The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Orchestra plays Morricone

"A Fistful of Dollars"

Film with live soundtrack

On Thursday, July 23rd 2026, at 9pm, the Cavea of ​​the Teatro del Maggio will become a large open-air cinema with an event dedicated to Sergio Leone's “A Fistful of Dollars”, accompanied by a live performance of Ennio Morricone's famous soundtrack, performed by the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Pietro Mianiti.

The maestro of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Chorus is Lorenzo Fratini.

The screening is sponsored by the Ennio Morricone Foundation.

The production is by Unidis Jolly Film Srl, with artistic direction by Fabio Venturi.

During the show, the Cavea bar will be open from 7pm.

Thanks to Sammontana for the ice creams provided to the audience.

Florence, July 21st, 2026 – The Teatro del Maggio's 2026 Summer Season is enriched with an event celebrating one of the most celebrated and influential artistic collaborations in the cinema history: director Sergio Leone and composer Ennio Morricone. On Thursday, July 23rd at 9pm, the Cavea hosts "A Fistful of Dollars," the movie with live soundtrack. This experience brings to life the full expressive power of Leone's masterpiece, thanks to a live performance of Morricone's score by the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Pietro Mianiti. The chorus master is Lorenzo Fratini.

With this event, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino renews its commitment to fostering dialogue between different artistic languages, offering an evening that unites the great symphonic tradition with the seventh art and offers audiences the opportunity to rediscover one of the most influential films in the history of cinema through a live performance of one of the most celebrated soundtracks of all time.

Released in September 1964, "A Fistful of Dollars," the first installment of the celebrated "Dollars Trilogy" directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood (complemented by "For a Few Dollars More" and "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"), marked a turning point in the history of the Western, introducing a more intimate narrative dimension, in which nihilism and pessimism coexist alongside a touch of irony and violence.

Considered by many critics an undeclared remake of Akira Kurosawa's “Yojimbo”, the film successfully reworked the narrative model, creating a profoundly original work that would usher in the era of the “spaghetti western” and influence international cinema in the years that followed.

Under Sergio Leone, the Western took on a new, more essential and disenchanted language, populated by morally ambiguous characters and characterized by a depiction of violence far removed from the canons of the classic Western. Clint Eastwood's performance was also crucial, a performance that was still relatively unknown to the general public and destined to become one of the great icons of world cinema.

A key contributor to the film's success was Ennio Morricone's soundtrack, which has entered the collective imagination for its originality and its unprecedented fusion of orchestral sounds, whistles, electric guitars, whips, bells, and folk songs. This score not only accompanies the images, but becomes an integral part of the narrative, helping to define the characters and the dramatic tension of the story.

The story is set in the fictional town of San Miguel, on the border between Mexico and the United States, where two powerful rival families vie for control of the arms and alcohol trade. The arrival of the mysterious gunslinger Joe, (the famous “Man with No Name”) played by Eastwood, triggers a series of deceptions, alliances and vendettas that will end up upsetting the balance of the town, alternating moments of tension, irony and spectacularity.