Zubin Mehta opens 75th “Maggio Music Festival”

Zubin Mehta (Maggio musicale)FLORENCE, ITALY – After the White Night, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence back in the streets for the arrival of the 75th Festival: the protagonist of this extraordinary prologue will be the Band of the Carabinieri Corps commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Massimo Martinelli.

Thursday, May 3 at 5:00 pm from Piazza Signoria to Piazza della Repubblica. Then, at 7:00 pm, it will perform a concert with free admission to the new Opera House.

After this night, Zubin Mehta inaugurated the 75th edition of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino proposing one of the masterpieces of the musical culture of Central Europe, the Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal, is missing from Florence since 1989.

Cooperate with the illustrious director, making his debut in Der Rosenkavalier, the director Eike Gramss, well known to the public for one lucky Florentine Abduction from the Seraglio Mozart, production designer and costume designer Catherine Hans Schavernoch Voeffray, also engaged in the Rat, all artists of international renown, such as precious Straussian score requires.

The exhibition recreates the atmosphere of Vienna of Maria Theresa through eighteenth-century architecture that change of perspective due to highly effective games of mirrors, which recall the Baroque style of the “wonder”.


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