Lorin Maazel

Maestro Lorin Maazel has renewed his contract as Music Director of the Palau de les Arts (Valencia, Spain's three-year old, state-of-the-art opera house) for two seasons. During the 2009-10 and 2010-11 seasons, he will conduct the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana for 24 performances, which will include two new opera productions, several repertory productions and symphonic concerts. The Palau's Intendant, Helga Schmi...

Maestro Maazel first conducted London's Philharmonia Orchestra fifty years ago, in Lisbon, with a program that included Stravinsky’s Song of the Nightingale and Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra. Early this April, as part of a special series celebrating the 50th anniversary of his first performances with the Philharmonia Orchestra, Maestro Maazel lead the orchestra in a string of symphonic concerts througho...