This year the prestigious Festival del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, still one of the most important musical events in Italy, reaches its 75th edition.

Two works by Béla Bartók will be staged in one evening, the ballet The miraculous Mandarin (choreography by Jo Kanamori) and the opera Bluebeard’s Castle.

On 6 June Wolfgang Rihm’s Der Maler träumt and Arnold Schönberg’s Pelleas and Melisande in the version for chamber orchestra by Cliff Colnot can be heard for the first time in Italy.