Maestro Daniele Gatti Musical Director of the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

The announcement by Superintendent Carlo Fuortes was released today

“With Daniele Gatti, the Maggio marks continuity but also renewal and is ready
to build new important pages in its history”

Florence, June 12th, 2025 – Superintendent Carlo Fuortes announces the appointment of Maestro Daniele Gatti as Musical Director of the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino from 2026 and for the following three years. Maestro Gatti will officially take office as Musical Director on the occasion of the next 88th edition of the Maggio Festival and will remain in office until June 30th, 2029 at the end of the 91st Festival. The Maestro’s artistic commitments with the Maggio will involve him in operas, symphonic and symphonic-choral concerts and tours.

“I am particularly happy to announce this appointment,” says Superintendent Carlo Fuortes. “Daniele Gatti is one of the greatest directors on the international scene and has already profoundly influenced the recent history of our Theater, holding the role of Principal Director until last year with extraordinary artistic results. In the past we have had the opportunity to work together on several occasions and I know his vision, his rigor and his great musical sensitivity well. The choice of Daniele Gatti,” continues the Superintendent, “represents an artistic investment of the highest level. A sign of continuity but also of renewal: welcoming him as the musical director of our Theater means forcefully reaffirming the identity of the Maggio as a center of excellence, a place of musical creation and thought, faithful to its history but always projected towards the future. On behalf of myself, of the Board of Directors of the Foundation and of the entire Theater, I extend the warmest welcome to Daniele Gatti. We welcome him with enthusiasm, ready to build new important pages of our history together.”

"I am happy - says Daniele Gatti - and I am for several reasons. I am returning to make music on a permanent basis with the extraordinary professors of the orchestra and with the artists of the Maggio Musicale choir, to work with all the people linked to the Florentine lyric-symphonic foundation, and I do so in the new role of Music Director, after the previous experience as Principal Conductor. I am also returning to collaborate with Carlo Fuortes, a superintendent of high professionalism and loyalty, for whom I have great respect, and with whom we have happily shared many projects in the past. I thank everyone for this new artistic adventure".