Daniele Gatti
Daniele Gatti is the chief conductor of the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden. He has held prestigious roles at important musical institutions including the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Opernhaus Zürich and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam.
Gatti served as chief conductor at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino from 2022 to 2024, conducting numerous productions including Orphée et Eurydice, Ariadne auf Naxos, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Don Carlo, The Rake’s Progress, Pulcinella, Falstaff, Don Pasquale, Tosca, Madama Butterfly and the complete Tchaikovsky symphonies. He also regularly collaborates with leading orchestras such as the Berliner Philharmoniker and the Wiener Philharmoniker.
In 2025, Gatti opened the Bayreuth Festival for the second time with Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, following Parsifal in 2008. He has been honoured three times with the Franco Abbiati Prize for Best Conductor of the Year.
