Maestro Zubin Mehta first conducted the Australian World Orchestra in 2013, then took them on an Indian tour in 2015. On what could well be his last Australian visit, Mo Mehta, as he is fondly known, talks to Shamistha de Soysa about his six-decade career, reuniting with the AWO, Strauss’s tone poems and his love of cricket.

Zubin Mehta
Zubin Mehta. Photo © Oded Antman

“I have been practising what seems to me to be the most beautiful profession in the world. I am a conductor.” 

So says Maestro Zubin Mehta in his autobiography The Score of My Life, a book in which I immersed myself before speaking to the living legend prior to his 2022 Australian tour.

Mehta is about to conduct the Australian World Orchestra...