The program that enriches and completes the 87th edition of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Festival

Carlo Fuortes: “The institutions with which we collaborate bear witness to the great richness of the music expressed by Florence and Tuscany”

Tickets for the “Maggio aperto” events are on sale starting from March 26th, 2025 at 10am

Florence, March 25th, 2025 - The Teatro del Maggio, with the renewed collaboration of some of the most important musical institutions in Florence and Tuscany, announces the program that completes the 87th edition of the Maggio Festival. Starting from April 30th and until June 12th, a cycle of events that make up “Maggio aperto”, up until the threshold of the summer season of the Theater. A series of collaborations that will illuminate not only the Sala Grande and the Zubin Mehta Hall, but also the Orchestra Hall of the Theater, which in recent years has opened its doors to the public who have thus been able to appreciate its formidable acoustics and structure.

"The Maggio Festival has always represented the greatest musical offering in Florence for the quality of its proposals and the variety of its offerings. The strong closeness to the Maggio and the spirit of collaboration of the Florentine and Tuscan musical institutions is renewed with mutual enthusiasm - says Superintendent Carlo Fuortes - in the "Maggio aperto" program that we present today. I am particularly happy that all the spaces of our Theater - the Sala Grande, the Mehta Auditorium and the Orchestra Hall - are opening up to these prestigious institutions, which I thank for wanting to participate and collaborate in this Festival. The Orchestra Regionale della Toscana, Amici della Musica di Firenze,  l’Accademia Bartolomeo Cristofori, the Istituto Giovanni Battista Lulli, Fiesole Music School, Tempo Reale, Gamo, the Conservatorio Cherubini, the Banda Polverosa, Homme Armè and the Accademia Chigiana of Siena come together to testify with us the great wealth of music expressed by Florence and Tuscany that enriches our territory in a continuous dialogue between tradition and music. and innovation.”

If these institutions now make up the “Maggio aperto” calendar, the program announced last September already included the historic and fruitful collaboration with “Gli Amici della Musica Firenze” for the eagerly awaited piano concert by Vladimir Sokolov on June 16th and with the ORT, the Tuscany Regional Orchestra, which with conductor Diego Ceretta will perform Britten’s “War Requiem” on May 3rd, fielding the Orchestra and Choir of the Maggio together with the ORT.

The start of “Maggio aperto” is entrusted to the Accademia del Fortepiano “Bartolomeo Cristofori” with which a series of fortepiano concerts is planned, starting from April 30th, with three other dates scheduled, namely May 7th, 14th and 22nd; the four shows are scheduled in the Orchestra Hall. An equal number of protagonists will alternate at the fortepiano: Ingrid Fliter on April 30th; Giulio Biddau on May 7th and Yoko Kikuchi on May 14th. The events close with the concert by Jin Ju on May 22nd. The Mehta Hall hosts the Giovanni Battista Lulli Institute with the return of maestro Federico Maria Sardelli to the Maggio; the appointment is for May 4th. We return to the Orchestra Hall for an interesting recital – scheduled for May 13th – with protagonists Marina Comparato and, at the piano, Gianni Fabbrini with the proposal of a concert dedicated to Luigi Gordigiani, the so-called “Italian Schubert”. On May 18th, the concert of the Banda La Polverosa is scheduled in Mehta Hall, returning to Maggio after the brilliant show held back in March 2024. Two other collaborations bring the public to the Orchestra Hall of the Theater: the concert with the G.A.M.O, the Gruppo Aperto Musica Oggi, on May 21st and the one of Tempo Reale planned for June 4.

On June 7th is time for the evening together with the Accademia Chigiana – in the Mehta Hall – for a concert dedicated to the great Luigi Dallapiccola, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his death, which features the “Canti di carcere” and a new commission entrusted to Filippo Perocco.

The show that renews the collaboration with the Luigi Cherubini Conservatory, among the oldest and most prestigious in Italy, is scheduled for June 11th in the Orchestra Hall with two concerts, the first at 7 pm and the second at 9 pm, followed the next day by the double concert again at 7 pm and 9 pm together with the Fiesole Music School, again in the Orchestra Hall of the Theater. The Orchestra dei Ragazzi of the Fiesole Music School has been entrusted with the concert reserved for schools scheduled for May 20th at 10:30 am. The concert is part of the project of the Fondazione CR Firenze with the Ufficio Scolastico Regionale Toscana and the Maggio Fiorentino to introduce students to the world of classical music and the Teatro del Maggio for free.

On June 13, the Sala Mehta will be the stage for the last event of “Maggio aperto”: the concert of the ensemble L'Homme Armé is scheduled.