Wednesday 24 November 2021 at 8 pm Maestro Zubin Mehta returns to the podium of the Maggio at the helm of the Choir and Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino for an important symphonic event: the performance of “Die Schöpfung”, Hob: XXI: 2, oratorio for solos, choir and orchestra by Franz Joseph Haydn.

Alongside the maestro Mehta the solo voices of Mandy Fredrich, Bernard Richter, Markus Werba and Veta Pilipenko.

On 25 November the concert will be performed in Arezzo for the inauguration of the Arezzo Fiere Auditorium.

Florence, 22 November 2021 – After the great success of the recently concluded tour, which brought the Maggio artists to some of the most important music halls in Europe, on Wednesday 24 November 2021 at 8 pm the director emeritus of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Zubin Mehta returns to the podium for an important symphonic appointment: Die Schöpfung, Hob: XXI: 2, oratorio for solos, choir and orchestra by Franz Joseph Haydn. Alongside the maestro, the Chorus and the Maggio Orchestra, the voices of Mandy Fredrich, Bernard Richter, Markus Werba and Veta Pilipenko. The maestro of the Maggio Choir is Lorenzo Fratini.

On 25 November in Arezzo, at the invitation of the mayor of Arezzo and president of the Guido d’Arezzo Alessandro Ghinelli Foundation and with the support of the CR Firenze Foundation, the Haydn Oratory directed by Maestro Mehta, will be performed to solemnly inaugurate the Auditorium of Arezzo and will represent the first event in this structure – managed by the Guido d’Arezzo Foundation – which from now on will be dedicated above all to music.

Therefore, the triumphal European tour has just ended – which has seen the Orchestra del Maggio, engaged in these days with the performances of Falstaff, accompanying Zubin Mehta on some of the most important stages in Germany, Austria, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and Switzerland – the maestro Mehta returns to the podium of the Maggio for Die Schöpfung, one of the most famous compositions by the Austrian composer Franz Joseph Haydn. The Creation is the masterpiece of sacred music – based on the texts of Genesis and Psalms and from John Milton’s Paradise Lost – that Haydn composed between 1795 and 1798: great choirs, momentum, powerful and refined music accompany the listener through the various phases of the biblical Creation, from the explosion of the first light to the air of the creation of man. Die Schöpfung is among other things one of the most dear pages to the master Mehta who has dealt with it often and the last two times just recently in May: on 6 October and 10 November 2020. On this last occasion the concert was broadcast in streaming – and is still available on the “ITsArt” website – on the social platforms of the Teatro del Maggio and on the online channels of the Ansa Agency, Anfols and Agis.

Mandy Fredrich, soprano of clear international fame, is the voice of the Archangel Gabriel and Eve. The German soprano returns to the Maggio stage a few months after the concert held, again under the conduction of Maestro Mehta, on 2 July 2021 to May and 3 July in Massa, in Piazza Aranci when the Symphony n. 9 in D minor op. 125 by Ludwig Van Beethoven. The Ninth of the Bonn composer will also be on the poster for the two symphonic concerts that will see Mandy Fredrich among the protagonists on the stage in May: the end-of-year concert, scheduled for 31 December 2021 at 6 pm and the last appointment of the Beethoven Cycle , scheduled for January 4, 2022 at 8 pm. Bernard Richter plays the Archangel Uriel. Tenor with a vast repertoire ranging from Mozart to Mahler, from Strauss to Puccini, he is a constant presence on the stages of the most important theaters in the world, and is making his absolute debut at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. The double role of Adam/Archangel Gabriel is instead entrusted to Markus Werba. Of great international importance, Werba returns to the stage of the Maggio a few months later; he too, together with Mandy Fredrich, was among the protagonists of the concert on 2 July 2021. The bass/baritone will also return to the stage of the Maggio, always alongside Maestro Mehta, at the beginning of the new year, when between the 16th and the January 23, 2022 will perform in Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss jr. Veta Pilipenko – mezzo-soprano trained at the Accademia del Maggio who recently interpreted Cosi fan tutti, l’amore è un gioco, re-adaptation by Manu Lalli of Cosi fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart directed by Pietro Mazzetti – returns to the side of Zubin Mehta in the performance of Haydn’s masterpiece.

Maestro Mehta will return to the podium of the Teatro del Maggio on 21 December 2021 at 6 pm for the concert for the inauguration of the brand new Maggio Auditorium which will take the name of Zubin Mehta Hall, in the presence of the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella and then for the performances by Fidelio, the opera by Ludwig van Beethoven.

“Die Schöpfung”, the oratory by Haydn at the Teatro del Maggio on November 24 and at Arezzo on November 25