Natale a Taormina – Christmas in Taormina 2021-22

Exhibitions

until January 9, 2022
Museo di Arte e Teadizioni Popolari – Taormina
Venite Adoremus. Exhibition curated by Franz Riccobono. Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday 10.00 to 19.00 h

until January 16, 2022
Ex Chiesa del Carmine and Palazzo Duchi di Santo Stefano – Taormina
Dialoghi Siciliani. Exhibition curated by Matteo Calbiati. Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday 10.00 to 19.00 h

until March 8, 2022
Sala Giovanni di Giovanni, Ex Chiesa Sant’Agostino – Taormina
Avvicinati Amici, c’è Busacca. Exhibition curated by Francesca Busacca and Mauro Geraci. Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday 10.00 to 19.00 h

Events 

December 7 (19.30 h)
Baislica Cattedrale – Taormina
Lo Splendore del Barocco. Opening concert of a series of concerts dedicated to baroque music. The ensemble Antiqua Baroque Orchestra playing on historic instruments performs musics by Stefano Socrani, Tomaso Albonioni, Alessandro Marcell, Antonio Vivaldi and Arcangelo Corelli. Free entrance only with green pass, limited number of seats according to Corona rules.
Info: bellini-festival.org

December 9 (17.00 h)
Palazzo Duchi di Santo Stefano – Taomina
Literary conversation (in Italian) on the novel „L’orizzonte degli eventi” by Alessandro Notarstefano, journalist, writer and director of the daily newspaper Gazetta del Sud. After „Adelaide” (1987) and „Betrayed by the pencil” (1994), at a distance of years comes the third novel „L’orizzonte degli eventi”, published this year by Nardini. Free entrance with Green Pass only, limited seats in accordance to Covid rules. An event organized by the city of Taormina in collaboration with taobuk.

December 10 (17.00 h)
Palazzo Duchi di Santo Stefano – Taomina
Literary conversation (in Italian) on the book Il Mistero e L’Inganno.  Pensare, narrare e creare in Sicilia  by Mario Bolognari, sociologist, author and mayor of the city of Taormina, published by Navarra. Free entrance with Green Pass only, limited seats in accordance to Covid rules. An event organized by the city of Taormina in collaboration with taobuk

December 11 (19.30 h)
Chiesa San Giuseppe – Taormina
Lo Splendore del Barocco. Concert dedicated to baroque music with the ensemble Harmonia Urbis & Baroque Orchestra and the soprano Gonca Doyan performing musics and arias Tomaso Albonioni, Caccini, Cesti, Scarlatti, Caldara, Vivaldi, Händel, Marcello, Pergolesi and Gluck. Free entrance only with green pass, limited number of seats according to Corona rules.
Info: bellini-festival.org

December 15 (17.00 h)
Palazzo Duchi di Santo Stefano – Taormina
Literary conversation (in Italian) on the book L’Ora. Edizione straordinaria – Il romanzo di un giornale raccontato dai suoi cronisti” (The Hour. Extraordinary Edition – The novel of a newspaper narrated by its reporters) a volume published by the Region of Sicily to pay homage to the historic daily newspaper of Palermo. Free entrance with Green Pass only, limited seats in accordance to Covid rules. An event organized by the city of Taormina in collaboration with taobuk.

December 22 (19.30)
Basilica Cattedrale – Taormina
Lo Splendore del Barocco. Final concert of the series of concerts dedicated to baroque music, with the international star soprano Bing Bing Wang and the Rome Baroque Orchestra, performing musics by Tomaso Albonioni and famous Christmas arias. Free entrance only with green pass, limited number of seats according to Corona rules.
Info: bellini-festival.org

December 18 (18.00 h)
Chiesa di Santa Caterina – Taormina
Natale a Taormina. Christmas Concert
Kiwanis Club Tauromenium Valle Alcantara

December 19 (11.00 h)
Via Mozart – Trappitello
Natale a Taormina. Animazione per bambini

December 21 (17.30 h)
Palazzo dei Congressi – Taormina
Natale a Taormina. Christmas Dance. Public dancing lesson with the students of „Danza Taormina“

December 23 (15.00 h)
Piazza IX Aprile – Taormina
Natale a Taormina. Un Giorno con Babbo Natale. A day with Santa Claus. With the volonteers of the civil defense.

December 26 (15.00 h)
Piazza Mazzini – Mazzeo
Natale a Taormina. Babbo Natale incontra i bambini. Santa Claus meets the children.

December 26 (19.00 h)
Palazzo dei Congressi – Taormina
Natale a Taormina. Gran Concerto di Natale. Christmas Concert with the Piccolo Coro Città di Taormina, conducted by Ivan Lo Giudice.

December 26 (19.45 h)
Basilica Cattedrale – Taormina
Natale a Taormina. J. David Bratton & Virginia Union Gospel Choir in concert.

December 26, 27 and 28 (16.00 – 18.15 – 20.45 h)
Casa del Cinema – Taormina
Natale al Cinema. Madres Paralelas by Pedro Almodovar.

December 26, 2021 to January 9, 2022
Chiesa di Santa Venera – Trappitello
Presepe Vivente. Living Nativity. The Parish of the Sacred Heart of Jesus of Trappitello every year organizes a suggestive Living Nativity, realized in the immense garden of the ancient Church of Santa Venera, more than 150 actors animate the village of Bethlehem, re-proposing the works of the past. You can admire who really works the soap, who the brooms with the rods, the basket maker, the baker, the butcher, the shoemaker, the innkeeper, the Arab seller and more; there are many animals, horses, sheep, goats, rabbits and boars. In a secluded place is located the cave of the Nativity, where the baby Jesus is welcomed and warmed by his parents, Mary and Joseph and an ox and a donkey. On January 6th you can also assist to the arrival of the three Magi on horseback. The ancient church of Santa Venera is located on a small hill in Trappitello. Tradition has it that in this place Santa Venera preached her faith and baptized those who converted to Christianity.
The XVII edition of the Living Nativity in Trappitello takes place on 26 (17.00 to 20.30 h), 27, 29 and 30 December 2021 (18.00 to 20.30 h) and 1 January 2022 (17.00 to 20.30 h), 2, 5, 6 and 8 (18.00 to 20.30 h) and 9 January 2022 (16.00 to 19.00 h). Admission free only with reinforced Green Pass, limited number of visitors.
More Info: Facebook page Living Nativity of Trappitello, Phone 0942.50210 – 339.8320324 – 349.4289961 or e-mail presepetrappitello@gmail.com

December 27 (17.00 h)
Chiesa S. Maria Goretti – Mazzeo
Natale a Taormina. Tombolata per bambini.

December 28 (18.00 h)
Chiesa Santa Caterina – Taormina
Natale a Taormina. Natale e dintorni, Christmas concert with the Laura Lo Re Trio.

December 28 (19.30 h)
Palazzo dei Congressi – Taormina
Natale a Taormina. Concerto di Natale. Christmas concert with the Orchestra Mandolinistica Giovinale di Taormina, conducted by Leonardo D’Agostino.

December 29 (11.00 h)
Via Mozart – Trappitello
Natale a Taormina. Animazione per bambini.

December 29 (18.00 h)
Piazza Mazzini – Mazzeo
Natale a Taormina. Tombolata con degustatione di dolci.

December 29 and 30 (16.00 – 18.15 – 20.45 h)
Casa del Cinema – Taormina
Natale al Cinema. È stata la mano di Dio by Paolo Sorrentino.

December 30 (15.00 h)
Parco Trevelyan – Taormina
Natale a Taormina. Animazione per Bambini.

December 30 (20.30 h)
Palazzo dei Congressi – Taormina
Natale a Taormina. Natale in Casa Cupiello. Theatreplay by Eduardo De Filippo, witzh Enrico Guarneri. Directed by Antonello Capodici.

December 31 (11.30 h)
Teatro Antico – Taormina
Natale a Taormina. The Ladies. Wish you merry Christmas. Concert with the Brass Group of Palermo.

January 1 (19.00 h)
Palazzo dei Congressi – Taormina
Natale a Taormina. Concerto di Capodanno. New Years Concert with the Orchestra a plettro Città di Taormina., conducted by Antonino Pellitteri.

January 2 (10.00 h)
Piazza Pablo Pino – Mazzeo
Natale a Taormina. Animazione per Bambini

January 2 (11.30 h)
Teatro Antico – Taormina
Natale a Taormina. Benvenuto 2022. Welcome to the year of 2022 with the Orchestra a plettro Città di Taormina., conducted by Antonino Pellitteri.

January 2, 3, 4 and 5 (16.30 – 18.30 – 20.30 h)
Casa del Cinema – Taormina
Natale al Cinema. Io sono Babbo Natale by Paolo Sorrentino.

January 4 (18.00 h)
Piazza Mazzini – Mazzeo
Natale a Taormina. Tombolata con degustazione di Crespelle.

Janaury 4 (19.30 h)
Basilica Cattedrale – Taormina
Natale a Taormina. Concert with the Coro del Teatro Massimo Vincenzo Bellini di Catania.

Janauary 5 (11.00 h)
Parco Trevelyan – Taormina
Natale a Taormina. Il Bosco incantato. The enchanted forest.

January 6 (10.30 h)
Piazza Mazzini – Mazzeo
Natale a Taormina. La Befana incontra i bambini.

January 6 (11.00 h and 12.00 h)
Parco Trevelyan – Taormina
Natale a Taormina. Il Bosco incantato. The enchanted forest.

January 6 (16.30 – 18.30 – 20.45 h)
Casa del Cinema – Taormina
Natale al Cinema. Turi Ferro. L’ultimo Prospero. Documentary on the Sicilian actor by Daniele Gonciruk

January 7, 8 and 9 (16.30 – 18.30 – 20.30 h)
Casa del Cinema – Taormina
Natale al Cinema. Cry Macho – Ritorno a Casa by Clint Eastwood.

Last update: 18.12.2021