A new music director
In september 2008, Daniele Gatti becomes music director of the Orchestre National de France after six years of a close and successful relationship with Kurt Masur.
Daniele Gatti becomes Music Director of the Orchestre National de France in September 2008, succeeding Kurt Masur. He has been Music Director of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra since 1996. Mr. Gatti was Music Director of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome from 1992 to 1997, Principal Guest Conductor of the Royal Opera House between 1994 and 1997 and Music Director of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna from 1997 to 2007. He has also been named ‘Accademico’ of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. In 2005 the Italian critics awarded him the Abbiati Prize.
Daniele Gatti has conducted some of the world’s finest orchestras and is a regular guest conductor with the Vienna Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw, Dresden Staatskapelle, Bayerische Rundfunk, Munich Philharmonic, Filarmonica della Scala, New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony and Chicago Symphony orchestras. He has close relationships with the Vienna State Opera and with La Scala. In Vienna he has conducted several new productions (Simon Boccanegra in 2002, Moses und Aaron and Otello in 2006, Boris Godunov in 2007) and he will conduct a new Macbeth in 2009. At La Scala he has conducted Lohengrin in 2007 and Wozzeck in 2008.
He opened the 2008 edition of the Bayreuth Festival with an acclaimed new production of Wagner’s Parsifal.
Mr. Gatti inaugurates the 2008-2009 season with his first concert as Music Director of the Orchestre National de France, at the Théatre des Champs-Elysées in Paris. Throughout the season he gives a series of concerts with the Orchestra both in Paris and in Europe. As guest conductor he opens the symphonic season of Teatro alla Scala in Milan, which is followed by a European tour with the Orchestra Filarmonica del Teatro alla Scala that culminates at Vienna’s Musikverein. He returns for concerts with the Concertgebouw, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Muenchner Philharmoniker, and the Chicago Symphony as well as with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
In December 2008 Mr. Gatti opens the Teatro alla Scala’s season with a new production of Don Carlo. In June 2009 he makes his debut with the Bayerische Staatsoper of Munich conducting a new production of Aida and in August 2009 he returns to his production of Parsifal at the Bayreuth Festival.
Daniele Gatti has made several recordings for BMG/RCA Red Seal including the music of Rossini, Mahler, Prokofiev, Bartók and Respighi. He has recorded Tchaikovsky’s Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Symphonies for Harmonia Mundi.