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.

Filmography

• 2026Martha Argerich performs Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A minor - Martha Argerich in Vienna
• 2025Concerto di Pasqua dal Duomo di Orvieto 2025 — Conductor
• 2023Concerto di Pasqua dal Duomo di Orvieto 2023 — Conductor
• Kohrra — Raman
• 2022Verdi: La forza del destino — conductor - self, Conductor
• 2021Concerto di Pasqua dal Duomo di Orvieto 2021 — Conductor
• 2021Haydn: Die Schopfung
• 2021Inaugurazione Auditorium Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
• 2020Der Rosenkavalier - Staatsoper Berlin — Self - Conductor, Music Director
• 2003Uto Ughi - Beethoven — Conductor
• 1981An Evening with Danny Kaye and the New York Philharmonic — Self, Music Director
• 1979Manhattan — Conductor
• 1976The Astrologer — Conductor

Appearances as themselves (77)

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