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 the 2025/26 season include opera productions at the Grand Théâtre du Luxembourg, Opera Vlaanderen and Ópera de Menorca as well as reinvitations to conduct symphonic concerts with the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra, RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de l’Opéra National de Lorraine and Rzeszow Philharmonic Orchestra among others.
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.
Fluent in Italian, Spanish, English, French, German and Russian, Gaetano has led productions of operatic repertoire ranging from Verdi to Kurt Weill at leading opera houses such as Opera Vlaanderen (Petrushka/Die Sieben Todsünden), Opéra National de Lorraine (Der Silbersee), Teatro de la Maestranza de Sevilla (Nabucco), Fondazione Teatri di Piacenza (Rigoletto), the Teatro Verdi di Trieste (Otello) and the Teatro Verdi di Salerno (L’elisir d’amore, L’italiana in Algeri).
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 Erwin Schrott, Saioa Hernández, Amartuvshin Enkhbat and Arturo Chacón-Cruz 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).