Daniele Gatti

Daniele Gatti graduated as a composer and orchestra conductor at the Conservatorio “Giuseppe Verdi” in Milan. He is currently the Chief Conductor of the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden and has been appointed as the next Music Director of the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, starting in 2026, where he served as Chief Conductor from 2022 to 2024. 

Previously, he was also Music Director of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma and held other prestigious roles at important musical institutions like the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre National de France, the Royal Opera House of London, the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Zurich’s Opernhaus and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam. The Berliner Philharmoniker and the Wiener Philharmoniker are just a few of the renowned symphonic institutions he works with.

Some of the numerous and important new productions he has conducted include Falstaff staged by Robert Carsen (in London, Milan, and Amsterdam); Parsifal staged by Stefan Herheim, which opened the 2008 Bayreuther Festspiele, where he returned in July 2025 to once again inaugurate the festival with a new production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg directed by Matthias Davids; Parsifal staged by François Girard at the Metropolitan Opera in New York; four operas at the Salzburger Festspiele (Elektra, La bohème, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Il trovatore). To celebrate Verdi’s anniversary, in 2013 he conducted La traviata at the season opening of the Teatro alla Scala, where he also opened the 2008 season with Don Carlo, and performed other titles including Lohengrin, Lulu, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Falstaff, and Wozzeck.

Since 2016 he has taught conducting at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena.

He opened several seasons of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma: Tristan und Isolde (2016-17), La Damnation de Faust (2017-2018), Rigoletto (2018-2019), Les Vêpres Siciliennes (2019-2020), Il barbiere di Siviglia (2020-2021), Battistelli’s Julius Caesar (2021-2022). Always with the ensembles of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma he conducted different new productions: I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Zaide, La traviata, Giovanna d'Arco at the Teatro Costanzi, Rigoletto and Il trovatore at the Circux Maximus. At the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino he conducted: Orphée et Eurydice, Ariadne auf Naxos, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Don Carlo, The Rake's Progress, Stravinsky's Pulcinella, Falstaff, the complete Tchaikovsky Symphonies, Don Pasquale, Tosca and Madama Butterfly.

In 2025/26, he conducts the opening concert of the Staatskapelle Dresden and inaugurates the new season of the Semperoper with a new production of Falstaff staged by Damiano Michieletto, where he returns in March 2026 to conduct Parsifal. With the Staatskapelle, he also embarks on three international tours: two in Europe and one in China.

He has been awarded the “Franco Abbiati” Award by Italian music critics three times as best director of the year. In 2016, he was awarded the Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur from the French Republic for his work as Music Director of the Orchestre National de France. Among the awards obtained also that of Grand Officer of Merit of the Italian Republic.

Under Sony Classical he has recorded works by Debussy and Stravinsky with the Orchestre National de France, and a DVD of Wagner's Parsifal staged at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Under the label RCO Live he has recorded Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique, Mahler’s First, Second and Fourth Symphonies, a DVD of Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps together with Debussy's Prélude à l'Après-midi d'un Faune and La Mer, a DVD of Strauss's Salome performed at the Dutch National Opera, a CD of Bruckner's Symphony no. 9 together with the Prelude and the Karfreitagszauber (Good Friday Music) from Wagner's Parsifal.