Zubin Mehta
Birthday: 1936-04-29
Place of Birth: Mumbai, India
Biography: Zubin Mehta (born 29 April 1936) is an Indian conductor of Western and Eastern classical music. He is music director emeritus of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) and conductor emeritus of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Mehta was music director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra from 1961 to 1967 and of the Los Angeles Philharmonic from 1962 to 1978, the youngest music director ever for any major North American orchestra. In 1969, he was appointed Music Adviser to the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and in 1981 he became its Music Director for Life. From 1978 to 1991, Mehta was music director of the New York Philharmonic. Since 1985, he has also been chief conductor of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence, Italy.
Movies
Oh du mein Österreich
60 years of the Austrian State Treaty (1955 - 2015). Robert Dornhelm and Gabriele Flossmann search f...
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The 3 Tenors in Concert 1994
It's not opera; it's not a pop concert; it's not Broadway. It's all of these and none of them. Once ...
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Johann Strauss Gala - An Evening of Polka, Waltz, and Operetta
Johann Strauss Gala - An Evening of Polka, Waltz, and Operetta...
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The Original Three Tenors Concert
The Three Tenors is a name given to the Spanish singers Plácido Domingo and José Carreras and the It...
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The Bolero
The first part of this Academy Award-winning short consists of a behind-the-scenes look at the Los A...
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On Wings of Fire
Maestro Zubin Mehta introduces the history of Zoroastrianism and prophet Zarathushtra in an epic tha...
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Orchestra of Exiles
The suspenseful chronicle of how the prodigious Polish violinist Bronislaw Huberman helped save Euro...
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Bolero: A Global Hit
Bolero is played every 15 minutes in the world. This film tries to answer how this famous melody ins...
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Best Goalkeeper in the World
Incredible story of Petar Radenkovic. From Belgrade to Munich, from cheap hotel rooms to a Bundeslig...
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Everything you wanted to know about conductors but were afraid to ask
Documentary about the state of the conducting world in the 1990s. Broadcast as part of the BBC OMNIB...
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Zubin Mehta: A World full of Music
The world famous conductor reminisces about his life in a wide ranging discussion about his varied a...
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Neujahrskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker 2015
The 2015 edition of the Vienna Philharmonic New Year's Concert saw Zubin Mehta back on the podium af...
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The Trout
Christopher Nupen's record of the concert given by five young musicians in the new Queen Elizabeth H...
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Wagner: Das Rheingold
In the words of the prestigious German weekly 'Die Zeit,' the stage production of Wagner's 'Rheingol...
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Wagner: Die Walküre
It has been a long time since the events of Das Rheingold. Wotan has fathered nine Valkyries, warrio...
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Wagner: Siegfried
Richard Wagner's dream of a Gesamkuntswerk becomes reality through La Fura dels Baus' visual fantasy...
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Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Richard Wagner's dream of a Gesamkuntswerk becomes reality through La Fura dels Baus' visual fantasy...
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We Want the Light
The struggles of the world’s Jewish people over the course of several centuries are expressed and ex...
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The Greatest Love and the Greatest Sorrow
The Greatest Love and the Greatest Sorrow is a film which sets out to bring the viewer closer, not t...
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Khatia Buniatishvili and Zubin Mehta: Liszt & Beethoven
Vivaldi, Mozart, and Beethoven serve up an evening of glittering virtuosity and transcendent melody ...
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Joint Concert in Tel Aviv
Some concerts are important simply as occasions: The “Joint Concert Tel Aviv” was a celebration of r...
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Dancing Beethoven
A journey through the preparation and hardworking process of ballet dancers and musicians for a uniq...
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Tosca
This live version of Puccini s superbly dramatic opera was recorded in Rome in the exact locations a...
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Daniel Barenboim 70th Birthday Concert
With family and friends present, Daniel Barenboim celebrates his seventieth birthday in the company ...
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Der Rosenkavalier
André Heller is staging "Der Rosenkavalier" (his first opera production) at the Berlin State Opera. ...
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Abbado: The Silence that Follows the Music
Shot over a two-year period observing Abbado: a) Rossini, Overture to 'll Barbiere di Siviglia' b)...
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Israel Philharmonic Orchestra 70th Anniversary Concert
Recorded live at the Frederic R. Mann Auditorium, Tel Aviv, 26 December 2006...
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New Year's Concert: 2007 - Vienna Philharmonic
Metha performs his 4th New Year's Concert with the Vienna Philharmonic. Included are works by Johann...
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Zubin Mehta: Los Angeles Philharmonic
Recorded live at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in 1977, this film showcases the Los Angeles Philharm...
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Zubin Mehta Meets Mitsuko Uchida
Soloists Mitsuko Uchida on the piano, Zinovi Kaplan on the violin and Dudu Carmel on the oboe interp...
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Pavarotti
Featuring never-before-seen footage, concert performances and intimate interviews, filmmaker Ron How...
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Pavarotti, Birth of a Pop Star
Although he is unanimously credited with having democratised opera, making it accessible to the grea...
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Book Hunters
When chaos reigns, while barbaric and fanatical rulers, both ecclesiastical and secular, systematica...
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Zubin Mehta: Conductor and Citizen of the World
Zubin Mehta is one of the most charismatic conductors of our time. A citizen of the world with many ...
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Jacqueline du Pré: A Gift Beyond Words
A tribute to Jacqueline du Pré to mark the thirtieth anniversary of her death thirty years ago, on 1...
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Vienna Philharmonic The Exclusive Subscription Concert Series - Zubin Mehta & Martha Argerich
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Europakonzert 1995 from Florence
Beethoven: Fidelio Overture Paganini: Violin Concerto No. 1 Blacher: Variations on a Theme by Paga...
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Summer Night Concert
On Christmas Eve viewers of ERT1 have the opportunity to watch at 10 pm, the concert of the Vienna P...
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Zubin Mehta - Musik hat keine Grenzen
Zubin Mehta is one of the great conductors of our time. Born in Bombay in 1936, Mehta has lived in F...
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Quasthoff sings Mahler (Staatskapelle Dresden, 2010)
Quasthoff sings Mahler (Staatskapelle Dresden, 2010)...
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Wagner: Tannhäuser
David Alden's production of Wagner's grand romantic opera was recorded at the National Theatre in Mu...
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The Huberman Festival
Pinchas Zuckerman, Isaac Stern, Itzhak Perlman, Zubin Mehta, Israel Philharmonic...
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Jacqueline du Pré: Genius and Tragedy
Yo-Yo Ma narrates a documentary about the remarkable cellist Jacqueline du Pré, whose life and caree...
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Christian Ferras (Sibelius, Stravinsky, Franck etc)
Featuring Sibelius Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D minor, Op 47. Orchestre National de la RTF...
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Johannes Brahms: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
"It is not every day that Brahms sounds so perfect as this," enthused the Kurier newspaper, describi...
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Inaugurazione Auditorium Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Inaugural concert of the new Auditorium of the MMF Theater, conducted by Zubin Mehta, MMF Choir and ...
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Verdi's Il Trovatore
Azucena’s eternal vengeance comes back to set the stage ablaze in the timeless drama of Verdi’s Il t...
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The Ninth Symphony by Maurice Béjart
The first-ever recording on film of Maurice Béjart's Ninth Symphony! Fifty years after its premiere,...
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Aida
Any performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida at La Scala, Milan, is guaranteed to be an experience – but...
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Verdi: Falstaff (Salzburger Festspiele)
This 2013 Salzburg Festival performance of Falstaff, Giuseppe Verdis late masterwork and crowning ac...
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La Forza Del Destino
The cast is a dream team wrote the Financial Times after the premiere of this production of Verdis L...
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Turandot
Internationally acclaimed Chinese film-maker Chen Kaige delivers an opulent staging of the fairy-tal...
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La traviata in Paris
La traviata in Paris is a film-opera of Giuseppe Verdi's La traviata filmed live on television and w...
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Giuseppe Verdi - Falstaff
Ruggero Raimondi and Barbara Frittoli star in this 2006 production of the Verdi opera with Zubin Meh...
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Fidelio
Two years prior to the opening scene, the nobleman Florestan has exposed or attempted to expose cert...
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The Abduction from the Seraglio
Singspiel in three acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The German libretto is by Gottlieb Stephanie, ba...
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Puccini: Turandot at the Forbidden City of Beijing
Turandot at the Forbidden City is a 1998 live production of Puccini's opera Turandot directed by Zha...
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Tristan und Isolde
Peter Konwitschny's new production on the première stage in Munich gives it a new, optimistic interp...
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Carmen by Georges Bizet
Bizet's masterwork, Carmen, directed for stage by the Spanish actress Núria Espert. Royal Opera Hou...
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Fidelio
Leonore disguises herself as a man, "Fidelio," to infiltrate a prison and rescue her husband, Flores...
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Uto Ughi - Beethoven
Uto Ughi recounts Ludwig van Beethoven, performing: Romance in F major for violin and orchestra, Op....
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