Daniele Gatti graduated as a composer and orchestra conductor at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan.
He is Music Director of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma and Artistic Advisor of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra.
He was Chief Conductor of Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam and previously he has held prestigious roles at important musical institutions like Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Roma), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (London), Orchestre National de France (Paris), Royal Opera House (London), Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Opernhaus Zürich. Berliner Philharmoniker, Wiener Philharmoniker, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Gewandhausorchester, Filarmonica della Scala and Staatskapelle Dresden are just a few of the renowned symphonic institutions he regularly works with.
Some of the numerous and important new productions he has conducted include Falstaff staged by Robert Carsen (in London, Milan, and Amsterdam); Parsifal staged by Stefan Herheim opening the 2008 Bayreuther Festspiele (one of the very few Italian conductors to have been invited to the Wagnerian festival); Parsifal staged by François Girard at the Metropolitan Opera in New York; four operas at the Salzburger Festspiele (Elektra, La bohème, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Il trovatore). To celebrate Verdi’s anniversary, in 2013 he conducted La traviata at the season opening of the Teatro alla Scala, where he also opened the 2008 season with Don Carlo, and performed other titles including Lohengrin, Lulu, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Falstaff, andWozzeck. Some of his most recent engagements include Pelléas et Mélisande at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Tristan und Isolde at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, and the opening of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma where he conducted the same Wagnerian opera.
The year 2016 saw the beginning of a three-year concert cycle named “RCO meets Europe”, that involved 28 member states of the European Union and it included the project “Side by Side”, a project allowing musicians from local youth orchestras to perform the first musical number of the program next to the members of