Gaetano Lo Coco

Raised in Rome and London, Gaetano has studied literature at Oxford and orchestral conducting in Vienna. He speaks five languages fluently and has a particular passion for opera. 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 as an assistant and rehearsal conductor on opera productions including Simon Boccanegra (Teatro Massimo di Palermo), Rigoletto (Royal Opera House Muscat / Arena di Verona), Les Pêcheurs de Perles (Cape Town Opera), Don Carlos (Grand Opera Lodz), Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Mexican National Opera), Carmen (Nikikai O