Zubin Mehta
Zubin Mehta (born 29 April 1936) is an Indian conductor of Western and Eastern classical music. He is music director emeritus of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) and conductor emeritus of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Mehta was music director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra from 1961 to 1967 and of the Los Angeles Philharmonic from 1962 to 1978, the youngest music director ever for any major North American orchestra. In 1969, he was appointed Music Adviser to the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and in 1981 he became its Music Director for Life. From 1978 to 1991, Mehta was music director of the New York Philharmonic. Since 1985, he has also been chief conductor of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence, Italy.
| Known For | Acting |
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| Most Rating | 0.7115 |
| Birthday | 1936-04-29 |
| Place of Birth | Mumbai, India |
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2015
Oh du mein Österreich
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60 years of the Austrian State Treaty (1955 - 2015). Robert Dornhelm and Gabriele Flossmann search for the current state of the "Austrian soul" in the...
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Oh du mein Österreich
1994
The 3 Tenors in Concert 1994
7/7
It's not opera; it's not a pop concert; it's not Broadway. It's all of these and none of them. Once you accept the fact that this sequel to the origin...
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The 3 Tenors in Concert 1994
2000
Johann Strauss Gala - An Evening of Polka, Waltz, and Operetta
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Johann Strauss Gala - An Evening of Polka, Waltz, and Operetta
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Johann Strauss Gala - An Evening of Polka, Waltz, and Operetta
1990
The Original Three Tenors Concert
6.75/4
The Three Tenors is a name given to the Spanish singers Plácido Domingo and José Carreras and the Italian singer Luciano Pavarotti who sang in concert...
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The Original Three Tenors Concert
1973
The Bolero
6.75/12
The first part of this Academy Award-winning short consists of a behind-the-scenes look at the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra as it prepares to pe...
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The Bolero
1986
On Wings of Fire
8.8/2
Maestro Zubin Mehta introduces the history of Zoroastrianism and prophet Zarathushtra in an epic that covers 3500 years of the Zoroastrians, Parsees o...
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On Wings of Fire
2013
Midori spielt Brahms' Violinkonzert
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Midori spielt Brahms' Violinkonzert
2012
Orchestra of Exiles
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The suspenseful chronicle of how the prodigious Polish violinist Bronislaw Huberman helped save Europe’s premiere Jewish musicians from obliteration b...
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Orchestra of Exiles
2019
Bolero: A Global Hit
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Bolero is played every 15 minutes in the world. This film tries to answer how this famous melody inspired and influenced the world pop-culture? It exp...
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Bolero: A Global Hit
2021
Geburtstagskonzert für Zubin Mehta zum 85. - Aus der Staatsoper Berlin
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Geburtstagskonzert für Zubin Mehta zum 85. - Aus der Staatsoper Berlin
2021
Best Goalkeeper in the World
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Incredible story of Petar Radenkovic. From Belgrade to Munich, from cheap hotel rooms to a Bundesliga superstar. Millions of copies of his song were s...
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Best Goalkeeper in the World
1993
Everything you wanted to know about conductors but were afraid to ask
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Documentary about the state of the conducting world in the 1990s. Broadcast as part of the BBC OMNIBUS strand of documentaries.
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Everything you wanted to know about conductors but were afraid to ask
1998
Zubin Mehta: A World full of Music
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The world famous conductor reminisces about his life in a wide ranging discussion about his varied and successful career.
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Zubin Mehta: A World full of Music
2015
Neujahrskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker 2015
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The 2015 edition of the Vienna Philharmonic New Year's Concert saw Zubin Mehta back on the podium after an eight year absence. Mehta has mellowed a bi...
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Neujahrskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker 2015
1970
The Trout
7/1
Christopher Nupen's record of the concert given by five young musicians in the new Queen Elizabeth Hall at London's South Bank, in 1969. The Trout is...
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The Trout
2010
Wagner: Die Walküre
7/0
It has been a long time since the events of Das Rheingold. Wotan has fathered nine Valkyries, warrior women who bring dead heroes to Valhalla (the cas...
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Wagner: Die Walküre
2009
Wagner: Das Rheingold
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In the words of the prestigious German weekly 'Die Zeit,' the stage production of Wagner's 'Rheingold' and 'Walküre' by La Fura dels Baus 'quite possi...
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Wagner: Das Rheingold
2010
Wagner: Siegfried
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Richard Wagner's dream of a Gesamkuntswerk becomes reality through La Fura dels Baus' visual fantasy and blending of video technology, lighting and pr...
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Wagner: Siegfried
2010
Wagner: Götterdämmerung
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Richard Wagner's dream of a Gesamkuntswerk becomes reality through La Fura dels Baus' visual fantasy and blending of video technology, lighting and pr...
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Wagner: Götterdämmerung
2004
We Want the Light
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The struggles of the world’s Jewish people over the course of several centuries are expressed and explored through the music they inspired in this doc...
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We Want the Light
1994
The Greatest Love and the Greatest Sorrow
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The Greatest Love and the Greatest Sorrow is a film which sets out to bring the viewer closer, not to the details of Schubert's life, but to the spiri...
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The Greatest Love and the Greatest Sorrow
2016
Khatia Buniatishvili and Zubin Mehta: Liszt & Beethoven
7/1
Vivaldi, Mozart, and Beethoven serve up an evening of glittering virtuosity and transcendent melody in this unusual, all-concerto program. Filmed at T...
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Khatia Buniatishvili and Zubin Mehta: Liszt & Beethoven
1990
Joint Concert in Tel Aviv
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Some concerts are important simply as occasions: The “Joint Concert Tel Aviv” was a celebration of reconciliation, a performance shared by the Berlin...
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Joint Concert in Tel Aviv
2017
Dancing Beethoven
8.9/5
A journey through the preparation and hardworking process of ballet dancers and musicians for a unique spectacle in Tokio that Béjart choreographed wi...
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Dancing Beethoven
1986
Tosca
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This live version of Puccini s superbly dramatic opera was recorded in Rome in the exact locations and at the precise times of day as Puccini had writ...
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Tosca
2013
Daniel Barenboim 70th Birthday Concert
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With family and friends present, Daniel Barenboim celebrates his seventieth birthday in the company of Zubin Mehta, and the Staatskapelle Berlin. He s...
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Daniel Barenboim 70th Birthday Concert
2020
Der Rosenkavalier - Staatsoper Berlin
4/1
Aufführung vom 09.02.2020 in derf Staatsoper Berlin. André Heller is staging "Der Rosenkavalier" (his first opera production) at the Berlin State Oper...
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Der Rosenkavalier - Staatsoper Berlin
1996
Abbado: The Silence that Follows the Music
10/1
Shot over a two-year period observing Abbado: a) Rossini, Overture to 'll Barbiere di Siviglia' b) Schubert, Symphony no. 2 B-Major, D. 125 c) Arno...
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Abbado: The Silence that Follows the Music
1977
Zubin Mehta: Los Angeles Philharmonic
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Recorded live at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in 1977, this film showcases the Los Angeles Philharmonic performing Mozart's Bassoon Concerto in B-fla...
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Zubin Mehta: Los Angeles Philharmonic
2007
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra 70th Anniversary Concert
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Recorded live at the Frederic R. Mann Auditorium, Tel Aviv, 26 December 2006
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Israel Philharmonic Orchestra 70th Anniversary Concert
2007
New Year's Concert: 2007 - Vienna Philharmonic
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Metha performs his 4th New Year's Concert with the Vienna Philharmonic. Included are works by Johann Strauss II, Josef Strass, Joseph Hellmesberger, J...
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New Year's Concert: 2007 - Vienna Philharmonic
2002
Zubin Mehta Meets Mitsuko Uchida
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Soloists Mitsuko Uchida on the piano, Zinovi Kaplan on the violin and Dudu Carmel on the oboe interpret the music of Bach ("Concerto for Violin and Ob...
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Zubin Mehta Meets Mitsuko Uchida
2019
Pavarotti
7.277/83
Featuring never-before-seen footage, concert performances and intimate interviews, filmmaker Ron Howard examines the life and career of famed opera te...
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Pavarotti
2017
Pavarotti, Birth of a Pop Star
8/1
Although he is unanimously credited with having democratised opera, making it accessible to the greatest number, focus is rarely put on the strategy h...
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Pavarotti, Birth of a Pop Star
1967
Die Entführung aus dem Serail
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Die Entführung aus dem Serail
2017
Book Hunters
8.667/3
When chaos reigns, while barbaric and fanatical rulers, both ecclesiastical and secular, systematically burn entire libraries, book hunters, secret he...
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Book Hunters
2016
Zubin Mehta: Conductor and Citizen of the World
7/1
Zubin Mehta is one of the most charismatic conductors of our time. A citizen of the world with many facets: Indian culture and Parsi spirituality, Nor...
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Zubin Mehta: Conductor and Citizen of the World
2017
Jacqueline du Pré: A Gift Beyond Words
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A tribute to Jacqueline du Pré to mark the thirtieth anniversary of her death thirty years ago, on 19 October 1987. The film contains archive footage...
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Jacqueline du Pré: A Gift Beyond Words
2019
Boléro, le refrain du monde
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Boléro, le refrain du monde
2022
Vienna Philharmonic The Exclusive Subscription Concert Series - Zubin Mehta & Martha Argerich
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Vienna Philharmonic The Exclusive Subscription Concert Series - Zubin Mehta & Martha Argerich
1995
Europakonzert 1995 from Florence
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Beethoven: Fidelio Overture
Paganini: Violin Concerto No. 1
Blacher: Variations on a Theme by Paganini
Stravinsky: Petrushka
Dvorak: Slavonic Danc...
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Europakonzert 1995 from Florence
2015
Summer Night Concert
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On Christmas Eve viewers of ERT1 have the opportunity to watch at 10 pm, the concert of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, sto Concerto Midsummer Nigh...
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Summer Night Concert
2012
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra: The 75th Anniversary
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Israel Philharmonic Orchestra: The 75th Anniversary
Zubin Mehta - Musik hat keine Grenzen
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Zubin Mehta is one of the great conductors of our time. Born in Bombay in 1936, Mehta has lived in Florence for many years. There, as musical director...
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Zubin Mehta - Musik hat keine Grenzen
2020
Quasthoff sings Mahler (Staatskapelle Dresden, 2010)
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Quasthoff sings Mahler (Staatskapelle Dresden, 2010)
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Quasthoff sings Mahler (Staatskapelle Dresden, 2010)
1994
Wagner: Tannhäuser
9/1
David Alden's production of Wagner's grand romantic opera was recorded at the National Theatre in Munich, with Bayerische Staatsoper, in September 199...
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Wagner: Tannhäuser
2007
The Huberman Festival
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Pinchas Zuckerman, Isaac Stern, Itzhak Perlman, Zubin Mehta, Israel Philharmonic
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The Huberman Festival
2025
Jacqueline du Pré: Genius and Tragedy
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Yo-Yo Ma narrates a documentary about the remarkable cellist Jacqueline du Pré, whose life and career were cut short by multiple sclerosis.
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Jacqueline du Pré: Genius and Tragedy
2003
Christian Ferras (Sibelius, Stravinsky, Franck etc)
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Featuring Sibelius Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D minor, Op 47. Orchestre National de la RTF, Zubin Mehta. Stravinsky Concerto for Violin and...
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Christian Ferras (Sibelius, Stravinsky, Franck etc)
2016
Johannes Brahms: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
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"It is not every day that Brahms sounds so perfect as this," enthused the Kurier newspaper, describing Buchbinder’s performance with the Vienna Philha...
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Johannes Brahms: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
2020
Memorial Concert in honor of Mariss Jansons
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Memorial Concert in honor of Mariss Jansons
1990
New Year's Concert 1990
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New Year's Concert 1990
2021
Inaugurazione Auditorium Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
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Inaugural concert of the new Auditorium of the MMF Theater, conducted by Zubin Mehta, MMF Choir and Orchestra. Program: Giacomo Puccini - Messa di Gl...
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Inaugurazione Auditorium Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
2022
Verdi's Il Trovatore
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Azucena’s eternal vengeance comes back to set the stage ablaze in the timeless drama of Verdi’s Il trovatore, staged specially for the 2022 Maggio Mus...
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Verdi's Il Trovatore
2022
Giacomo Puccini: Turandot
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Giacomo Puccini: Turandot
2017
The Abduction from the Seraglio
9/1
A Mozart opera at La Scala in Milan.
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The Abduction from the Seraglio
2017
Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera
7/1
Recorded at Bayerische Staatsoper on March 3-9, 2016.
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Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera
2015
The Ninth Symphony by Maurice Béjart
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The first-ever recording on film of Maurice Béjart's Ninth Symphony! Fifty years after its premiere, the Tokyo Ballet and Béjart Ballet Lausanne prese...
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The Ninth Symphony by Maurice Béjart
2015
Aida
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Any performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida at La Scala, Milan, is guaranteed to be an experience – but, when it’s a new production, it becomes a major e...
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Aida
2013
Verdi: Falstaff (Salzburger Festspiele)
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This 2013 Salzburg Festival performance of Falstaff, Giuseppe Verdis late masterwork and crowning achievement, features conductor Zubin Mehta and the...
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Verdi: Falstaff (Salzburger Festspiele)
2012
Aida
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Aida
2011
La Forza Del Destino
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The cast is a dream team wrote the Financial Times after the premiere of this production of Verdis La forza del destino at the Wiener Staatsoper. Topp...
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La Forza Del Destino
2008
Turandot
8/1
Internationally acclaimed Chinese film-maker Chen Kaige delivers an opulent staging of the fairy-tale story of Chinese Princess Turandot, who will onl...
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Turandot
2007
La traviata in Paris
8.667/3
La traviata in Paris is a film-opera of Giuseppe Verdi's La traviata filmed live on television and worldwide, directed by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, con...
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La traviata in Paris
2007
La Forza del Destino
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La Forza del Destino
2007
Giuseppe Verdi - Falstaff
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Ruggero Raimondi and Barbara Frittoli star in this 2006 production of the Verdi opera with Zubin Mehta conducting the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. Giu...
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Giuseppe Verdi - Falstaff
2006
Fidelio
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Two years prior to the opening scene, the nobleman Florestan has exposed or attempted to expose certain crimes of the nobleman Pizarro. In revenge, Pi...
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Fidelio
2002
The Abduction from the Seraglio
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Singspiel in three acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The German libretto is by Gottlieb Stephanie, based on Christoph Friedrich Bretzner's Belmont und...
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The Abduction from the Seraglio
2001
Gran Gala di Verdi
10/1
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Gran Gala di Verdi
1999
Puccini: Turandot at the Forbidden City of Beijing
8/3
Turandot at the Forbidden City is a 1998 live production of Puccini's opera Turandot directed by Zhang Yimou. The opera was performed by Giovanna Cas...
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Puccini: Turandot at the Forbidden City of Beijing
1998
Tristan und Isolde
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Peter Konwitschny's new production on the première stage in Munich gives it a new, optimistic interpretation. At the opening of the Munich Opera Festi...
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Tristan und Isolde
1991
Carmen by Georges Bizet
9/1
Bizet's masterwork, Carmen, directed for stage by the Spanish actress Núria Espert.
Royal Opera House in Covent Garden in 1989.
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Carmen by Georges Bizet
1979
Fidelio
8/1
Leonore disguises herself as a man, "Fidelio," to infiltrate a prison and rescue her husband, Florestan, unjustly imprisoned by the tyrant Pizarro. Ga...
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Fidelio
2007
Verdi: La forza del destino
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Verdi: La forza del destino
2003
Uto Ughi - Beethoven
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Uto Ughi recounts Ludwig van Beethoven, performing: Romance in F major for violin and orchestra, Op. 50, with I Filarmonici di Roma; the Kreutzer Sona...
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Uto Ughi - Beethoven
2021
Haydn: Die Schopfung
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Inspired by hearing performances of Handel's oratorios during his visits to London, Haydn composed Die Schöpfung ('The Creation') in 1798. Through a s...
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Haydn: Die Schopfung
2025
Concerto di Pasqua dal Duomo di Orvieto 2025
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The traditional Easter Concert from Orvieto Cathedral. The concert will feature the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, conducted by Maestro Zub...
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Concerto di Pasqua dal Duomo di Orvieto 2025
2023
Concerto di Pasqua dal Duomo di Orvieto 2023
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From Orvieto Cathedral, the traditional Easter Concert conducted by Maestro Zubin Mehta with the Orchestra and Choir of the Teatro del Maggio Musicale...
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Concerto di Pasqua dal Duomo di Orvieto 2023
2021
Concerto di Pasqua dal Duomo di Orvieto 2021
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From Orvieto Cathedral, the Orchestra and Choir of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino conducted by Zubin Mehta, featuring Eva Mei (soprano), Francesca Cuc...
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Concerto di Pasqua dal Duomo di Orvieto 2021
1981
An Evening with Danny Kaye and the New York Philharmonic
9.7/3
A night of classical music,conducted by famous comedian actor Danny Kaye,is something for the whole family to watch. Danny puts his talents to use whi...
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An Evening with Danny Kaye and the New York Philharmonic
2022
Verdi: La forza del destino
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Melodramma in four acts, recorded at 4th of June at Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. Staged by La Fura del Baus, conducted by Zubin Mehta.
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Verdi: La forza del destino
2026
Martha Argerich performs Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A minor - Martha Argerich in Vienna
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As part of ‘Europiano’, ARTE’s day dedicated to piano concertos, Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A minor – one of the most important works of German Roma...
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