Nir Kabaretti - Music director of the Santa Barbara Symphony
“Conductor of immense
musicality and warm personality" (Zubin Mehta)
Nir Kabaretti has earned an
impressive reputation across continents for his command of a vast symphonic,
operatic and ballet repertoire. Nir Kabaretti collaborates with artists such as
Itzhak Perlmann and Lang Lang. Some of his appearances as guest conductor have
included the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala,
Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquesta Filarmonica de Buenos Aires, Orquestre
National du Theatre du Capitole de Toulouse, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano “La
Verdi”, Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Belgrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Jerusalem
Symphony Orchestra, Israel Symphony Orchestra of Rishon Le Tzion, Haifa Symphony
Orchestra, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Niederösterreichisches
Tonkünstlerorchester, La Orquesta Sinfonica de Madrid, La Orquesta Filarmonica
de Gran Canaria and the Bochumer Symphoniker. In 2002, Kabaretti was appointed
Principal Conductor of the Raanana Symphonette Orchestra in Israel and in 2003,
its Music Director until 2008. His operatic experience includes
productions at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Macbeth, Il
Trovatore, Gianni Schicchi, Il Viaggio a Reims), Teatro Real
in Madrid (La Cenerentola, Die Walküre), The Israeli Opera (Fidelio, Manon
Lescaut), Opéra de Lausanne (Nino Rota’s Il Cappello di Paglia di Firenze, Die
Fledermaus) and The New National Theatre in Tokyo (Il Barbiere di
Siviglia). M° Kabaretti
conducted The Diary of Anne Frank, a guest production of the Vienna State
Opera performed at both the Bregenz Festival and Expo 2000 in Hanover. In 2005
Nir Kabaretti led the Teatro San Carlo di Napoli on its first tour to Japan
conducting Il Trovatore both in Kyoto and Tokyo. During 2004-05,
Kabaretti made his debut at Teatro alla Scala di Milano with Tchaikovsky’s The
Nutcracker, and was invited again in 2007 for a ballet production of
Mendelssohn’s Midsummer Night’s Dream (broadcasted by the Italian
national television RAI). Nir Kabaretti lately conducted: Carmen at the
Granada Theatre (California); a production of Lohengrin at Teatro Colon
in Buenos Aires. He is a regular guest at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, where
during the last years he conducted: a “Soirée Roland Petit” (music by Bizet),
Offenbach’s Gaîté Parisienne, Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet,
Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcrakcer, Minkus’ Don Quixote, Cindarella and
a “Soirée Maurice Béjart”. Other recent appearances include: Tchaikovsky’s Swan
Lake at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence; Falstaff in
Lausanne; Nabucco in Avenches; Fidelio with the Rochester
Philarmonic in New York; concerts in Santa Barbara, Tel Aviv, Toulouse, New
York, Tokyo, Lisbon, Sevilla and Bari.
Future plans include a series of concerts with the
South West Florida Symphony and with the Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra in
Santa Barbara and in Fort Myers
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