Récemment il a dirigé le Requiem de Verdi avec l'Orchestre de Santa Cecilia à Rome, Un Bal masqué au Deutsche Oper de Berlin, Otello au Festival de Dresde, Le Trouvère à Helsinki, Khovanchtchina à l'English National Opera, La flûte enchantée à l'Opéra de San Francisco , le Simon Boccanegra a Trieste etc. En France son activité commence à l'Opéra de Nice avec Les Vêpres siciliennes ( le premier opéra de sa carrière à vingt six ans), continue avec la première française de Jeanne d'Arc de Tchaïkovski à Strasbourg, Les Fiançailles au Couvent de Prokofiev à Lyon, Lucrèce Borgia à Marseille et plusieurs concerts. Dans le futur il dirigera La Fanciulla del West et Otello à Seattle , Le Vaisseau Fantôme à l'Opéra de Rome , L'Amore dei tre re à Torino Jeanne d'arc à San Francisco , et des concerts avec ses orchestres préférés . A partir de 2005 il enregistrera avec le Melbourne Symphony Orchestra pour Chandos . Ce fut Nadia Boulanger la première à découvrir son talent et à l'initier à la musique . Après quoi, il approfondit la direction d'orchestre avec Franco Ferrara à Rome , Kyril Kondrachine à Moscou et Ilia Moussine au Conservatoire de Leningrad ou il est diplômé en 1981 . En 1979, il obtient le premier prix au Concours de la RAI à Turin et en 1982 au Concours Karajan de Berlin. Très jeune, il est pianiste répétiteur au Staatsoper de Berlin-Est . Chef attitré de la Staatskapelle de Weimar de 1984 à 1987, premier Kapellmeister de l'Opéra de Francfort de 1987 à 1992, directeur musical à Wiesbaden entre 1992 et 1995, Oleg Caetani acquiert dans ces années une vaste expérience lyrique avec plus de cinquante opéras allant des Iphigénies de Gluck jusqu'au Château de Barbe-Bleue et passant par tous les Verdi , Wagner , Strauss etc. A la tête de l'Orchestre Philharmonique Robert Schumann , dont il fut chef permanent jusqu'à 2001, il inaugure la saison du Palafenice à Venise de 1996, avec la version originale de Tannhäuser . Durant ces années, il entame sa carrière de chef symphonique avec le Gewandhaus de Leipzig , Bayerische Rundfunk, du Wiener Symphoniker, du Maggio Musicale Fiorentino , l'Orchestre de la RTVE de Madrid , celui de la RAI de Turin etc. Il enregistre pour Arts, Claves , EMI , Marco Polo , Orfeo . En 2005, il devient chef permanent et directeur artistique du Melbourne Symphony Orchestra et est nommé directeur musical de l’English National Opera.

Biography :

Oleg Caetani made his Australian debut in 2001 with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and was immediately appointed Chief Conductor Designate for 2003 and 2004. In January 2005 he has taken up the position of Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of this orchestra. Opera and concert conductor, he considers these two aspects of his work equally important . He has a particularly deep relationship with the Staatskapelle Dresden that he conducted since more then three decades ( the first time he was twenty years old ) , Muenchner Philharmoniker and the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi with whom he has also made a large South America Tour. Together they have recorded the first complete cycle ever been done in Italy of the whole Shostakovish symphonies . The 5 & 6 Symphonies has had two prizes 10/10 Classical Today’s in Usa and ffff Telerama in France and the 11 Symphony 10/10 Classical Today’s in Usa and France. Last April Oleg Caetani has conducted in Eurovision,with the Verdi Orchestra a concert offered by the Italian President to the Pope Benedetto XVI in Vatican. In 2001 he made his debut at the Scala with Turandot where he came back in 2005 to conduct Otello . He opened the season 2001 of the Theatre of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino with Don Pasquale . Recent engagements have included A Masked Ball in Berlin, Il trovatore in Helsinki, Otello in Dresden, Khovanschina and Sir John In love by Vaughan Williams in London at the English National Opera, Verdi’s Requiem with the Accademia di Santa Cecilia , the Magic Flute and Norma in San Francisco , Simon Boccanegra in Trieste ( opening of the season 2003/4 ), Golden Cockerel in Toulouse, L’Enfant et les sortileges at the Théatre des Champs Elysée in Paris, The Girl of the Golden West in Seattle and Melbourne, The Flying Dutchman in Rome, L’amore dei Tre Re by Montemezzi in Turin, Benvenuto Cellini in Strasbourg and several concerts with different orchestras ( including Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, San Carlo Orchestra Napoli, Hallé Orchestra Manchester, Orchestre National de Radio France, the Sydney Symphony, the Rai National Orchestra in Turin etc. ) With the Melbourne Symphony he is recording for Chandos and their two Tansman’s cds have won both the Diapason d’or. In 2007 they have toured Europe together. It was the first apparence of an Australian symphonic orchestra in Paris, Madrid, Berlin and Milan. In the next seasons Caetani will conduct Cavalleria rusticana e Pagliacci in Houston, two productions at the Opera in Köln, La Fanciulla del west in Sydney and different concerts with the Verdi Orchestra in Milan and with them also a tour in Spain, the Konzerthaus Orchester in Berlin, the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, the Metropolitan Orchestra in Tokyo, the Orchestra della Radio Svizzera Italiana, the Lithuanian National Orchestra etc. It has been Nadia Boulanger to discover his talent and to initiate him to music . At the Rome Conservatory Santa Cecilia he attended the class of conducting with Franco Ferrara next to the composition course wih Irma Ravinale. Here at seventeen years old he made his theatre debut with a production around Monteverdi’s “Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda “. After that time he went to the Moscow Conservatory to study conducting with Kondraschin and musicology with Nadieschda Nikolaewa .He graduated as conductor at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory with Ilya Mussin. Winner of the RAI Turin competition and Karajan Competition in Berlin , he started his career at the Berlin State Opera “Unter den Linden” as repetiteur and assistant of Otmar Suitner. Since then he has been Chief Conductor at the German National Theatre in Weimar, First Conductor at the Frankfurt Opera House , Music Director first at the Wiesbaden Opera House , later at the Chemnitz Opera House and of the Robert Schumann Philharmonic Orchestra . During these years he was already a guest conductor by orchestras like Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks , Gewandhausorchester , Wiener Symphoniker (with whom he has recorded “Poliuto” by Donizetti for Emi-Cbs) , Yomiuri , Orchestre National de France etc .