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TEATRO AL MASSIMO - Stabile Privato di Palermo

Theatrical Season of Prose and Performing Arts 2022/2023

Afternoon Shows
- Wednesday afternoon at 17.15;
- Thursday afternoon at 17.15.

Evening Shows
- Prime Friday at 21.15;
- Friday evening at 21.15.

At the cost of:
- € 25.00 HALL sector instead of € 40.00/35.00;
- €15.00 GALLERY/STAGES sector instead of €30.00/25.00.

The promotion/reduction cannot be combined with other promotions/reductions in progress.
The reduction will be applied to all your associates who will present themselves at
our box office provided with a card certifying membership in your
Current Association – or as per your indications.

- cral discounts as per the current poster if provided;
- application of the discount if foreseen for a single event.

Mirabile a structure that looks to Europe '

The author of the project of the Theatre "The Masses" (originally FILMTHEATRE Massimo) is Santangelo Giovan Battista (1889-1966), an engineer trained in the school of Ernesto Basile, from which he took care of the job and the good ' essence of taste.

The building is an admirable Maximum concrete structure that shows clearly how the architect had drawn positive theoretical and practical experience had made in Europe in the previous decades. He had to look at buildings of the show and especially to that famous Théâtre des Champs Elysée (1910-1911) of Paris Perret had made with reinforced concrete structures. Technique s'adattava especially the creation of large areas covered and in which flowed the experience of architects such as Guimard and Horta.

When Santangelo conceived the structure of Maximus the Art Nouveau had already solved the problem of reconciling structure and architectural form in the sense that the structure was itself architecture and form. L'Ecole Polytechnique had been married to the Acadérnie des Beaux Arts. This is precisely the casing of the unit reconciled Massimo, composed and firm in texture grid of windows, nell'asciutta profiling of high pilasters, in the solid architectural cage that holds the whole.

Son very little in relation to the building's structural weak strong syntax citations pediments of neo-sixteenth century, the 'Vienna Secession' of the friezes at the height of the pilaster or those typically Basilian shelves modulated on line string course of the first order. Also in the room above the platform is set to a dry game only the warp beams and angular boxes denunciation nostalgia Art Nouveau. The workshop Bevilacqua arranged to provide the decoration infiorettò the smooth preparation of the walls.

The Maximum Cinema was inaugurated in 1924. Next to the big screen is the name of the client: the Blonde. Those same blonde who signed up to other theater spaces and entertainment in Palermo: the theater and kursaal same name. They were the last exponents of the modern bourgeois class that had animated between the nineteenth and the twentieth century Palermo entrepreneurship and opened it to Europe. Maximum film was perhaps the song of the swan. Before, during and after the war as director of the Cinema Massimo had the master Gaetano Romeres musician known and loved in Palermo. In those dramatic years with its interruptions, the room went noting that its role as a "movie theater", ie cinema and variety.

Alternating projections, even several times a day, companies vaudeville. Calamarai Clara, Luisa Ferida, Amedeo Nazzari, Massimo Girotti were the interpreters of such films as "pilot Luciano Serra," "Cavalleria Rusticana," actors who depopulated in cinemas throughout Italy.

Another thing was the variety show, an authentic dish, offered every day in the afternoon and evening at the Cinema Teatro Massimo. The audience could not wait for him to finish the film enjoy the show. The final parade sent the audience into raptures literally - the male of course - that she fled the room dazed, staring blankly, drained of all energy.

Companies magazine or vaudeville who performed the "Maximum" down from all the most diverse of Italy, where they were trained to start their tour, held the bill for a period and then back across the strait and continue their around. They were convinced that, despite the conflict, everything would go smoothly, but unexpectedly the effects of war began to feel, the companies began to falter, or even not come at all, the bombing became increasingly dense and most of Palermo began to flee, was 1943.

With the end of the conflict, life slowly returned to normalize, and "Maximum" resumed its activities, which until the early sixties retained its prerogative movie theater. Then deepened the crisis of companies vaudeville programming became very narrow, until the fateful June 1977, which saw the closure. On November 20, 1992 through the efforts of a group of operators of the show, completely renovated, restored and adapted to modern techniques, with a show of Gigi Proietti inauguration of the "Al Teatro Massimo".

It is currently the largest private reality of Sicily, with its review of the Literature and Performing Arts is home to the largest national and international companies, boasting an audience of about 200,000 viewers per season.

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