Gaetano Lo Coco

When he wields the baton he does so with the authority of a consummate professional and the sensitivity of a great performer. Il Secolo XIX

29-year-old conductor Gaetano Lo Coco seamlessly combines musical excellence with intercultural sensitivity. In a remarkably short period of time, he has attracted international attention across both the operatic and symphonic repertoire. Raised in Rome and London with family roots in Italy, Spain and Argentina, he is fluent in six languages. He studied literature at Oxford University and orchestral conducting in Vienna.

Gaetano Lo Coco broke onto the international scene in 2022, conducting Nabucco to great acclaim with Plácido Domingo, the Slovenian Philharmonic and Wiener Staatsopernchor in Graz. The same year, he made debuts with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra in the Musikverein, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Simfònica de les Illes Balears, and the Silesian Philharmonic Orchestra Katowice, followed by invitations to the Orquesta del Teatro de Bellas Artes in Mexico City and the Orchestra Filarmonica Giuseppe Verdi di Salerno.

In the 2025/26 season, Gaetano Lo Coco will make his debut on the podium of the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra for a Gala Concert of the Duet Endowment Trust with Golda Schultz and Jacques Imbrailo. He will also return to the Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Lorraine for concerts featuring works by Penderecki, Debussy, Poulenc and Honegger, the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra with Stravinsky's Firebird, and the Filharmonia Podkarpacka in Rzeszów for a complete cycle of Smetana's Má Vlast, after having conducted a successful gala concert there last season with Plácido Domingo.

For a new production of Verdi's Nabucco (stage director: Christiane Jatahy), Gaetano Lo Coco will once again take to the podium as musical director at the Flemish Opera in the 2025/26 season. This production will also mark his debut at the Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg, and he will conduct Verdi's Ballo en maschera for the first time in Menorca. Most recently he has led successful performances at the Teatro de la Maestranza Sevilla (Nabucco), the Opéra national de Lorraine (Der Silbersee), the Opera Vlaanderen (Petrushka/The Seven Deadly Sins) and at the theatres in Salerno, Trieste, Piacenza and Ferrara. With pianistic finesse and an illuminating view on musical and historical questions, he regularly gives concert introductions from the piano, most recently at the Círculo del Liceu Barcelona for La Traviata. 

As founder and musical director of the Rossini 2016 Young Artists' Opera Festival in London, he gained acclaim early on in his career, not only artistically but also as a cultural manager.  He has since been involved in over thirty opera productions, as the assistant of Josep Pons, Alejo Pérez and Francesco Ivan Ciampa, as well as conducting his own productions (L'elisir d'amore, L'Italiana in Algeri, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Nabucco, Rigoletto, La Traviata, Otello, Curlew River). Gaetano Lo Coco has worked with world-class singers including Leo Nucci, Saioa Hernández, Erwin Schrott and María José Siri.

2025/26 season

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