Maggio Musicale Fiorentino: 2025 Season and the 87th Festival del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

MAGGIO MUSICALE FIORENTINO

“THE TRADITION OF THE NEW”

The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino presents artistic programming throughout 2025 and the 87th Maggio Musicale Festival. A total of 10 operas, 25 symphonic and symphonic-choral concerts,
2 ballets, the opera for children, the Sunday cycle of concerts at 11 a.m.
and other non-subscription events.

Among the many names on the bill are the maestros Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Daniele Gatti, Antonio Pappano, Michele Mariotti and Kent Nagano; among the directors those signed by Emma Dante,
Damiano Michieletto, Mario Martone, Romeo Castellucci, Davide Livermore, Wim Wenders; in the concerts and operas, the voices - among many - of Anna Netrebko, Jessica Pratt, Pretty Yende, Olga Peretyatko, Olga Maslova, Vanessa Goikoetxea, Monica Bacelli, Marco Filippo Romano, Ian Bostridge, Amartuvshin Enkhbat,
Luca Salsi, SeokJong Baek, Celso Albelo, Javier Camarena, Iván Ayón Rivas, Michele Pertusi;
among the soloists Grigory Sokolov, Anna Tifu, Alexander Gadjiev.

Five types of season tickets are offered to the public; pre-emption sales begin
beginning Sept. 9. For subscribers of the two larger subscriptions, there is the possibility
of dividing the relative payment into two tranches

Florence 5 September 2024 – “The tradition of the new” this is the motto that sums up in itself and presents the playbill for the entire year 2025 and the 87th edition of the Maggio Musicale Festival, which since its inception, and for long decades, has been the stage - precisely - of the new, demonstrating how much opera, the greatest artistic tradition of our country, manages to intercept contemporary culture and become an expression of it. Since 1933, the year of its founding, the May Festival has programmed new opera compositions and anticipated Italian premieres of musical works by famous foreign composers. Experimenting with unprecedented contaminations between live performance and the visual arts, thanks to collaboration with painters, sculptors and contemporary artists, involved in the creation of sets and costumes, anticipating trends now widespread in major international festivals.

Honoring the great musical tradition and promoting contemporary forms of artistic representation: the roads traveled in the twentieth century continue to be the guidelines for the near future for May's programming, whose 2025 programmatic lines have thus been based on research, surprise, proposals, confirmations, quality and modernity to look forward to the near future. An ambitious program of 10 operatic titles (of which 6 are new stagings) and 25 symphonic and symphonic-choral concerts and two non-subscription occasions in addition to the Sunday morning concerts, the opera for children, living up to the Maggio's international reputation but sustainable is therefore cast in the present, made to respect both the great musical tradition of the theater and the roads traveled by the Maggio throughout the twentieth century.

In following this philosophy, so works of great appeal that are owed to the public, along with rediscoveries but also the opera repertoire with prestigious directions and directing that will be able to provoke stimulation, discussion and surprises and stimulate the curiosity of the public; in addition, two ballets and the wide symphonic proposal of great value, both for the composition of the playbills and for the masters who will take the podium. Among the artists of the highest caliber on the bill we find many beloved and “home-grown” names, but equally numerous are the important and eagerly awaited Florentine debuts among the conductors, directors and many artists of the singing companies.

“After the year of receivership ended in March 2024, the path initiated by the Maggio in its ordinary management proceeds toward a solid future of artistic excellence,” said Superintendent Carlo Fuortes, “In the five months since my arrival, we have worked on the last edition of the Festival, the summer season, perfected the fall programming that will start on September 7, and closed all the 2025 playbill, already putting important points in place for 2026 and 2027. May, and by that I mean all the people who make it up, has reacted concretely and with positive force to the bitter difficulties of the recent past and has reopened itself to the city, the public has shown that it believes in it because it has returned to crowding - literally - the halls of the Theater and the Cavea. The 2025 season that we are presenting now is neither a bet nor a challenge but represents the most sincere and genuine awareness of May's role in telling what it is and what it will be.”

Subscriptions and tickets

May has planned for 2025 and the per Festival, five types of subscriptions; four include operas and ballets and concerts are declined on three shifts A, B and afternoon; the fifth brings together all symphonic programming. Renewals can be made starting Sept. 9; new subscriptions can be taken out starting Sept. 23, 2024. From October 7, the free sale of subscriptions will be active. Those who wish to pay for the “All May 2025” or “Symphonic 2025” subscription in two installments can decide this at the time of subscription, and in that case, they will simultaneously pay the first installment and the second installment by April 1, 2025.

As of September 9, tickets can be purchased for all dates of non-subscription performances of operas and Fantasia live concerts, low visibility seats in the Great Hall for each opera and concert performance, seats in Sector D of the Mehta Hall, and Sunday morning concerts.

INFORMATIONS -→ https://www.maggiofiorentino.com/en/subscriptions-2025-season-and-the-87th-festival-del-maggio