Lorin Maazel

Maestro Maazel and the New York Philharmonic opened the 2007/08 season with a full program of Dvořák, including his Carnival Overture, Cello Concerto with cello virtuoso Yo-Yo Ma, and Sympony No. 7. On the morning of opening night, rehearsals took place in front of an audience of the public. Free tickets were ditributed at 8:00 am, to the sounds of the Principal Brass Quintet.  The concert was telecast nationaly...

The Châteauville Foundation, a not-for-profit organization established ten years ago at Castleton Farms, Maestro Maazel's estate in Rappahannock County, Virigina, has recently launched its new website to coincide with the start of the 2007/08 season. Visitors can peruse the site for information on current and past seasons, the Foundation's upcoming Tenth Anniversary Gala (a extraordinary chamber concert featuring 12 Str...

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...