The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino presents the 2027 Season and the 89th Festival Edition - The Great Theatre of European Music

Twelve opera titles, seven new productions, a new ballet production, twenty major symphonic and choral-symphonic concerts, as well as recitals and extraordinary guest artists.

The 2027 Season of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and the 89th edition of the Festival presents itself as a grand journey through the European musical tradition,
a path spanning three centuries of history and finding its deepest purpose in the masterpieces of musical theatre.

Music Director Daniele Gatti leads three new opera productions
and six symphonic concerts, launching a two-year Bruckner cycle.

Four subscription packages available to the public

Subscription renewals and new subscriptions can be purchased starting from 19 June 2026.

Tickets for individual performances go on sale from 10 July 2026.

Ticket prices remain unchanged.

Florence, 19 June 2026 – The 2027 Season of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and of the Festival, now in its 89th edition, offers twelve opera titles (including two operas in concert form), with seven new productions, a new ballet production, twenty major symphonic and choral-symphonic concerts, numerous vocal and piano recitals, extraordinary guest artists, and a continued focus on younger audiences through dedicated performances. The programme, presented in a new season schedule, takes shape as a broad artistic journey spanning almost three hundred years, from the Baroque and Classical periods, through the mature Classical era, Bel Canto and Romanticism of the nineteenth century, and reaching into the twentieth century. In keeping with the mission and vision of the Maggio, it brings together tradition and contemporaneity, repertoire and exploration, local roots and international openness. In this regard, General Manager Carlo Fuortes commented in his presentation: “The 2027 Season is an invitation to rediscover in musical masterpieces and in the artists who perform them their inexhaustible ability to speak to the present. The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino renews its mission: to be a place where tradition is not simply preserved, but continually rediscovered and brought back to life through the ever-surprising power of music.”

Alongside masterpieces by Verdi, Mozart, Wagner and Strauss, the programme stands out for the breadth of its cultural vision, the quality of its international co-productions and its ability to create a dialogue among the different traditions of European music. Music Director Daniele Gatti, at the heart of the Season, will conduct three new opera productions and six symphonic concerts, while also launching a new complete symphonic cycle dedicated to Bruckner over a two-year period. Among the more than 250 artists involved, from opera companies to creative teams, from vocal soloists in concerts to instrumental performers, there are numerous international stars appearing throughout the Season, some making their important and eagerly awaited debut at the Maggio. The overall programme of operas, ballet, concerts and activities for young audiences amounts to 50 programmes, which will naturally translate into a much larger number of performance evenings when the scheduled repeats are taken into account. This figure is also set to grow with the announcement of further events during the Season, including the eleventh edition of the “Maggio Metropolitano” cycle and, within the Festival, the network of collaborations with the region’s prestigious musical institutions that together form “Maggio Aperto”.

The twelve opera titles scheduled, in chronological order, are: La traviata, by Giuseppe Verdi, conducted by Alessandro Bonato and directed by Stefania Grazioli; Il mondo alla roversa, ossia le donne che comandano, by Baldassarre Galuppi, conducted by Chiara Cattani and directed by Paola Rota (new production); Il trovatore, by Giuseppe Verdi, conducted by Daniele Gatti and directed by Leo Muscato (new production); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by Benjamin Britten, conducted by Ivor Bolton and directed by Deborah Warner (new production); Tristan und Isolde, by Richard Wagner, conducted by Alexander Soddy and directed by Keith Warner (new production); Elektra, by Richard Strauss, conducted by Daniele Gatti and directed by Stéphane Braunschweig (new production); Tosca, by Giacomo Puccini, conducted by Riccardo Frizza, in concert performance; Macbeth, by Giuseppe Verdi, conducted by Nicola Luisotti, in concert performance; Norma, by Vincenzo Bellini, conducted by Stefano Montanari and directed by Andrea De Rosa; Adriana Lecouvreur, by Francesco Cilea, conducted by Francesco Lanzillotta and directed by Arnaud Bernard; Anna Bolena, by Gaetano Donizetti, conducted by Michele Spotti and directed by Andrea Bernard (new production); Don Giovanni, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, conducted by Daniele Gatti and directed by Daniele Menghini (new production).

The ballet scheduled is Swan Lake, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, choreographed by Xander Parish and conducted by James Conlon, in co-production with The New Generation Foundation (new production).

Alongside opera and ballet, the symphonic and concert programme offers a journey of remarkable richness, featuring 20 symphonic concerts, 4 solo recitals and 3 vocal concerts. Throughout 2027, the programme will explore, with leading conductors, outstanding pianists, distinguished soloists and great voices, a musical path which, as with the opera programme, spans approximately three centuries, beginning with George Frideric Handel rooted in the Baroque era, and continuing through Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Cherubini, Schubert, Brahms, Bruckner, Schumann and Dvořák; then Tchaikovsky, Musorgsky, Strauss, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Khachaturian and Hindemith, culminating with Shostakovich in the heart of the twentieth century. Alongside the Orchestra and Chorus of the Maggio, the true protagonists and backbone of the Season, three guest orchestras will appear: the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester and the Orchestra della Toscana. Three different celebrations will also mark the year: the Beethoven bicentenary, the centenary of Rostropovich’s birth and a tribute to the Theatre’s own history through its official dedication to Vittorio Gui.

The conductors appearing on the podium include Daniele Gatti, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, James Conlon, Giulio Prandi, Renaud Capuçon, Ivor Bolton, Alexander Soddy, Diego Ceretta, Pietari Inkinen, Kirill Petrenko, Philippe Jordan, Emmanuel Tjeknavorian, Dmitry Matvienko and George Petrou. Among the soloists are Beatrice Rana, Martha Argerich, Yunchan Lim, Grigory Sokolov, Mao Fujita, Maxim Vengerov, Polina Osetinskaya, Francesco Piemontesi, Ettore Pagano and Andrea Lucchesini. Also appearing as soloists are principal players of the Orchestra del Maggio: Salvatore Quaranta, Marcello Miramonti, Simão Pedro Alcoforado Barreira, Luca Di Manso and Alejandra Rojas. The vocal concerts feature some of the greatest voices on the international opera scene: Pretty Yende with Ludovic Tézier (with Alessandro Praticò at the piano); Kristina Mkhitaryan with Aigul Akhmetshina (with Pavel Nebolsin at the piano); Marina Rebeka with Jonas Kaufmann (conducted by Jochen Rieder). Solo voices featured in the symphonic concerts include Elīna Garanča, Camilla Nylund and Malin Byström, together with Gesua Gallifoco, Margherita Sala, Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani, Alessandro Ravasio, Jiayu Jin, Avery Amereau, Ru Charlesworth and William Thomas. Talents from the Accademia del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino will also take part in the symphonic concerts: Chiara Salerno, Hinano Yorimitsu, Alexandru Tiba, Yukang Zheng, Jukang Zheng, Juan Carlos Villalobos, Juana Shtrepi and Vivien Georgiev.

In 2027, the Maggio will also present a rich programme for families, young people and schools. It opens on 3 January with Walt Disney’s Fantasia, performed live by the Orchestra del Maggio. The productions by Venti Lucenti and Manu Lalli, made possible through the support of Fondazione CR Firenze and involving students and young musicians, will return with The Magical Dream of a Midsummer Night (from 16 March) and Così fan tutti, Love Is a Game (from 27 November). The series C’è Musica e Musica 4.0, now in its fourth edition, will also continue. Designed to bring audiences closer to musical theatre, it offers concerts and performances for young audiences (and not only), and in 2027 will double its programme by extending performances to schools as well. The programme concludes on 12 December with the traditional Christmas Concert by the Children’s Chorus of the Accademia del Maggio.

For the 2027 Season, the Maggio Theatre offers the public a range of four different subscription packages. The first is the comprehensive package, entitled Tutto Maggio (“All Maggio”), which includes the entire programme of performances available on subscription: ten operas, twenty-four concerts and the ballet production, for a total of thirty-five performances, including those presented within the Festival. Alongside this, three more focused subscription packages are available: the first, entitled Opera e Balletto 2027 (“Opera and Ballet 2027”), includes nine operas and the ballet, for a total of ten performances; the second, entitled Opera 2027, includes the nine operas only, for a total of nine performances; the third, entitled Sinfonica 2027, includes the concert programme, comprising twenty-four performances. The Tutto Maggio, Opera e Balletto and Opera subscriptions are available in three series: Series A, opening-night performances; Series B, repeat performances; and Series P, afternoon performances. Ticket prices remain unchanged. Subscription packages will go on sale from 19 June 2026.