Festival Maggio Musicale Fiorentino 2023
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Festival Maggio Musicale Fiorentino 2023
The program of the 85th Maggio Musicale Fiorentino was presented at the Teatro del Maggio, which will start on April 22 and run until July 8, 2023. The program consists of three operas and eight concerts (plus an autumn coda that will complete the Mozart/Da Ponte Maestro Meta cycle).
The first title of the Festival will be Mozart's Don Giovanni which will debut on April 30 (with performances until May 12), conducted by maestro Zubin Mehta and presented in a new production signed by Sir David Pountney (with sets by Leslie Travers); on stage will be engaged among others Luca Micheletti in the title role, Markus Werba (Leporello), Jessica Pratt (Donn Anna) and Anastasia Bartoli (Donna Elvira).
The second title of the Festival (on stage from 20 May to 3 June) will see the recovery of Verdi's Othello (staged in 2020 only for the web) in the staging by Valerio Binasco, the musical part will always be entrusted to the baton of Zubin Mehta, while among the protagonists we can listen to Fabio Sartori, Luca Salsi and Anastasia Bartoli.
However, the highlight of the Festival (which will be staged between 22 June and 7 July) will be the new production of Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg signed by Damiano Michieletto which already promises to be an extremely complex and fascinating reading, while on the podium of the Maggio will be the musical director of the Festival Daniele Gatti, at the head of a cast with among others Michael Volle (Hans Sachs), Klaus Florian Vogt (Walther von Stolzing), Markus Werba (Beckmesser) and Kristen MacKinnon (Eva).
The Festival program is completed with a series of eight concerts that will see great masters of the caliber of Daniele Gatti, Zubin Mehta, Myung-Whun Chung, Andrés Orozco-Estrada and Philippe Jordan alternate on the podium with programs ranging from Beethoven's Symphonies to the Symphonie fantastique by Berlioz, passing through Hindemith, Strauss, Mahler and Dvořák.
About the Festival Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino is an annual Italian arts festival in Florence, including a notable opera festival, under the auspices of the Opera di Firenze. The festival occurs between late April into June annually, typically with four operas. The festival has been held in Florence since 1933. It is the oldest European opera festival (according to he is even older than the festival in Salzburg). Above all, because of its history: a Season of symphonic concerts resulted in a Festival which,in turn, resulted in the founding of a music theatre company.
In 1928 Florence created an Orchestra, a seemingly natural consequence of the growing international dimension of a city that for centuries had been devoted, like few others, to art and culture. It was a courageously elitist decision for the time and resulted, in 1933, in the first Festival of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, which followed the European tradition of presenting theatre and music together. It is now the oldest festival in Europe after Salzburg and Bayreuth.
It is for its prestigious history through the last decades that still today the Maggio, with its top-notch offering of opera and concerts, continues to be synonymous with innovation, purpose, and an interdisciplinary vision of music and performance, concerts and exhibition, and opera and seminars, which complements and perfectly embodies the vibrant culture of the unique and stunning city of Florence - a city of art, monuments and museums, and a city enriched with an incomparable, magnificent past.
For decades and over the years the greatest names in music performance have appeared at the Maggio and have established long and productive relations with the city in an ever-increasing connection between the Festival itself and all the other activities that take place throughout the year in the historic theatres of Florence as well as - and mostly - in the new venue of the Teatro del Maggio one of the most interesting European Opera Houses created and designed to offer the most innovative technical equipment and a modern, efficient and stylish auditorium with excellent acoustics to its audience.
Major chapters in the history of the Orchestra, the Chorus and the Teatro del Maggio Fiorentino, on the last 50 years are the musical directions of Riccardo Muti (1969 – 1981), and Zubin Mehta (1985 - 2017), who is now the Honorary conductor for life and, from last May 2018 of Fabio Luisi. And today, as in the past, it’s not a question of a mere parade of famous persons; each one of them has helped the Maggio audience and, by extension, all music lovers to gain greater knowledge and understanding.
