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

Great Performances

Self

Kulturzeit

Self

Le Grand Échiquier

Self

Wagner: Das Rheingold

Self - Conductor

Giuseppe Verdi - La forza del destino

Self - Conductor

Bolero: A Global Hit

Self (archive footage)

Neujahrskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker 2015

Self - Conductor

Wagner: Tannhäuser

Self - Conductor

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2025	Jacqueline du Pré: Genius and Tragedy	Self
2022	Vienna Philharmonic The Exclusive Subscription Concert Series - Zubin Mehta & Martha Argerich	Self - Conductor
2022	Verdi's Il Trovatore	Self - Conductor
2022	Giacomo Puccini: Turandot	Self - Conductor
2021	Geburtstagskonzert für Zubin Mehta zum 85. - Aus der Staatsoper Berlin	Self - conductor
2021	Best Goalkeeper in the World	Self
2021	Inaugurazione Auditorium Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
2020	Der Rosenkavalier	Musikalische Leitung
2020	Quasthoff sings Mahler (Staatskapelle Dresden, 2010)	Self - Conductor
2020	Memorial Concert in honor of Mariss Jansons	Self - Conductor
2019	Bolero: A Global Hit	Self (archive footage)
2019	Pavarotti	Self
2019	Boléro, le refrain du monde	Self (archive footage)
2017	Dancing Beethoven	Self
2017	Pavarotti, Birth of a Pop Star	Self
2017	Book Hunters	Self - Conductor (archive footage)
2017	Jacqueline du Pré: A Gift Beyond Words	Self
2017	The Abduction from the Seraglio	Self - Conductor
2017	Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera	Self - Conductor
2016	Khatia Buniatishvili and Zubin Mehta: Liszt & Beethoven	Self - Conductor
2016	Zubin Mehta: Conductor and Citizen of the World	self
2016	Johannes Brahms: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2	Self - Conductor
2015	Oh du mein Österreich	Self
2015	Neujahrskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker 2015	Self - Conductor
2015	Summer Night Concert	Self - Conductor
2015	The Ninth Symphony by Maurice Béjart	Self - Conductor
2015	Aida	Self - Conductor
2013	Midori spielt Brahms' Violinkonzert	Self - Conductor
2013	Daniel Barenboim 70th Birthday Concert	Self
2013	Verdi: Falstaff (Salzburger Festspiele)	Self - Conductor
2012	Orchestra of Exiles	Self
2012	Israel Philharmonic Orchestra: The 75th Anniversary	Self - Conductor
2012	Aida	Self - Conductor
2011	La Forza Del Destino	Self - Conductor
2010	Wagner: Die Walküre	Self - Conductor
2010	Wagner: Götterdämmerung	Self - Conductor
2010	Wagner: Siegfried	Self - Conductor
2009	Wagner: Das Rheingold	Self - Conductor
2008	Turandot	Self - Conductor
2007	Israel Philharmonic Orchestra 70th Anniversary Concert	Self
2007	New Year's Concert: 2007 - Vienna Philharmonic	Self - Conductor
2007	The Huberman Festival	Self - Conductor
2007	La traviata in Paris	Self - Conductor
2007	La Forza del Destino	Self - Conductor
2007	Giuseppe Verdi - Falstaff	Self - Conductor
2007	Giuseppe Verdi - La forza del destino	Self - Conductor
2006	Fidelio	Self - Conductor
2004	We Want the Light	Self
2003	Christian Ferras (Sibelius, Stravinsky, Franck etc)	Self - Conductor
2003	Uto Ughi - Beethoven
2002	Zubin Mehta Meets Mitsuko Uchida	Self - Conductor
2002	The Abduction from the Seraglio	Self - Conductor
2001	Gran Gala di Verdi	Self - Conductor
2000	Johann Strauss Gala - An Evening of Polka, Waltz, and Operetta	Self - Conductor
1999	Puccini: Turandot at the Forbidden City of Beijing	Self - Conductor
1998	Zubin Mehta: A World full of Music	Self
1998	Tristan und Isolde	Self - Conductor
1996	Abbado: The Silence that Follows the Music	Self
1995	Europakonzert 1995 from Florence	Self - Conductor
1994	The 3 Tenors in Concert 1994	Self - Conductor
1994	The Greatest Love and the Greatest Sorrow	Self
1994	Wagner: Tannhäuser	Self - Conductor
1993	Everything you wanted to know about conductors but were afraid to ask	Self
1991	Carmen by Georges Bizet	Self - Conductor
1990	The Original Three Tenors Concert	Self - Conductor
1990	Joint Concert in Tel Aviv	Self - Conductor
1990	New Year's Concert 1990	Self - Conductor
1986	On Wings of Fire	Self
1986	Tosca	Self - Conductor
1979	Fidelio	Self - Conductor
1977	Zubin Mehta: Los Angeles Philharmonic	Self - Conductor
1973	The Bolero	self
1970	The Trout	Self - Double bassist
1967	Die Entführung aus dem Serail	Self
	Zubin Mehta - Musik hat keine Grenzen	self

Year	TV Show	Role
2023	Kohrra	Raman
1995	Kulturzeit	Self
1991	Boulevard Bio	Self
1976	Live from Lincoln Center	Self
1972	Le Grand Échiquier	Self
1971	Great Performances	Self