Zubin Mehta

Personal Info

Birthday

April 29, 1936

(89 years old)

Place of Birth

Mumbai, India

Zubin Mehta

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.

Known For

Kohrra

The Trout

Wagner: Die Walküre

Der Rosenkavalier

Wagner: Götterdämmerung

Wagner: Das Rheingold

Zubin Mehta Meets Mitsuko Uchida

Tosca

Filmography

2024
Vienna Philharmonic The Exclusive Subscription Concert Series - Zubin Mehta & Martha Argerich
as Self - Conductor
2021
Best Goalkeeper in the World
as Himself
Geburtstagskonzert für Zubin Mehta zum 85. - Aus der Staatsoper Berlin
as Self - conductor
2020
Quasthoff sings Mahler (Staatskapelle Dresden, 2010)
as Conductor
Der Rosenkavalier
as Musikalische Leitung
2019
Boléro, le refrain du monde
as Self (archive footage)
Pavarotti
as Self
Bolero: A Global Hit
as Self (archive footage)
2017
Jacqueline du Pré: A Gift Beyond Words
as Self
Book Hunters
as Self - Conductor (archive footage)
Pavarotti, Birth of a Pop Star
as Self
2016
Khatia Buniatishvili and Zubin Mehta: Liszt & Beethoven
as Himself - Conductor
Zubin Mehta: Conductor and Citizen of the World
as self
2015
Summer Night Concert
as Conductor
Oh du mein Österreich
as Self
Neujahrskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker 2015
as Self - Conductor
New Year's Concert 2015
as Conductor
2013
Daniel Barenboim 70th Birthday Concert
as Self
Midori spielt Brahms' Violinkonzert
as Self - Conductor
2012
Orchestra of Exiles
as Self
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra: The 75th Anniversary
as Conductor
2010
Wagner: Die Walküre
as Conductor
Wagner: Götterdämmerung
as Conductor
Wagner: Siegfried
as Conductor
2009
Wagner: Das Rheingold
as Conductor
2007
The Huberman Festival
as Self - Conductor
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra 70th Anniversary Concert
as Self
Neujahrskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker 2007
as Conductor
2004
We Want the Light
as Self
2002
Zubin Mehta Meets Mitsuko Uchida
as Conductor
2000
Johann Strauss Gala - An Evening of Polka, Waltz, and Operetta
as Director
1998
Zubin Mehta: A World full of Music
as Self
1996
Abbado: The Silence that Follows the Music
as Self
1995
Europakonzert 1995 from Florence
as Conductor
1994
The Greatest Love and the Greatest Sorrow
as Self
The 3 Tenors in Concert 1994
as Self - Conductor
Wagner: Tannhäuser
as Self - Conductor
1993
Everything you wanted to know about conductors but were afraid to ask
as Self
1990
Joint Concert in Tel Aviv
as Conductor
1986
Tosca
as Conductor
On Wings of Fire
as Self
1973
The Bolero
as self
1970
The Trout
as Double bassist
1967
Die Entführung aus dem Serail
as Self