Raised in Rome and London, Gaetano studied literature at Oxford and orchestral conducting in Vienna. He speaks six languages fluently and has an equal passion for operatic and symphonic music.
Gaetano’s engagements in upcoming seasons include opera productions at Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg, Opera Vlaanderen, Opéra National de Lorraine and Teatro de la Maestranza de Sevilla and concerts with the Grazer Philharmoniker, Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla, Orquesta Simfònica de les Illes Balears and Cape Town Philharmonic.
In 2022, Gaetano broke onto the international scene conducting Nabucco to great acclaim with Plácido Domingo, the Slovenian Philharmonic and Wiener Staatsopernchor in the Musikverein Graz. He made debuts with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra in the Musikverein, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Simfònica de les Illes Balears, Silesian Philharmonic and graduated summa cum laude from the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien.
Gaetano first gained acclaim as the founder and music director of the Rossini 2016 Young Artists’ Opera Festival in London, with whom he made his operatic debut conducting Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Cadogan Hall. Since then, he has conducted orchestras internationally and has worked regularly with world-class singers including Plácido Domingo, Erwin Schrott, Saioa Hernández and Amartuvshin Enkhbat among others. He has worked as an assistant conductor on over twenty opera productions including Evgeny Onegin (Gran Teatre del Liceu), Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (Opera Vlaanderen), Simon Boccanegra (Teatro Massimo di Palermo), Rigoletto (Royal Opera House Muscat / Arena di Verona), Les Pêcheurs de Perles (Cape Town Opera), Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Mexican National Opera), Carmen (Nikikai Opera Japan) and The Rape of Lucretia (Novaya Opera Moscow).