Greco - Tindari (Messina)
Giulio Cesare (Julius Caesar), tragedy by William Shakespear. Julius Caesar is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It portrays the conspiracy against the Roman dictator Julius Caesar, his assassination and its aftermath. Production of the company Argot, directed by Maurizio Panici, under others with Eduardo Sivavo.
Info: www.teatrodeiduemari.net
June 1 and 2
Bosco di Malabotta - Montalbano Elicona (Messina)
Montalbano Elicona e il Bosco di Malbotta. A week end in natur (which already started at May 31). The little village of Montalbano Elicona is considered as one of the 130 most beuatiful villages in Italy. Not only because of its romantic historic center, but also because of its surroundings, under others the Rocche dell'Argimusco, the oaks, beeches and wild flowers of the Bosco di Malbotta, the cubburi, the quarrystone cottages of the shepherds
Info: www.naturasicula.it
June 2
Campo Fiera e Parco Urbano - Belpasso (Catania)
Gara di Aquiloni. Kite competition for professionals and amateurs.
Info: www.prolocobelpasso.it
June 2
Teatro Greco - Siracusa
XLIV Ciclo di Spettacoli Classici. The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides, tragedies by Aeschylus. Info: www.indafondazione.org/stagione/2008/
June 2 (21.15 h)
Teatro Greco - Tindari (Messina)
Edipo (Oedipus) tregedy by Seneca, performed by the company Argot, directed by Nucci Ladogna, under others with Flavio Bucci
Info: www.teatrodeiduemari.net
June 3
Centro - Malfa (Messina)
Festa del Cappero. Feast and degustation of local dishes and products made from goats
June 3 (21.00)
Aula Magna, Facoltà di Architettura - Siracusa
Musica in Primavera 2008. Quartetto d'Archi performing musics by Haydn and Dvorak
June 3 (21.15 h)
Teatro Greco - Tindari (Messina)
Giulio Cesare (Julius Caesar), tragedy by William Shakespear. Julius Caesar is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It portrays the conspiracy against the Roman dictator Julius Caesar, his assassination and its aftermath. Production of the company Argot, directed by Maurizio Panici, under others with Eduardo Sivavo.
Info: www.teatrodeiduemari.net
June 4
Teatro Greco Siracusa
XLIV Ciclo di Spettacoli Classici. The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides, tragedies by Aeschylus. Part two and three of the Oresteia (458 BC). The bloody story of the family of Agamemnon, King of Mycenae.
Info: www.indafondazione.org/stagione/2008/
June 4 (21.15 h)
Teatro Greco - Tindari (Messina)
Edipo (Oedipus) tregedy by Seneca, performed by the company Argot, directed by Nucci Ladogna, under others with Flavio Bucci
Info: www.teatrodeiduemari.net
June 5
Teatro Greco - Siracusa
XLIV Ciclo di Spettacoli Classici. Agamemnon, tragedy by Aeschylus.
Part one of the Oresteia (458 BC).
Info: www.indafondazione.org/stagione/2008/
June 5 (21.00 h)
Teatro Ambasciatori - Catania
Musica in Primavera 2008. Orchestra Giovanile dell'Istituto Bellini, conducted by
Giuseppe Romeo, playing musics by Schubert, Beethoven, Bellini and Mozart
June 5 (21.15 h)
Teatro Greco - Tindari (Messina)
Giulio Cesare (Julius Caesar), tragedy by William Shakespear. Julius Caesar is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It portrays the conspiracy against the Roman dictator Julius Caesar, his assassination and its aftermath. Production of the company Argot, directed by Maurizio Panici, under others with Eduardo Sivavo.
Info: www.teatrodeiduemari.net
June 6
Teatro Greco - Siracusa
XLIV Ciclo di Spettacoli Classici. The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides, tragedies by Aeschylus. Info: www.indafondazione.org/stagione/2008/
June 6 (21.00 h)
Monastero dei Benedettini - Catania
Musica in Primavera 2008. Percussio Mundi, performing musics by Cirone, Piazzola and Charpentier
June 6 (21.30 h)
Teatro Antico - Tindari
Nel nome del potere, by Michele Di Martino. An evening about the political theatre and the charcter of the tyrant, seen from the classic tragedy to contemporary plays. Directed by Maurizio Panici, with Edoardo Siravo, Leandro Amato, Maurizio Panici.
Info: www.teatrodeiduemari.net
June 6 to 15
Teatro Massimo Bellini - Catania
Caucasus Passion. Dance performance with "The Nalmes State Academic Dance Company", choreography by Mukhamed Kulov
Info: www.teatromassimobellini.it
June 7 (20.00 h)
Villa Patti - Serra, Caltagirone
Caltagirone in Primavera 2008. Opening of a project of culture, art and theatre in the mansions of the Gattopardi familiy.
Info: www.comune.caltagirone.ct.it
June 7
Teatro Greco - Siracusa
XLIV Ciclo di Spettacoli Classici. Agamemnon, tragedy by Aeschylus.
In the season 2008 the greek theatre of Siracusa will show all three tragedies of the Oresteia (458 BC). Info: www.indafondazione.org/stagione/2008/
June 7 (21.15 h)
Teatro Greco - Tindari (Messina)
Giulio Cesare (Julius Caesar), tragedy by William Shakespear. Julius Caesar is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It portrays the conspiracy against the Roman dictator Julius Caesar, his assassination and its aftermath. Production of the company Argot, directed by Maurizio Panici, under others with Eduardo Sivavo.
Info: www.teatrodeiduemari.net
June 8 (10.00 to 18.00 h)
Palazzetto dello Sport - Viale Autonomia, Caltagirone
Caltagirone in Primavera 2008. Festa della Scherma Siciliana. Feast ot the art of fencing. Accademia d'Armi A. Greco di Caltagirone
Info: www.comune.caltagirone.ct.it
June 8
Teatro Greco - Siracusa
XLIV Ciclo di Spettacoli Classici. The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides, tragedies by Aeschylus.
Info: www.indafondazione.org/stagione/2008/
June 8 (21.15 h)
Teatro Greco - Tindari (Messina)
Edipo (Oedipus) tregedy by Seneca, performed by the company Argot, directed by Nucci Ladogna, under others with Flavio Bucci
Info: www.teatrodeiduemari.net
June 10
Teatro Greco - Siracusa
XLIV Ciclo di Spettacoli Classici. The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides, tragedies by Aeschylus.
Info: www.indafondazione.org/stagione/2008/
June 10 (21.00 h)
Aula Magna, Facoltà di Ingegneria - Catania
Musica in Primavera 2008. Orchestra da Camera San Giogo, performing musics by Bach
June 11
Teatro Greco - Siracusa
XLIV Ciclo di Spettacoli Classici. Agamemnon, tragedy by Aeschylus.
Info: www.indafondazione.org/stagione/2008/
June 11 (21.00 h)
Monastero dei Benedettini - Catania
Musica in Primavera 2008. Ensemble di Clarinetti Calamus, playing musics by Serra, Gervaise, Haydn, Bach, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Puccini and Gershwin
June 12
Teatro Greco - Siracusa
XLIV Ciclo di Spettacoli Classici. The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides, tragedies by Aeschylus.
Info: www.indafondazione.org/stagione/2008/
June 12
Centro - Pollara (Messina)
Festa di Dan Onofrio. Feast of the patron saint of the village
June 13
Teatro Greco - Siracusa
XLIV Ciclo di Spettacoli Classici. Agamemnon, tragedy by Aeschylus.
Part one of the Oresteia (458 BC), the bloody story of the family of Agamemnon, King of Mycenae.
Info: www.indafondazione.org/stagione/2008/
June 13 (21.00 h)
Monastero dei Benedettini - Catania
Musica in Primavera 2008. Italian Brass Band, conducted by Salvatore Distefano, playing musics by Ceulemans, Sparke, Mancini, Kander-Ebb, Williams and Conti-Sullivan
June 13 and 14 (20.30 h)
Cortile Palazzo Minoriti - Catania
Scupa! La Sicilia raccontata dalle carte da gioco. Sicily by playing cards. Recitation of texts by Anonimo, Giuseppe Bonaviri, Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, Andrea Camilleri, Ottavio Cappellani, Carmen Consoli, Emilio Isgrò, Angelo Scandurra, Gabriella Vergari and Stefano Vilardo. An evening with Gugliemo Ferro and Angelo Scandurra.
Info: www.etnafest.it
June 13 to 15
Nicolosi (Catania)
Etna Outdoor Events 2008. Three days dedicated to Mt. Etna and all outdoor activities to be done, such as horse trekking, mountain bike tours, climbing. A weekend programm for 130,00 Euros per Person including accommodation in a B&B double room, a 6 hours excursion with cable car and guide to the summit of Mt. Etna, a trekking tour inside the Parco dell'Etna, The Etna card which grants reductions in restaurants and shops in Nicolosi. Other activities can be booked at reduced prices.
Info: www.comune.nicolosi.ct-egov.it/Eventi
June 13 to 15
Centro - San Vito Lo Capo (Trapani)
Festa Patrono San Vito Martire. Feast of San Vito, the patron saint of the town. Local products, concerts, fashion shows. The most important part is the arrival of the Saint by night at the beaches of San Vito, coming by boat, illuminated by torches, followed by a procession and fireworks.
June 13 to 19
Teatro Massimo - Palermo
Manon Lescaut. Opera by Giacomo Puccini, in occasion to the composer's 250th birthday. Conducted by Giampaolo Bisanti, directed by Pierfrancesco Maestrini, scene design by Fiorella Mariani, costume design by David Walker.
Info: www.teatromassimo.it
June 14 (18.30 h)
Palazzo Municipale - Caltagirone
Caltagirone in Primavera 2008. Lecture on the exhibition: Invincibile Speranza. Benedetto XVI e i Giovani, fotographies by Walter Ricardo Franconi on pope Benedict XVI. Opening of the exhibition in the Galery Corte Capitaniale at 19.30 h.
Info: www.comune.caltagirone.ct.it
June 14
Teatro Greco - Siracusa
XLIV Ciclo di Spettacoli Classici. The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides, tragedies by Aeschylus. Part two and three of the Oresteia (458 BC).
Info: www.indafondazione.org/stagione/2008/
June 15 to 22
Teatro Antico and Palazzo dei Congressi - Taormina
54th Taormina FilmFest 2008
The categories and highlights will be under others:
Mediterranea: The Mediterranean competition, a selection of 7 films produced in the Mediterranean region will compete for the Golden Tauro for Best Film. The award will be presented at the Greek Theater on June 21. Other prizes include best director, best performance and best technical work. This year Turkish cinema will take centerstage at the Taormina Film Festival. Director Deborah Young has assembled a seven-title Mediterranean competition including Turkish first-timer Seyfi Teoman's Summer Book, which unspooled in Berlin; the world preem of Egyptian helmer Ibrahim El Batout's sophomore feature Eye of the Sun; and Slovenian thesp-helmer Branko Djuric's Tractor, Love and RocknRoll, set in the Communist-era 1960s.
Beyond the Mediterranean: A selection of 7 films produced in countries outside the Mediterranean region will be screened. These films will compete for the Audience Award and a cash prize. Beyond the Mediterranean section will include Spanish helmer Gerardo Olivares 14 Kilometros, about young Africans trying to cross the border from Morocco into Spain; Mike Figgis Love Live Long, which unspooled in Tribeca; and Irish helmer Mary McGuckian's test-tube baby satire Inconceivable, toplining Andie MacDowell.
Grand cinema: Toby Dammit, the middle episode of Spirits of the Dead directed by Federico Fellini and restored by director of photography Giuseppe Rotunno, will be one of the highlights of the Taormina Film Fest. Among the more mainstream pics unspooling in Taormina's spectacular ancient Greek theater are a freshly restored print of The Godfather, partly shot near Taormina; David Mamet's martial arts pic Red Belt; and Keanu Reeves cop actioner Street Kings.
Jury: Turkish-born Italian helmer Ferzan Ozpetek will head the jury, which also includes Sarajevo Film Festival director Mirsad Purivatra and Portuguese producer Paulo Branco.
Master Class: New Yorker film crtitic Anthony Lane, U.S. helmer Paul Schrader and Turkish/Teutonic helmer Fatih Akin will hold master classes.
Info: www.taorminafilmfest.it
June 15
Teatro Greco - Siracusa
XLIV Ciclo di Spettacoli Classici. Agamemnon, tragedy by Aeschylus.
Info: www.indafondazione.org/stagione/2008/
June 17
Teatro Greco - Siracusa
XLIV Ciclo di Spettacoli Classici. Agamemnon, tragedy by Aeschylus.
Info: www.indafondazione.org/stagione/2008/
June 17 (21.00 h)
Aula Magna, Scuola Superiore d'Eccellenza - Catania
Musica in Primavera 2008. Quartetto Goltermann. Musics by Goltermann, Grutzmacher, Fitzenhagen, Klengel, Sollima, Part and Piazzola
June 18
Teatro Greco - Siracusa
XLIV Ciclo di Spettacoli Classici. The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides, tragedies by Aeschylus
Info: www.indafondazione.org/stagione/2008/
June 19
Teatro Greco - Siracusa
XLIV Ciclo di Spettacoli Classici. Agamemnon, tragedy by Aeschylus.
Info: www.indafondazione.org/stagione/2008/
June 20
Teatro Greco - Siracusa
XLIV Ciclo di Spettacoli Classici. The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides, tragedies by Aeschylus
Info: www.indafondazione.org/stagione/2008/
June 20 (21.00 h)
Teatro Antico - Tindari
Laboratorio teatrale con giovani artisti. Theatre performance of a workshop with young actors. Directed by Stefano Mollica
Info: www.teatrodeiduemari.net
June 21
Teatro Greco - Siracusa
XLIV Ciclo di Spettacoli Classici. Agamemnon, tragedy by Aeschylus.
Info: www.indafondazione.org/stagione/2008/
June 21 (21.00 h)
Cortile principale Palazzo Biscari - Catania
Musica in Primavera 2008. Laboratorio di Arte scenica. Il duello comico. Musical comedy
by Giovanni Paisiello
June 21 (21.00 h)
Teatro Antico - Tindari
Edipo stanco (Oedipus is just tired) An evening with the comedian Marco Grossi.
Info: www.teatrodeiduemari.net
June 21 and 22 (21.00 h)
Palazzetto dello Sport - Viale Autonomia, Caltagirone
Caltagirone in Primavera 2008. Saggio di danza. Dance performance in latin-american and standard dances. Associazione Sportiva Symphony Dancing
Info: www.comune.caltagirone.ct.it
June 22
Teatro Greco - Siracusa
XLIV Ciclo di Spettacoli Classici. The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides, tragedies by Aeschylus. Info: www.indafondazione.org/stagione/2008/
June 23 to 25
Centro - Aci Trezza (Catania)
Festa di San Giovanni. Patron Saint?s Feast with processions and masses, accompanied by a culinary feast dedicated to fish.
June 21 (21.30 h)
Piazza Garibaldi ? Naro (Agrigento)
Tinturia in concert
Info: www.tinturia.it
June 26 (until July 26)
Centro - Acireale (Catania)
Feste Patronali di S. Venera. Beginning of the religious feast dedicated to the patron Saint of the town with fireworks, processions, brass bands. July 21 will be the first of two big processions with the precious silver stature of the Saint. The final procession on Saturday, July 26 (21.00 h) will be the most important one, starting from the cathedral, passing through the historical center and before returning to the cathedral there will be a polifonical choir concert and a firework at the Piazza Duomo.
June 28 (21.00 h)
Teatro Antico - Tindari
Troppu trafficu ppi nenti. The siciilian version of Shakespeare's comedy Much Ado About Nothing by Andrea Camilleri and Giuseppe Di Pasquale.
Info: www.teatrodeiduemari.net
June 28 (21.15 h)
Teatro di Verdura - Palermo
Festival di Verdura. Nick the Nightfly & the Montecarlo Nights Orchestra, with Sarah Jane Morris and the guitarrist Dominic Miller. A new programm with the participation of the Orchestra and Coro del Teatro Massimo. American titles of the 1950ies, brasilian rythms and the sucesses of the Beatles.
Info: www.teatromassimo.it
June 29
Campo sportivo - Santa Lucia del Mela (Messina)
Sagra del Vino Memertino DOC. The Mamertino Doc is a wine known already from the roman times. This local culinari feast will be done with the participation of the restaurants and bakeries of the village.
Info: www.sagradelmamertinodoc.it
June 29 (5.00 h)
Teatro Antico - Tindari
Alba (Sunrise). Excerpt of a text by Alma D'Addario, with Edoardo Siravo.
Info: www.teatrodeiduemari.net
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LAST UPDATE June 21, 2008
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