Florence, October 23, 2023 – “Fake newsvery, very fake”. This is how the contribution by the Teatro del. begins Maggio Musicale Fiorentino has just published on his official Facebook profile and denied the circulating news about the master’s death Zubin MehtaHonorary Lifetime Director of the Florentine Opera Foundation.
“False news about the death of Maestro Zubin Mehta has been circulating on the Internet for a few minutes now – shared by careless people and which we immediately label as vulgar and inappropriate. The maestro is here.” Los Angeles, answered the phone and so far it doesn’t seem like anyone who has passed away says “Hello!” and laugh a lot. “A long, very long life for our beloved master Mehta,” concludes Maggio’s post.
“Long live Maestro Zubin Mehta. The news of his death made us all happy, but fortunately it was fake news,” says the mayor of Florence. Dario Nardella, spoke during the city council meeting at the Palazzo Vecchio. “I recently heard from a friend of the maestro who called him and he replied: ‘Hello, I’m still alive’ and then he laughed,” said Nardella, who concluded his speech by asking the council to say something. A big round of applause to Maestro Zubin Mehta.”
The false report had recently landed in the Florentine city council: “I wanted to inform the chamber about the conductor’s death,” said Fratelli d’Italia faction leader Alessandro Draghi. There was a dissatisfied “no” vote among council members, which was only suppressed by those who pointed out that it was a fake. There is the theater’s contribution denying this and, immediately after, the words of the mayor Dario Nardella.