Lorin Maazel

Maestro Maazel spends the next two weeks touring with Symphonica Toscanini, first in South America with visits to Brazil and Argentina, followed by ten days of travel in Japan before he returns to New York to open the season with the New York Philharmonic. In Rio de Janeiro and Sau Paolo, the orchestra will perform Aida in concert, which they played recently on a floating stage on Lake Maggiore in Northern Italy. Other concert progra...

This week Maestro Maazel spends nearly half his time traveling back and forth between Europe and the States and the other half rehearsing and performing with both the New York Philharmonic and the Symphonica Toscanini.  He began the week off in Florence with rehearsals of Aida with Symphonica Toscanini, in preparation for concerts scheduled in Italy and in South America. On Wednesday, July 25, the orchestra travels to t...

Beginning next year, Maestro Maazel's Symphonica Toscanini will be in permanent residence at the Teatro degli Arcimboldi in a northeastern suburb of Milan. This theater was built as a temporary home for Teatro alla Scala while the latter was being expanded upon. The house seats over two thousand and has at least twenty concerts with Symphonica Toscanini scheduled for next season. Maestro Maazel was recently appointed music director...

Maestro Maazel spends the week of June 25 at La Scala in Milan, Italy, preparing the orchestra and cast for a new production of La Traviata , which will have its premiere on July 3. Mo. Maazel most recently conducted the opera for the reopening of Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Italy, where the opera was first performed in 1853. The week closes with an outdoor concert of Verdi's Requiem with the Symphonica Toscanini, to be held...

This week Maestro Maazel conducts the New York Philharmonic in its final subscription week of the 2006/2007 season. The orchestra will give four concerts, June 20 through 23, performing selected songs by Richard Strauss followed by Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 7, also known as "Song of the Night". Soprano Deborah Voigt, highly acclaimed for her Strauss interpretations, is the soloist. As the Philharmonic welcomes th...