Lorin Maazel

Maestro Maazel returned to Avery Fisher Hall last week after a fourteen-city tour with the New York Philharmonic in Europe. Concerts were given in Warsaw, Budapest, Vienna, Frankfurt, Manheim, Cologne, Paris and Luxembourg. Energetic as ever, Mo. Maazel found time on a day off to fly to Rome, give a special concert for the European Union of Beethoven's Ninth with the Symphonica Toscanini, and fly back to Vienna the next day to rejo...

The National Association of Music Critics in Italy has bestowed its top prize, the Premio Abbiati, on Lorin Maazel as Conductor of the Year for 2006. In announcing the awards, the panel cited Maestro Maazel's musical intelligence and insightful interpretations, noting his special affinity for Puccini (as evidenced by the production of Tosca he conduted at La Scala in April 2006), and the many other important concerts he led l...

In April 2007, in Castleton, Virginia, Lorin Maazel launched a residency program for young artists with a new, fully-staged production of Benjamin Britten's chamber opera The Rape of Lucretia . Presented by the Châteauville Foundation, which was established ten years ago by Lorin and Dietlinde Maazel and based at the state-of-the-art Theatre House on their 550-acre farm, the production was an exceptional success in...