Zubin Mehta returned to the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, today the first rehearsal and the meeting with the press. On Thursday 18 and Friday 19 at 8.30 pm, he will be on the podium to conduct Carl Orff’s “Carmina Burana”. All the components of the theater will be on stage, two choirs, and an impressive orchestral staff, with the soloists Lucio Gallo, Giovanni Sala and Nadine Sierra. Of “Carmina Burana” says the magnetic master “They are a sexy work, we talk about food, wine, women and above all about Fortune that can lift us up and bring us down a moment later.
Luck is like the moon, it passes and changes quickly. “The deep eyes of the great conductor are those of his youth, now that he has come out of all his vicissitudes, he is ready for new tours all over the world. Del Teatro Massimo remembers his concert in 2000 for the UN, and still states that “the acoustics are so perfect that there is no need to intervene, as other theaters do”.
Mehta is the son of a violinist and just a teenager Zubin tried to conduct the orchestra and his father in the Brahms concert, but he was born in Bombay to an aristocratic Parsi family in 1936, just when Carl Orff was starting to compose his Carmina. “Orff – says the teacher – was a sympathizer of the Nazi regime, the thing is controversial, but in those years perhaps the opposite would not have been possible”.
In reality in Italy the Carmina Burana made their debut at La Scala in 1942, in the middle of the war, a sign that the terrible alliance had produced its fruits. Today, after overcoming the worst of diseases, he remains optimistic. “I am by nature – adds Mehta – but perhaps it is a confidence in the future due to my religion, good words, good thoughts, to have good deeds and then I tell you that in Bombay I studied with the Jesuits and this certainly influenced my vision life from a benevolent perspective “. (HANDLE).
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