The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino announces the programming from September 2022 to April 2023.

Overall, from the resumption of activity in September and up to the 85th edition of the April 2023 Festival, 10 operas plus two works dedicated to schools and children and an intense concert activity with 25 symphonic concerts on site
The Maggio Autumn Festival dedicated to Verdi and the Maggio Carnival Festival dedicated to Faust and Goethe kick off in October and February

Florence 13 June 2022 – The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino announces the programming from September 2022 to April 2023 during which the announced “satellites” Festival, ribs of the historical one, the “Great Festival” which in 2023 will touch the its 85th edition. The Maggio Autumn Festival starts on 29 September and will be dedicated to Giuseppe Verdi with three mature works of the “Swan from Busseto” Il Trovatore, Ernani and Don Carlo in the Italian version in four acts and the Maggio Carnival Festival which will be launched on January 13 and which will be dedicated to the Myth of Faust and Goethe. Overall, from the resumption in September after the summer break (however dedicated to tour concerts in Siena, Ravello, Rimini, Macerata, Forte dei Marmi, Volterra), and up to the 85th edition of the Festival, Maggio puts on 10 operas plus two works dedicated to children and young people, families and schools, and an intense concert activity with 25 symphonic concerts in the two halls, the Grande and the Zubin Mehta. These are the lyrical titles in chronological sequence: Il barbiere di Siviglia by Gioachino Rossini in September, Il Trovatore by Giuseppe Verdi in late September and October, Alcina by Georg Frederich Händel (in the staging of the Salzburger Pfingstfestpiele) with the Orchestra Les Musiciens du Prince – Monaco in October, Ernani in November and Don Carlo by Giuseppe Verdi in late December and early January 2023 (on the stage of the Great Hall finally technologically completed), La Finta Semplice by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in January at the Goldoni Theater, Doktor Faust by Ferruccio Busoni in February, La traviata by Giuseppe Verdi in February, The Rake’s Progress by Igor Stravinsky in March and to conclude Carmen by George Bizet at the end of March and until the middle of April. Two, as mentioned, the works dedicated to children, young people, families and schools: Faust in co-production with Venti Lucenti with the Italian Youth Orchestra, in November and early December at the Goldoni Theater, and L’italiana in Algeri by Gioachino Rossini with the Italian Youth Orchestra in late March and early April in the Mehta Hall, for a total of nine new productions, two revivals and the staging of the Salzburg Whitsun Festival.

Great balance in the commitment of the two artistic cornerstones on which the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino rests, the director emeritus for life Zubin Mehta and the principal conductor Daniele Gatti: both on the podium more than 20 times each for both the works – 3 titles each : Il barbiere di Siviglia, Don Carlo, The Rake’s Progress for Gatti and Il Trovatore, La traviata and Carmen for Mehta – and for the concerts.

Alongside them a sequence of names of the highest directorial profile engaged both on the opera and concert side, Herbert Blomstedt, Theodor Guschlbauer, Charles Dutoit, Andrés Orozco Estrada, James Conlon, Christoph Eschenbach, sir Marc Elder, Diego Fasolis, Marc Albrecht, Ingo Metzmacher Gianluca Capuano. Among them we note the debut at Maggio of a very refined interpreter of the Mozart repertoire, Dame Jane Glover for a symphonic concert in November. Two guest orchestras on the symphonic front are the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester conducted by Herbert Blomstedt and the Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Charles Dutoit. Among the solo artists in the various concerts Andrea Lucchesinion the piano, Luca Benucci on the horn, Marco Salvadori on the oboe, Maurizio Pollini on the piano, Martha Argerich on the piano, Alejandra Rojas Garcia on the bassoon, Yefim Bronfman on the piano, Rudolf Buchbinder on the piano; Professors Benucci, Salvadori and Professor Rojas Garcia are the first parts of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Orchestra, joined by Professor Salvatore Quaranta, shoulder of the Orchestra that will be involved in Antonio Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, soon announced. Their involvement as soloists testifies to the excellent level of the Maggio orchestra and enhances its commitment. The solo voices in the different concerts will be those of Mandy Fredrich, Marie-Claude Chappuis, Maximilian Schmitt, Tareq Nazmi, Eleonora Filipponi, Lenneke Ruiten, Lucia Cirillo, Juan Francisco Gatell, Georg Nigl, Jessica Pratt, Christiane Karg, Michèle Losier.

The directors who will sign the different opera productions, always in chronological order, are Damiano Michieletto (Il barbiere di Siviglia and Alcina), Cesare Lievi (Il Trovatore), Leo Muscato (Ernani), Manu Lalli(Faust for children), Roberto Andò (Don Carlo), Claudia Blersch (La finta Semplice), Davide Livermore(Doktor Faust and La traviata), Frederic Wake Walker (The Rake’s Progress), Grischa Asagaroff (L’Italiana in Algeri for children) and Piero Faggioni (Carmen). In the ten operas, the posters depict many of the most prestigious and famous names in the world opera scene alongside very successful artists established in the most important international theaters and emerging young people such as the talents of the Academy of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. To name a few in the various posters, Vasilisa Berzhanskaya, Nicola Alaimo, Fabio Capitanucci, Carmen Buendia, Ruzil Gatin, Evgeny Stavinsky (Il barbiere di Siviglia); Amartushvin Enkhbat, Maria José Siri, Ekaterina Semenchuck, Fabio Sartori, Riccardo Fassi (in Il Trovatore); Cecilia Bartoli, Carlo Vistoli, Lucia Martìn-Cartòn, Kristina Hammarstroem, Petr Nekoranec, Riccardo Novaro(in Alcina); Francesco Meli, Roberto Frontali, Vitalij Kowalijow, (in Ernani); Mikhail Petrenko, Francesco Meli, Alexander Vinogradov, Benedetta Torre (in Don Carlo), Benedetta Torre and Luca Bernard (in La finta semplice); Thomas Hampson, Wilhelm Schwinghammer, Olga Bezsmertna (in Doktor Faust); Nadine Sierra, Francesco Meli, Plàcido Domingo, Caterina Piva, Caterina Meldolesi, Francesco Samuele Venuti, Emanuele Cordaro, (in La traviata); Sara Blanch, Matthew Swensen, Vito Priante, Marie-Claude Chappuis, Adriana Di Paola, Christian Collia (in The Rake’s Progress), Clémentine Margaine, Francesco Meli, Mattia Olivieri, Valentina Nafornita (in Carmen).

The Maggio continues to travel during the 22/23 season: Grosseto, Torre del Lago, Massa, Parma, Arezzo represent the first confirmed stops.

Orchestra of the Teatro del Maggio.

The Choir and the Children’s Choir of the Teatro del Maggio are directed by Lorenzo Fratini.