November 22 / 2025​

Villa Medicea della Petraia - Firenze

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Mahler: Symphony No.1

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Nima Keshavarzi conductor

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September 12 / 2025​

Padua Cathedral - Padova

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Poulenc: Organ Concerto

Malipiero: Sinfonia n. 6 "degli archi"

Händel: Organ Concerto, Op. 4 No. 4

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Nima Keshavarzi conductor

Alessandro Perin organ

February 9 / 2025​

Sala Zubin Mehta, Teatro del Maggio Musicale - Firenze (House debut)

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George Frideric Handel: Water Music & Fireworks

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Nima Keshavarzi conductor

Gaia Nanni narrator

January 12 / 2024 - 9:00 pm

​Teatro Shalom - Empoli/Italy

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R. Wagner: Siegfried idyll

F. Busoni: Clarinet concertino

A. Schönberg: Kammersymphonie N.2 Op.38

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Giovanni Riccucci clarinet

Nima Keshavarzi conductor

Orchestra La Filharmonie

September 10 / 2023 - 9:00 pm

​Pinacoteca, Certosa - Florence/Italy

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Vincenzo Parisi: Canti di filatrici (Première)

Reza Vali: Folk Songs, set No.8

Luciano Berio: Folk Songs

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Sahba Khalili Amiri soprano

Alda Caiello mezzo-soprano

Nima Keshavarzi conductor

Ensemble la Filharmonie

February 25 / 2023- 9:00 pm

​Teatro Niccolini - Florence/Italy

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Symphony in D, No.30, K.202

Concertone for 2 violins, K.190

Symphony in G, No.40, K.550)

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Gabriele Pieranunzi violin

Daniela Cammarano violin

Nima Keshavarzi conductor

December 21-22 / 2022- 9:00 pm

​Real Collegio - Lucca/Italy

Villa Erba - Cernobbio/Italy

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Music by: Corelli, J. S. Bach, Haendel, Vivaldi

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Davide Alogna violin

Nima Keshavarzi conductor

May 21 / 2022- 9:00 pm

​Auditorium del Suffragio - Lucca/Italy

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W. A. Mozart: Symphony in D, K.196+121

L. Boccherini: Cello Concerto in D, G.478

F. J. Haydn: Symphony Hob. I: 44, "Trauer"

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Enrico Bronzi cello

Nima Keshavarzi conductor

October 01 / 2021- 9:00 pm

​Teatro Politeama - Prato/Italy

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Final Concert & Award ceremony

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Matteo Rubini: Dantesca

Steven Heelein: Nachbild

David John Roche: The waves I ride have never yet been crossed

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Nima Keshavarzi conductor

December 24 / 2020 - 4:30 pm

​Teatrodante Carlo Monni  - Florence/Italy

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Richard Wagner: Siegfried Idyll

Text for Stage performance

by Andrea Bruni

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Andrea Bruni actor

Alessia De Rosa actor

Nima Keshavarzi conductor

September 18, 20 / 2020

​Parco Ducale - Parma/Italy

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Giuseppe Verdi: Messa da Requiem

For choir, soloists and orchestra

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Roberto Abbado conductor

Nima Keshavarzi assistant to M° Abbado

January 24, 2020

Sala Verdi - Milan/Italy

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Ludwig van Beethoven

Egmont, overture op. 84

Piano concerto no.3 in C minor, op.37

Johannes Brahms
Symphony no. 1 in C minor, op.68

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Federico Gad Crema piano
Roberto Abbado conductor

Nima Keshavarzi assistant conductor

November 14, 2019

Teatrodante Carlo Monni - Florence/Italy

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Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Symphony no.3 in A minor op. 56, "Scottish"

Music by Piovani, Pivio, Guerra, Vlad, Braga, Guastella, Cognetti, Pulcini, Taviani, Rendine

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Paolo Moretti multimedia 

Nima Keshavarzi conductor 

*In partnership with Associazione Compositori Musica per Film (ACMF)

May 1, 2019

Teatrodante Carlo Monni - Florence/Italy

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Ludwig van Beethoven

Triple concerto in C major, op.56

Symphony no. 7 in A major, op.92

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Clarice Curradi violin

Augusto Gasbarri cello

Irene Novi piano

Nima Keshavarzi conductor

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February 3, 2019

Teatrodante Carlo Monni - Florence/Italy

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Ottorino Respighi: Trittico botticelliano Sergei Prokofiev: Peter and the wolf 

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Andrea Bruno Savelli director & narrator

Paolo Moretti stage designer

Nima Keshavarzi conductor

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October 18, 2018

Teatrodante Carlo Monni - Florence/Italy

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Gabriel Fauré: Pavane op.50

Franz Schubert: Symphony no. 8 in B minor, D.759 "Unfinished"

Gabriel Fauré: Requiem op.48

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Francesca Caligaris soprano

Kaveh Faraji baritono

Coro Animae Voces - Edoardo Materassi 

Nima Keshavarzi conductor

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September 10, 2018

Terme Tettuccio - Montecatini/Italy

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Bela Bartok: Romanian folk dances

Richard Wagner: Wesendonck lieder

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony

no. 40 in G minor, K.550

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Francesca Caligaris soprano

Aurora Landucci violin

Nima Keshavarzi conductor

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From January 21, 2018

Teatro Costanzi - Rome/Italy

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Giuseppe Verdi: I masnadieri

Tragic opera in four acts
Libretto by Andrea Maffei
based on Die Räuber by Friedrich Schiller

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Roberto Abbado conductor

Massimo Popolizio director

Nima Keshavarzi assistant to M° Abbado

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From August 10, 2017

Adriatic Arena - Pesaro/Italy

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Gioachino Rossini: Le Siège de Corinthe
Tragédie lyrique by Luigi Balocchi e Alexandre Soumet

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Roberto Abbado conductor

La Fura dels Baus/Carlus Padrissa director

Nima Keshavarzi assistant to M° Abbado

From April 21, 2017

Teatro Costanzi - Rome/Italy​

 

Umberto Giordano: Andrea Chénier
Opera in four acts

Libretto by Luigi Illica

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Roberto Abbado conductor

Marco Bellocchio director

Nima Keshavarzi assistant to M° Abbado

November 8 / 2025​

Villa Favard - Firenze

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Dallapiccola: Divertimento in quattro esercizi

Dallapiccola: Tre laudi

Ravel: Ma mère l'oye (suite)

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Nima Keshavarzi conductor

Valeria Matrosovai soprano

Mario Ruffini musicologist / lecturer

May 24 / 2025​

Sala del Buonumore - Firenze

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L. A. Lebrun: Oboe Concerto No.1

I. Stravinsky: Pulcinella (ballet)

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Nima Keshavarzi conductor

Luca Vignali oboe
Clarissa Di Lorenzo mezzo-soprano
Zuodong Wu tenor
Wei Meng bass

November 28 / 2024​

Limonaia di Villa Strozzi - Firenze

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Saint-Saens: Introduction & Rondò capriccioso

N. Campogrande: Violin Concerto

Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony Op.110a

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Francesca Bonaita violin

Nima Keshavarzi conductor

November 29 / 2023 - 9:00 pm

​Limonaia Villa Strozzi - Florence/Italy

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Anton Webern: Langsamer Satz

O. Respighi: Antiche danze e arie, suite N.3

Bela Bartok: Divertimento for strings, Sz. 113

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Nima Keshavarzi conductor

July 21 / 2023 - 9:00 pm

​Convento di Sant'Agnese - Montepulciano/Italy

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Vincenzo Parisi: Canti di filatrici (Première)

Reza Vali: Folk Songs, set No.8

Luciano Berio: Folk Songs

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Sahba Khalili Amiri soprano

Alda Caiello mezzo-soprano

Nima Keshavarzi conductor

Ensemble la Filharmonie

January 13 / 2023- 9:00 pm

​Sala del Buonumore - Florence/Italy

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L. van Beethoven: Coriolan ouverture, Op.62

R. Schumann: Cello concerto, Op.129

L. van Beethoven: The Creatures of Prometheus, Op.43 (Ballet music)

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Erica Piccotti cello

Nima Keshavarzi conductor

September 16 / 2022- 9:00 pm

​Pinacoteca, Certosa - Florence/Italy

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A. Pärt: Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten

O. Respighi: Antiche danze e arie, suite N.3

P. I. Tchaikovsky: Serenade for strings, Op.48

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Nima Keshavarzi conductor

February 08 / 2022- 9:00 pm

​Teatro La Compagnia - Florence/Italy

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​Samuel Barber: Violin concerto

Anders Hillborg: Kongsgaard variations

Wolfgang A. Mozart: Haffner Symphony

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Francesca Bonaita violin

Nima Keshavarzi conductor

June 04 / 2021- 9:00 pm

​Biblioteca E. Ragionieri - Florence/Italy

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Origininal score by Francesco Sottile

(Premiere)

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Text by Iatlo Calvino

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Andrea Bruni narrator

Alessia De Rosa direction

Nima Keshavarzi conductor

October 10, 15, 18 / 2020

​Basilica di Santo Spirito  - Florence/Italy

Abbazia di Badia a Settimo - Scandicci/Italy

Certosa di Firenze - Florence/Italy

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Igor Stravinsky: Histoire du Soldat

Libretto by Charles Ferdinand Ramuz

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Nima Keshavarzi conductor

Sabrina Tinalli stage director

Sara Sicuro choreographer

September 11, 13 / 2020

​Parco Ducale - Parma/Italy

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Giuseppe Verdi: Macbeth

Paris version (1865)

Opera in four parts from the libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, from Shakespeare.
French translation by Charles-Louis-Étienne Nuitter e Alexandre Beaumont

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Roberto Abbado conductor

Nima Keshavarzi assistant to M° Abbado

January 19, 2020

Teatrodante Carlo Monni - Florence/Italy

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Sergei Prokofiev: Peter and the wolf

Andrea Portera: Fulgido Emile (Première)

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Nima Keshavarzi conductor

Andrea Bruno Savelli stage director and narrator

October 30, 31, 2019

Vahdat hall - Tehran/Iran

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Gioachino Rossini: La gazza ladra ouverture

Maurice Ravel: Ma mère l'Oye suite

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no.1 in C major, op.21

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Nima Keshavrazi conductor

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April 11, 14, 2019

Teatrodante Carlo Monni - Florence/Italy

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Hector Berlioz: Lyrical scenes

La captive - Le spectre de la rose - La mort d'Ophélie

Maurice Ravel: Ma mère l'Oye (ballet)

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Antonia Fino contralto

Nuovo Balletto di Toscana 

Davide Bombana choreographer

Coro Animae Voces - Edoardo Materassi

Nima Keshavarzi conductor

November 30, Dicember 2, 2019

Teatrodante Carlo Monni - Florence/Italy

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Gioachino Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia

Opera buffa, libretto by Cesare Sterbini

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Andrea Bruno Savelli director

Nima Keshavarzi conductor

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September 30, 2018

Teatrodante Carlo Monni - Florence/Italy

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Bela Bartok: Romanian folk dances

Joseph Haydn: Cello concerto no. 2 

in D major

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony no.40

in G minor, K.550

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Sandro Laffranchini cello

Aurora Landucci violin 

Nima Keshavarzi conductor

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June 18, 2018

Basilica di San Miniato al Monte

Florence/Italy

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An anthology of Italian musical masterpieces related to Florence 

Ottorino Respighi: Trittico botticelliano

Ian Cecil Scott: The Four Elements (première)

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Glauco Mauri narrator

Francesca Caligaris soprano

Antonia Fino contralto

Nima Keshavarzi conductor

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December 23, 2017

Teatrodante Carlo Monni - Florence/Italy

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Bela Bartok: Romanian folk dances

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Clarinet concerto in A major, K.622
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no.1

in C major, op.21

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Emilio Checchini clarinet

Aurora Landucci violin

Nima Keshavarzi conductor

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June 18, 2017

Terme Tettuccio - Montecatini/Italy

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Richard Wagner: Siegfried Idyll

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony

no. 4 in B flat major, op.60

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Nima Keshavarzi conductor

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December 4, 2016

Teatrodante Carlo Monni - Florence/Italy

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Maurice Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte

Maurice Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no.4

in B flat major, op.60

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Nima Keshavarzi conductor

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October 10 / 2025​

Teatro Politeama Pratese - Prato

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Dante700 - International Competition for Symphonic Compositon

Gianmarco Contini: Paradiso canto XXXIII

Miłosz Krawczyk: L’amor che move il sole

Roberto Sansuini: Land of Light

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Nima Keshavarzi conductor

Paolo Leonardi baritono

Tempo Reale live electronics

March 20 / 2025​

Sala del Buonumore - Firenze

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Gustav Mahler: Symphony No.1

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Nima Keshavarzi conductor

Nikoletta Hertsak soprano

From March 8 to March 24 / 2024​Florence, Udine, Como, Pescara, Avezzano, L'Aquila, Naples, Acri, Vibo Valentia, Messina, Bari

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Music by: Boccherini, Haydn, Mozart

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Enrico Bronzi cello

Nima Keshavarzi conductor

October 06 / 2023- 9:00 pm

​Teatro Politeama - Prato/Italy

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Final Concert & Award ceremony

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Francesco Darmanin: In alto mar per dritto segno

Ruggero Laganà: Laudante

Michał Ziółkowski: De natura caelestis

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Mauro Borgioni baritono

Nima Keshavarzi conductor

July 15 / 2023 - 9:00 pm

​Roman Amphitheatre - El-Jem/Tunisia

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Music by: Rossini, Verdi, Puccini

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Alexandra Grigoras soprano

Magdalena Urbanowicz mezzo-soprano
Alfonso Zambuto tonore, Eric Jang baritono

Nima Keshavarzi conductor

December 29 / 2022- 9:00 pm

​Duomo - Siena/Italy

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Piano concerto in C, No.21, K.467

Symphony in C, No.41, K.551

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Aisa Ijiri piano

Nima Keshavarzi conductor

June 16 / 2022- 9:00 pm

Vahdat hall - Tehran/Iran

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R. Vali: Funebre for violin & strings

H. Sanjari: "Persian pictures" suite

G. Puccini: Preludio sinfonico

F. Busoni: Turandot suite

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Nima Keshavarzi conductor

December 31 / 2021- 9:00 pm

​Teatro Politeama - Prato/Italy

January 01 / 2022- 6:00 pm

​Teatro Verdi - Pisa/Italy

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Gioachino Rossini: La Cenerentola ouverture

Claude Debussy: Petite suite

Piotr I. Tchaikovsky: The nutcracker

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Nima Keshavarzi conductor

January 01 / 2021- 4:30 pm

​Teatrodante Carlo Monni - Florence/Italy

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Jan Sibelius: Valse Triste

Claude Debussy: Danses sacrée et profane

Bela Bartòk: Romanian Folk Dances

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Text for Stage performance

by Andrea Bruni

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Andrea Bruni, Alessia De Rosa actors

Elena Castini harp

Nima Keshavarzi conductor

September 25, 27 / 2020

​Teatro Regio - Parma/Italy

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Giuseppe Verdi: Ernani

Opera in four parts by Francesco Maria Piave
after Hernani by Victor Hugo

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Michele Mariotti conductor

Nima Keshavarzi assistant to M° Mariotti

February 22, 2020

​Teatrodante Carlo Monni - Florence/Italy

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Claudio Bianchi: Unsaid (première)

Maurice Ravel: Ma mère l’Oye (suite)

Igor Stravinskij: Pulcinella (suite)

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Nima Keshavarzi conductor

November 30, 2019

Teatrodante Carlo Monni - Florence/Italy

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Carlo Prosperi: Concerto dell'Arcobaleno for piano, marimba and strings

Piotr Tchaikovskij: Serenade for strings op. 48

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Ilaria Baldaccini piano

Omar Cecchi marimba

Nima Keshavarzi conductor

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From September 28, 2019

Chiesa di San Francesco del Prato

Parma/Italy

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Giuseppe Verdi: Luisa Miller

Opera in three acts by Salvatore Cammarano, from Kabale und Liebe by Friedrich Schiller

Roberto Abbado conductor

Lev Dodin director

Nima Keshavarzi assistant to M° Abbado

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March 3, 2019

Teatrodante Carlo Monni - Florence/Italy

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Johann Strauss Jr: Die Fledermaus ouverture

George Gershwin: Rhapsody in blue

Piotr I. Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker suite, op.71a

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Massimo Barsotti piano

Nima Keshavarzi conductor

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October 30, 2018

Teatrodante Carlo Monni - Florence/Italy

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Samuel Barber: Adagio for strings

Claude Debussy: Danses sacrée et profane

Piotr Tchaikovskij: Serenade for strings op.48

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Elena Castini harp

Nima Keshavarzi conductor

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From September 29, 2018

Teatro Farnese - Parma/Italy

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Giuseppe Verdi: Le trouvère

Opera in four acts 

libretto by Salvadore Cammarono
French translation by Émilien Pacini

Roberto Abbado conductor

Robert Wilson concept, direction, set and light Design

Nima Keshavarzi assistant to M° Abbado

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April 22, 2018

Teatro Affratellamento - Florence/Italy

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Original score by: Kamran Khacheh, Concetta Anastasi

Based on Aprititerra e il mercato dei sogni by M. Pettini

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Francesca Caligaris soprano

Paolo Cognetti narrator

Nima Keshavarzi conductor

Flora Gagliardi concept, direction

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October 14, 2017

Teatrodante Carlo Monni - Florence/Italy

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W. A. Mozart: Adagio & Fugue in C minor

J. S. Bach: Harpsichord concerto in D minor, BWV.1052

Ottorino Respighi: Il tramonto
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: String Symphony no.10 in B minor, MWV N.10

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Francesca Caligaris soprano

Simone Stella, Francesco Fornasaro harpsichord

Nima Keshavarzi conductor

April 27, 2017

Basilica di SS. Annunziata - Florence/Italy

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Samuel Barber: Adagio for strings

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Stabat Mater

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Francesca Caligaris soprano

Antonia Fino contralto

Nima Keshavarzi conductor

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