Zubin Mehta: Lightning conductor ó At almost 70, the Indian maestro Zubin Mehta is still wowing audiences and dividing critics across the globe

[The Independent, 2 December 2005]
As I wait outside Zubin Mehta’s office, Sir Peter Jonas, formerly the general director of the ENO and now Mehta’s colleague at the Bavarian State Opera, tells me the maestro can still stand on his head. This is an impressive feat for a man of nearly 70. Life may have slowed down for some of his contemporaries, but not for this conductor.