Sarasota Opera Winter Opera Festival in February and March, usually offering four fully staged operas with the Sarasota Opera Orchestra. The repertoire includes standard works as well as lesser known operas. In March 2008, the Sarasota Opera House reopened after a $20 million renovation with Verdi's "Rigoletto", and in the same year, the company added its first fully staged fall production, Rossini's "The Barber of Seville" bringing the number of operas presented in a season to five. For the most part, the Fall operas have been popular favourites, but in 2012, it presented Daron Hagen's world premiere opera, "Little Nemo in Slumberland".
Nir Kabaretti Real in Madrid ( Cenerentola, Die Walküre ), The Israeli Opera ( Fidelio, Manon Lescaut ), Lausanne Opera ( Nino Rota's Il Cappello di Paglia di Firenze, Die Fledermaus), Avenches Opera Festival Nabucco, The Barber of Seville, Madama Butterfly) and The New National Theatre in Tokyo (The Barber of Seville). He also conducted The Diary of Anne Frank by Fried, a visiting production of the Vienna State Opera, at both the Bregenz Festival and at Expo 2000 in Hannover . In 2005 Kabaretti lead Teatro San Carlo di Napoli on its first tour to Japan conducting Il Trovatore both in