Internationally acclaimed conductor Nir Kabaretti's artistic reach
continues to expand around the world, thrilling audiences with his dynamic
conducting style and vast knowledge of all facets of musical performing
arts. In 2018, Kabaretti was appointed Music Director of the Israel
Sinfonietta Be'er Sheva while continuing his tenure with the Southwest
Florida Symphony.
Upon his graduation from the prestigious University of Music and
Performing Arts in Vienna, Kabaretti began working as coach and chorus
master at the Vienna State Opera and the Salzburg Festival. He
subsequently advanced to positions as assistant to the Music Director at
the Teatro Real in Madrid and personal assistant to Maestro Zubin Mehta at
Teatro del Maggio Musicale in Florence, Italy. He collaborated with some
of the world's most distinguished conductors of the time, including
Claudio Abbado, Lorin Maazel, Seiji Ozawa, Valery Gergiev, and Riccardo
Muti.
He received the America-Israel Cultural Foundation Grant for Young
Conductors and won the Forum Junger Künstler Conducting Competition in
1993. In 1994 he was among the finalists in the International Competition
for Conductors in Douai, France.
Maestro Kabaretti keeps a busy international conducting schedule. Notable
appearances include the Israel, Tokyo, Zagreb, Belgrade, Bogota and
Rochester Philharmonic Orchestras, Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di
Roma, Orchestra Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini, Orchestre Philharmonie
Royale de Liège, the Philadelphia, Mantova, Lausanne, and Vienna Chamber
Orchestras, the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Filarmonica
de Buenos, Orquestre National du Theatre du Capitole de Toulouse,
Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano "La Verdi", Bochumer Symphoniker, the
Jerusalem Symphony, and the Real Orquesta Sinfonica de Sevilla.
Kabaretti's operatic and ballet experience includes productions at Teatro
alla Scala di Milano, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence, Teatro
Real de Madrid, The Israeli Opera, Opéra de Lausanne, Avenches Opera
Festival, New National Theatre in Tokyo, Bregenz Festival and Expo 2000 in
Hannover and Teatro San Carlo di Napoli. In 2019 Kabaretti debuted at the
Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago Italy, with Madame Butterfly.
Nir Kabaretti has worked with some of the world's most sought-after
musicians. Some of his most well-known collaborators include Lang Lang,
Placido Domingo, Joyce Di Donato, Angel Joy Blue, Vadim Repin, Gilles
Apap, Hélène Grimaud, and André Watts.
Recent seasons’ engagements have included: a series of concerts in Fort
Myers and Liège with the Orchestre Philharmonique and on tour in Belgium,
followed by appearances in Santa Barbara, Michigan, and Bloomington; in
Parma with the Toscanini Orchestra; in Israel with the Israel Sinfonietta;
in Palermo with the Sicilian Symphony Orchestra; in Bari with the Bari
Symphony Orchestra; and in Padua with the Orchestra di Padova e del
Veneto.
He also conducted Die Fledermaus in Bari; Madama Butterfly
at the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago; Tosca in Jesi and at
the Metz Métropole; L’elisir d’amore at the Opéra de Lausanne; La
Traviata at Teatro Verdi in Pisa and Teatro Pergolesi in Jesi;
Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet and the double bill Infra–En
kopp kaffe at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm; and The
Nutcracker in Rome.
Upcoming engagements include: Giselle at Teatro
Massimo in Palermo.
Nir Kabaretti speaks fluently Hebrew, English, Italian, German and
Spanish.
June 2025