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 upcoming engagements in 2023 include opera productions at Opera Vlaanderen, Opéra Nationale de Lorraine and Teatro de la Maestranza de Sevilla and concerts with the Graz Philharmoniker, RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra and in the Royal Opera House Muscat.
In 2022, Gaetano conducted Nabucco to great acclaim with Plácido Domingo, María José Siri, the Slovenian Philharmonic and Konzertvereinigung 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 Webern Kammerphilharmonie on an ORF III television broadcast 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 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).