Lorin Maazel

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...

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...