Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Founded in 1928 by Vittorio Gui as the Stabile Orchestrale Fiorentina, the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino is an Italian orchestra considered one of the finest orchestras in the country. It is resident in Florence, at the Teatro Comunale.

In the course of its history the Orchestra was led by great conductors such as Victor De Sabata, Antonio Guarnieri, Gino Marinuzzi, Tullio Serafin, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Bruno Walter, Otto Klemperer, Erich Kleiber, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Herbert von Karajan, Leonard Bernstein, Claudio Abbado, Carlo Maria Giulini, Georges Prêtre, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Carlos Kleiber, Georg Solti, Riccardo Chailly, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Seiji Ozawa and Daniele Gatti.



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