Maestro Zubin Mehta, at the head of the Maggio Orchestra, leaves for a prestigious and long tour that brings the Maggio back to China after last year's highly successful tour.

Eight concerts in total from 19 to 31 July: they will touch six cities including the capital Beijing.

‘With the orchestra at the top of its form, we present ourselves to the international public with enthusiasm, passion and responsibility, strong in our tradition and projected towards a future of dialogue and openness,’ comments Superintendent Carlo Fuortes

Florence, 18 July 2025 - Just over two weeks after the last performance of Aida that closed the 87th Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Festival, and after the symphony concert in Montecatini on 12 July that was enthusiastically received, conductor emeritus Zubin Mehta, at the head of the Maggio Orchestra, embarks on his return to China a year after his last tour in 2024 and for the sixth time in its history.

‘We are deeply proud to bring the musical excellence of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Orchestra to China, under the baton of a legendary maestro like Zubin Mehta,’ says Superintendent Carlo Fuortes, who will be present at the tour. "This tour represents not only a great artistic moment, but also a cultural bridge between Italy and China, in the name of the music that unites peoples, consolidating an almost thirty-year artistic bond that began with the historic Turandot in 1998. With the orchestra at the top of its form, we present ourselves to the international public with enthusiasm, passion and responsibility, strong in our tradition and projected towards a future of dialogue and openness".

This important tour of the Orchestra del Maggio in China thus begins after last year's five prestigious symphony concerts in two stages. The first of the eight dates is on 19 July at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing and the last concert is scheduled for 31 July at the Grand Theatre in Hangzhou.

On the Orchestra's music stands in the various stages: the overtures and dances from Giuseppe Verdi's operas (I vespri siciliani, La forza del destino and Aida), Symphony No. 5 in E minor op. 64 by Pyotr Il'ič Tchaikovsky (Beijing - 19/07 - Wuhan, Chongqin, Changsa, Hunan, Shanghai, Hangzhou); for the evening of 20 July in Beijing, however, the concert will be dedicated to Ludwig van Beethoven (on the programme the Leonore No. 3 and the C minor Concerto Op. 37 with the young and talented soloist AN Tianxu) and Johannes Brahms (with Symphony No. 1).