Over a hundred years ago the notes of Giuseppe Verdi’s Falstaff opened the performances of the Teatro Massimo in Palermo. Symbol of the city and of the whole of Sicily, the theater is equipped with perfect acoustics, which built the myth, and is still the third largest opera house in Europe after the Paris Opera and the Vienna Staatsoper. 

Its importance is undoubtedly linked to the perfect natural acoustics of the great hall, which allows you to listen from every position of the theater dialogues, music and singing, that the cultural offer that characterizes it. We discover the history and curiosities of this theatre conceived before the unification of Italy.