Lorin Maazel

On July 4, 2009, Maestro Lorin Maazel will launch an annual three-week festival in Castleton, Virginia, devoted  to chamber opera, concerts and recitals, master classes for conductors, with top artists mentoring emerging professional instrumentalists, singers, stage directors and designers. In order to devote more time to the project, Mr. Maazel announces today that he regrets not being able to extend past the 2008/09 se...

The new Decca/Universal Music release of "1984" on DVD was the best-selling new music DVD on the national charts in Italy for the week ending May 12, 2008, entering the Top 10 list at No. 6, ahead of releases by Pink Floyd, Queen and Jethro Tull. This is a remarkable and almost certainly unprecedented sale performance for a contemporary opera recording. See MTV-Italy's Chart here  (archived copy via Google). Maestro M...

Last night in Milan, Italy, a gala dinner was held to preview the premiere of Maestro Maazel's opera at the Teatro alla Scala and to celebrate the international DVD release of the opera on Decca, in a two-disc set recorded during the work's world-premiere performances at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. The DVD features an exclusive 30-minute introduction to the opera by Maestro Maazel. It captures the brilliant production of Rob...

Maestro Maazel is a guest on this evening's new edition of "The Colbert Report," first airing on Comedy Central Monday, March 3, at 11:30pm (EST). The program repeats several times during the day on Tuesday, March 4, and highlights can be seen on the web at http://www.comedycentral.com/colbertreport/index.jhtml .

In response to recent press reports: "I emphatically do not believe that the human-rights record of the United States, given our long tradition of respect for the individual, is comparable to that of any authoritarian regime and, therefore, we are and should be held to a higher standard. The hope expressed in the quotation ascribed to me is that we as a nation will continue to meet the highest moral and ethical standards in our...