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ARTISTIC DIRECTOR/CONDUCTOR

Daniel Oren (born in Jaffa, Israel in 1955) to an Arabic father, and Jewish mother, and is an Israeli conductor.
A protégé of Leonard Bernstein, Oren studied in Germany. His international career began in 1975, when he won the first Herbert von Karajan award.
He started conducting in the United States in 1978. From that moment on, his activity increased in Italy, where he was appointed Musical Director at the Rome Opera House, then at the Verdi Theatre in Trieste, the San Carlo in Naples and the Carlo Felice in Genoa.
At the same period Daniel Oren continued conducting at the most important Italian theatres, including Rome, Florence, Parma, Turin, Naples, Venice and the Verona Arena and at the most important European and American theatres, among them the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Covent Garden in London, the Staatsoper in Vienna, the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires and the Opera Houses in Houston, Dallas, San Francisco and Washington.
He also conducts important orchestras like the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic, the Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Orchestra of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, the Munich Radio Orchestra, among many others.
He's currently (2007) Art Director for the Teatro Verdi in Salerno.