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June 17, 2020Emotion, but also a certain disorientation, then overcome with music, for the hundred spectators who showed up tonight in the hall at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino theater, the first post-Covid concert 'in attendance', an event directed by the maestro Zubin Mehta started at 8 pm. Maggio is the first opera-symphonic institution in Italy to have reopened its doors to the public, albeit in a reduced form and with a maximum capacity of the room reduced to 200 people for compliance with anti-infection measures. And the room was about half saturated. "A great emotion to return to the Teatro del Maggio - said a spectator entering - we were waiting for him with patience and a lot of hope". Mehta, honorary life director of the orchestra conducts Schubert's Fourth Symphony and, with Leonidas Kavakos soloist, the concert for violin and orchestra 'In memory of an angel' by Alban Berg. Il Maggio broadcasts the concert in streaming on the Idagio platform, already experienced in recent days on the occasion of the inaugural singing concert - but only via the web - with a completely Verdi program with the tenor Francesco Meli. An option that will also remain valid for the next concerts scheduled for May: 17th, 20th, 23rd, 30th June, 3rd and 7th July conducted by Zubin Mehta which deals with the execution of the symphonies of Franz Schubert, and on June 27th when he will go up Daniele Gatti on the podium to direct the notes of Franz Joseph Haydn.

Mehta: top audience. Pereira: memorable concert
"The public in Florence is always fantastic. You are all welcome because you are my family for 37 years". The conductor Zubin Mehta said it, tonight on the podium of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino theater, at the end of the first lyric-symphonic concert in Italy since the lockdown for the Coronavirus. In the hall, a hundred spectators, out of 200 possible according to health restrictions, all well spaced. Even the components of the orchestra are at a safe distance: the wind instruments, in particular, placed behind plexiglass protections. The superintendent, Alexander Pereira spoke of a "very memorable concert that I personally will never forget". At the end of the performance, Maestro Mehta was honored by a very long applause from the audience and the orchestra.