Tickets are on sale for Il Volo’s Taormina concert, but they must be going fast!   “Platea Gold Numerata” and “Tribunetta Numerata” area seats are no longer available.  To purchase tickets click:   http://www.ticketone.it/tnl.dll?affiliate=tka&evid=3865328&xtor=EPR-1022-%5btka13%5d-%5bH_IlVolo_1514%5d

Taormina  The Greek-Roman Theatre   “Is it Greek or Roman? This is a question that has always been open to debate among experts and critics. All their disputes would end if they remembered Taormina’s origins as a Greek “Polis” and the fact that each and every ancient Greek town had its own Theatre where they performed tragedies by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides and comedies by Aristophanes, just to name the most famous authors. The Theatre in Taormina is the second-largest in Sicily after the one in Siracusa. All the Romans did later, in accordance with their well-known ostentatious nature, was enlarge the theatre as it was very small. And it apparently took decades to build. It is fifty metres wide, one hundred and twenty metres long and twenty metres high, which means that about 100,000 cubic metres of stone had to be removed. Further evidence that the Theatre is of Greek origin is in the well-cut bricks of Taormina stone (similar to marble) below the scene of the Theatre; these are a typical example of the ancient Greek building technique. The theatre is divided into three main sections: the scene, the orchestra and the cavea. The scene is opposite the cavea and is obviously where the actors used to perform.” To read more click  http://www.taormina.it/

 Greek Theatre by MN 

All Photos in and around Taormina by MFA (Michele) and MN (mlla)