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The Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino owes its name to the prestigious Maggio Musicale Festival, the oldest in Italy, a primacy it shares in Europe with those of Salzburg and Bayreuth.
Founded – after the birth of the Stabile Orchestrale Fiorentina in 1928 which soon became one of the most important orchestras in Europe – in 1933 in Florence, it immediately acquired a strong and important international vocation. The Festival soon established itself as a nerve center for the dissemination of great European musical culture by indicating, proposing and then also affirming new and unprecedented ways, in the repertoire as well as in contemporary compositions, of a general vision of making a show involving all the arts in an interdisciplinary way performative.
The Festival del Maggio, therefore, becomes a point of reference for the top names in musical entertainment, conductors, directors, artists of the utmost importance who have been performing for decades on the Florentine stage of what was once the glorious Teatro Comunale and, now, of the current Teatro del Maggio, inaugurated in 2014, which has adopted its emblematic name and continues to preserve and perpetrate its prestige between the Festival itself, in the spring and early summer period, and the opera, symphonic and concert seasons distributed throughout the year.
Equipped with the 1,900-seat Great Hall and the new 900-seat Zubin Mehta Auditorium - inaugurated in December 2021, in addition to the majestic spaces of the Foyer, the 2,300-seat external Cavea and further meeting rooms, it represents a prestigious and functional location for all most important congress, association and corporate events.
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