Florence’s new opera house, the Teatro dell’Opera, will host the 78th edition of the music festival Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.
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Tristan und Isolde returns to the Maggio with Zubin Mehta
Tristan und Isolde returns to the Maggio with Zubin Mehta on the podium for a new production designed by Stefano Poda in the Opening night of the 77° Festival MMF (Maggio Musicale Fiorentino) in Florence, Italy.
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The Italian conductor Claudio Abbado died at 80
Tributes flowed Monday for world-renowned conductor Claudio Abbado, whose long career in such cities as Milan, London, Vienna, Chicago and Berlin was remembered along with his devotion to music and Italian culture.
Read moreMaggio Musicale on the theme of travel
Maggio Musicale Fiorentino helds its 75th edition on the theme of the voyage. Theatre, performers, and audience from Mitteleuropa to the important tour in South America (7-21 August 2012) in this year of the celebrations for Amerigo Vespucci on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the death of the Florentine explorer (1454 – 1512).
Zubin Mehta opens 75th “Maggio Music Festival”
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. After the White Night, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence back in the streets for the arrival of the 75th Festival.
“Maggio” for the victims of the earthquake in Tokyo
After lived in first person during the tour (later suspended) last year, the tragedy of Japan devastated by the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear contamination, the musicians of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino support the victims of the catastrophe.