Teatro Umberto Giordano - stagione teatrale 2026/2027

The **2026/27 season at Teatro Umberto Giordano in Foggia**, organised by the City of Foggia in partnership with Puglia Culture, features **11 subscription productions and four separately ticketed events**. The season opened on **4 and 5 November** with Francesco Pannofino, Francesco Acquaroli and Paolo Sassanelli in Tom Stoppard’s *Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead* and runs until **Sunday 25 April 2027**.

### November to February

On **19 and 20 November**, *Verba Manent. Canto per Ennio De Giorgi* brings the life and work of the Italian mathematician to the stage. Emilio Solfrizzi and Giorgio Borghetti star in *Falstaff – L’arte di farla franca*, a comedy inspired by Shakespeare and Molière, on **11 and 12 December**. On **16 and 17 January**, Lella Costa takes the lead in Aristophanes’ *Lysistrata*, in which women go on a sex strike to oppose war. February brings *Il sindaco del Rione Sanità* with Geppy Gleijeses and Pino Micol (**13 and 14 February**) and *Cari genitori* with Giulio Scarpati and Amanda Sandrelli (**20 and 21 February**).

### March to April

*Romeo and Juliet*, set against the backdrop of the war in the Balkans, runs on **9 and 10 March**. On **17 and 18 March**, Daniele Russo stars in Stefano Massini’s *Stato contro Nolan (Un posto tranquillo)*, directed by Alessandro Gassmann, which explores the relationship between the media and power. On **1 and 2 April**, Sergio Rubini and the DauniaOrchestra, featuring Giò Sada, pay tribute to Andrea Pazienza through his letters, poems and songs in *Mio, sempre, mio Andrea*. Emma Dante’s *L’angelo del focolare*, a play about domestic violence, follows on **10 and 11 April**. The MM Contemporary Dance Company closes the season on **24 and 25 April** with *Faun / La morte del cigno / Atto bianco*.

### Special events and tickets

The four separately ticketed events are Pinuccio’s *InfernoItalia* (**27 December**), Valerio Lundini & I Vazzanikki’s *Tombolata musicale* (**5 January**), Michela Giraud’s *Fisicamente mi piacciono tutti* (**7 February**) and Tosca’s *FEMINAE a Teatro* (**20 April**). Individual tickets are available through Vivaticket and its sales outlets. The theatre box office opens at **7 pm** on the day before each performance and on the day itself. [Official programme and tickets](https://www.pugliaculture.it/rassegna/foggia-stagione-teatrale-2026-27/).