TEHRAN – Managers of Iran’s Rudaki Foundation and Italy’s Puccini Festival Orchestra have inked a memorandum of understanding in Tehran.

Based on the MOU, the Tehran Symphony Orchestra will give a concert under the baton of maestro Alberto Veronesi, the chairman of the Puccini Festival, in Tehran in April 2017, the Rudaki Foundation has announced in a press release published on Saturday.

In addition, the Tehran Symphony Orchestra conducted by Shahrdad Rohni will be performing in the Puccini Festival 2017.

Musicians from the Orchestra del Festival Puccini and the Young Musician European Orchestra gave a joint concert at the 32nd Fajr Music Festival this year.

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