Daniele Gatti

Principal Conductor

When Daniele Gatti takes over the post of Principal Conductor of the Staatskapelle Dresden in August 2024, this will inaugurate a fresh chapter in a long-standing collaboration. Gatti made his debut with the orchestra in February 2000 at the invitation of the then principal conductor, Giuseppe Sinopoli, with a programme featuring works by Mendelssohn, Hindemith and Brahms. Over the following years, he returned several times to Dresden. With Gatti’s mastery of the Staatskapelle’s core repertoire, visionary interpretations and keen sense of the sound and unique traditions of this historic ensemble, audiences can look forward to some outstanding concert experiences. During his first season, he will launch the orchestra’s first complete cycle of Gustav Mahler’s symphonic works.

In addition to his post in Dresden, Daniele Gatti is also Chief Conductor of the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Music Director of the Orchestra Mozart and, since 2016, Artistic Advisor to the Mahler Chamber Orchestra.

Born in Milan in 1961, Gatti studied composition and orchestra conducting at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in his home city. He made his debut at La Scala at the age of 27. This was followed by permanent engagements with leading music institutions such as the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, London’s Royal Opera House, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Teatro Comunale di Bologna. He was subsequently Principal Conductor of the Orchestre National de France (2008–2016), the Zurich Opera House (2009-2012) and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam (2016–2018), as well as Music Director of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma until 2022. Gatti is also a popular guest conductor, appearing for example with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala.

Equally in demand in the field of opera, Daniele Gatti has conducted major new productions such as »Parsifal«, staged by Stefan Herheim, which launched the 2008 Bayreuth Festival, as well as four operas at the Salzburg Festival, namely Richard Strauss’s »Elektra«, Puccini’s »La bohème«, Wagner’s »Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg« and Verdi’s »Il trovatore«. He has opened several seasons of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma with works such as Berlioz’s »La damnation de Faust«, Verdi’s »Rigoletto« and »Les vêpres siciliennes«, Rossini’s »Il barbiere di Siviglia« and the world premiere of Giorgio Battistelli’s »Julius Caesar«. In 2023, he conducted Verdi’s »Falstaff« and all of Tchaikovsky’s symphonies as part of the 85^th Maggio Musicale Fiorentino festival. In summer of 2025, he will return to Bayreuth for a new production of »Die Meistersinger«.

Daniele Gatti’s extensive discography testifies to his broad repertoire. For Sony Classical, he has recorded works by Debussy and Stravinsky with the Orchestre National de France as well as a DVD of Wagner’s »Parsifal«, performed at New York’s Metropolitan Opera. As part of the »RCO Live« series, he conducted the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in recordings of Berlioz’s »Symphonie fantastique«, several Mahler symphonies, a DVD of Stravinsky’s »Le sacre du printemps« also featuring Debussy’s »Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune« and »La mer«, a DVD of Strauss’s »Salome« at the Dutch National Opera and a CD of Bruckner’s Symphony No. 9 as well as the Prelude and »Karfreitagszauber« from Wagner’s »Parsifal«. In 2019, C-Major released a DVD of Wagner’s »Tristan und Isolde« under the baton of Daniele Gatti, staged at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma.

In 2015, Daniele Gatti was awarded the »Franco Abbiati« Prize as best conductor by Italian music critics, and in 2016 was named Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur by the French Republic for his work as Music Director of the Orchestre National de France. He also holds the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.

Concerts with Daniele Gatti

Sunday

1.9.

2024

11:00 | Semperoper

Symphony Concert N° 1

Daniele Gatti | Conductor

Works by Schönberg and Mahler.