Gabriele Ferro
1937–2026Italian orchestra conductor who led major European orchestras and opera houses, including the Teatro Massimo in Palermo and Teatro di San Carlo in Naples.
Particulars
Gabriele Ferro was born in Pescara in 1937, the son of composer Pietro Ferro. He studied piano and composition at the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia in Rome, graduating in 1960, and later specialized in conducting under Franco Ferrara with the Dutch Radio Philharmonic in Hilversum. From 1965 he conducted the RAI chamber orchestra Alessandro Scarlatti in Naples and went on to win the RAI competition for young conductors in 1970, beginning a long association with the RAI National Symphony Orchestra, which he served as principal conductor from 1987 to 1991. He was also stable director of the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana from 1979 to 1997 and Generalmusikdirektor of the Stuttgart Staatstheater from 1991 to 1997.
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