On Saturday, 20 September 2025, at 8 p.m., maestro Jérémie Rhorer will take to the podium of the Zubin Mehta hall, conducting the Orchestra and Women's Choir of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino for the first symphonic-choral event after the summer break.

The programme includes Claude Debussy's “Trois Nocturnes”, Maurice Ravel's “Shéhérazade”, Claude Debussy's “Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune”, and Igor Stravinskij's “Symphony in three movements”.

The soloist is soprano Elizabeth Llewellyn.

Florence 17 September 2025 – After the summer break, the concert programme of the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino resumes.

On the bill, on Saturday 20 September 2025 at 8 pm in the Sala Zubin Mehta, is the first appointment with compositions by Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel and Igor Stravinskij.

Conducting the Orchestra and Women's Choir of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino will be Jérémie Rhorer, who will also be busy until 23 September in the Sala Grande with performances of Georges Bizet's Les pêcheurs de perles. The choir master of the Maggio is Lorenzo Fratini.

The concert opens with Trois Nocturnes for female choir and orchestra, a composition by Claude Debussy based on poems from Henri de Régnier's “Poèmes anciens et romanesques”. This is followed by one of Maurice Ravel's most famous works, Shéhérazade, a poem for voice and orchestra inspired by Tristan Klingsor's oriental poems. The soloist for this piece is soprano Elizabeth Llewellyn, making her debut on the Maggio stage.

The evening continues with Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, one of Claude Debussy's best-known compositions, inspired by an eclogue by Mallarmé, one of the composer's most esteemed poets - and concludes with Igor Stravinskij's Symphony in three movements, composed between 1942 and 1945 and dedicated to the New York Philharmonic Symphony Society.

Speaking about the concert, maestro Jérémie Rhorer focused on the programme, highlighting how it brings together some of the greatest masterpieces of French music and the influence that this music had on musicians such as Igor Stravinsky: 'The programme for the concert on 20 September is truly fascinating, as it brings together three magnificent examples of French music and a great composer such as Stravinsky. In particular, focusing on Debussy and Ravel, I believe that they are capable – with their music – of using the orchestra to exploit all the musical colours of the world. Still on the subject of this programme, I would also like to emphasise that the conductor must always be at the service of the composer, especially in cases such as these. I always work to understand the musician's intentions, respecting the structure of his work and trying to convey to the audience the very architecture of the music being performed."