Classical Festival

87th Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Festival | 2025

Placed under the motto "The tradition of the new", the 2025 program presents three opera titles, a dance show with Roberto Bolle and ten concerts

Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Foundation

From 13 April to 1 July '25

In Florence
Tuscany

Info

Theater of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Piazza Vittorio Gui, 1
Florence
Tuscany

+390552779309
cortesia@maggiofiorentino.com
https://www.maggiofiorentino.com

Ticket from 10€ to 150€.

Characteristics

Genre: Symphonic, Dance, Opera
Context: city of art
Upcoming events: 14

Superintendent Carlo Fuortes

L' 87th Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Festival presents three works, including two new installations, Salome of Richard Strauss is The Young Lord (The Young Lord) of Hans Werner Henze, work proposed for the first time in Italy in the original language; third title, Aida of Giuseppe Verdi.
Also on the programme is a special event dedicated to the dance, with Roberto Bolle protagonist in “Caravaggio” of Mauro Bigonzetti;
the symphonic programming is rich and prestigious, with ten concerts directed by illustrious wands, from Zubin Mehta to Daniele Gatti is Antonio Pappano.
Programming motto, “The tradition of the new” – the Maggio Festival, in fact, since its foundation in 1933, has been a stage for the new, presenting new lyrical compositions, anticipating the Italian premiere of musical works by famous foreign composers, and experimenting with new contaminations between live entertainment and the visual arts: demonstrating, in short, how opera is able to intercept contemporary culture and Der junge Lord (The Young Lord) by Hans Werner Henze, becomes an expression of it.

The program

87th FESTIVAL OF THE MAGGIO MUSICALE FLORENTINO
April 13 – July 1, 2025
THE WORKS
Salome by Richard Strauss
April 13 – 27, 2025
The 87th Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Festival opens on April 13 (three subsequent performances: April 16, 23, 27), with the staging of Salome by Richard Strauss, which marks two important debuts at the Maggio: that of Alexander Soddy on the podium and, at the direction, of Emma Dante. Alexander Soddy maestro who is also entrusted with a concert in the Festival and a further opera in the season, the Macbeth, has achieved success in London, Paris, Vienna, New York, is part of that group of artists who are clearly on the rise abroad and that the Maggio dutifully decides to propose to its audience. Emma Dante finally arrives in our theater and promises "a very imaginative and visionary production just as this opera is visionary". Among the main interpreters Nikolai Schukoff, Anna Maria Chiuri, Allison Oakes, Iain Paterson, Eric Fennell.
Der Junge Lord by Hans Werner Henze
May 25 – 31, 2025
On May 25th, with repeats on May 28th and 31st, The Young Lord (The Young Lord) brilliant and satirical work by Hans Werner Henze from 1964 directed by Markus Stenz and directed by Daniel Menghini. This opera perfectly embodies the mission of the Maggio, that is to program and propose titles that are not found, or only rarely, in the program of other theaters. In this specific case it will be the first time that this opera has been staged in the original language in Italy after the first and only time it was scheduled in Rome in 1965 in Italian. Among the performers Levent Bakirci, Matteo Falcier, Caterina Dellaere, Andreas Mattersberger, Marina Comparato, Eleonora Bellocci, Antonio Mandrillo.
Aida by Giuseppe Verdi
June 19 – July 1, 2025
The Verdi Festival closes Aida (the first one is on June 19th and the repeats on July 25th, 28th and 1st) one of the most famous titles of the great repertoire, conducted by Zubin Mehta, staged however with the strong and harsh direction of Damiano Michieletto (in the production of the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich) which sets it not in Egypt but in a bombed-out gymnasium serving as a shelter for war refugees. The main performers are Olga Maslova, SeokJong Baek, Agnieszka Rehlis, Amartuvshin Enkhbat/Leon Kim, Simon Lim, Manuel Fuentes.
THE DANCE
Caravaggio | Roberto Bolle
May 9 – 11, 2025
At the Maggio Festival there will also be a special event with Roberto Bolle, who returns to the Florentine stage with “Caravaggio”, a show making its debut in Italy, created by the choreographer Mauro Bigonzetti: an emotional journey into the restless and brilliant soul of an immortal artist.
The CONCERTS
The concerts scheduled in the Festival start in a solemn manner, in the Sala Grande, with Zubin Mehta the April 18th for the Requiem Mass by Giuseppe Verdi; soloists Roberta Mantegna, Agnieszka Rehlis, SeokJong Baek, Michele Pertusi; the Choir of the Maggio is directed by Lorenzo Fratini.
The April 26, Alexander Soddy busy in the meantime with the direction of the work Salome, conducts a concert with music by Richard Strauss; horn soloist Alessio Dainese;
the May 3 Diego Ceretta directs the War Requiem by Benjamin Britten; in the pit of the Great Hall, in addition to theOrchestra of the Maggio me too'Orchestra of Tuscany; the solo voices are by Elizaveta Shuvalova, Ian Bostridge, Dietrich Henschel; the Choir of the Maggio is directed by Lorenzo Fratini, on Children's Choir of the Accademia del Maggio is directed by Sarah Matteucci.
L'May 8th, in Mehta Hall, Michele Mariotti who returns to the Maggio after about 10 years, for a choral symphony concert he conducts compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Igor Stravinskij and Francis Poulenc, solo voice the soprano Emőke Baráth; the Choir of the Maggio is directed by Lorenzo Fratini.
L'May 11th come back Daniele Gatti who will conduct a choral symphony concert, featuring music by Stravinsky and Prokofiev;
the May 15th, in Mehta Hall, Timur Zangiev accompanied on the piano by Alexander Gadjiev will conduct compositions by Sergei Prokofiev and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, contralto Ksenia Dudnikova;
the May 30 Cornelius Meister, with the mezzo-soprano Monica Bacelli, will conduct music by Carl Maria von Weber, Luciano Berio, Robert Schumann; on June 5 Thomas Guggeis he will conduct music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Sergei Prokofiev.
The June 10 in the Great Hall the important hospitality to the London Symphony Orchestra which will be directed by Sir Antonio Pappano with a program of music by Richard Strauss, Giacomo Puccini and Hector Berlioz.
The happy collaboration with the Friends of Music Florence takes shape again this year with the non-subscription piano concert of Grigory Sokolov, on June 16 with a program yet to be defined.
The director emeritus for life of the Maggio Zubin Mehta, while busy with the performances of Aida, the June 21st conducts the last concert of the Festival's symphonic programme, with music by Ludwig van Beethoven and Richard Strauss; on the violin Amira Abouzahra.
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(Below, the Teatro del Maggio, photo credit ©Michele Monasta – Maggio Musicale Fiorentino)

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