has been one of the established conductors on the international opera and concert scene for many years. His artistic work encompasses both opera and concert performances and is characterized by stylistic mastery, dramatic expressiveness, and a special affinity for the Italian opera tradition.
From 1999 to 2002, Zanetti served as music director of the Flemish Opera. From 2018 to 2022, he served as music director of the Gyeonggi Philharmonic Orchestra in South Korea. Under his artistic direction, the orchestra developed into one of the country’s leading symphony orchestras and gained increasing international recognition through ambitious programs and highly acclaimed performances of the German-Austrian, French, and Italian repertoires.

His artistic career has taken him to many of the world’s most prestigious opera houses, festivals, and concert venues, including the Salzburg Festival (Pentecost), the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, La Scala in Milan, the Bavarian State Opera, the Semperoper in Dresden, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the San Francisco Opera, the Sydney Opera House, the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in London, the Paris Opera, the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, and the Opéra de Monte-Carlo. His repertoire ranges from the great Italian opera composers—Verdi, Puccini, and Rossini—to Mozart, Wagner, Strauss, and Debussy.

As a concert conductor, Zanetti has collaborated with numerous leading orchestras worldwide, including the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Konzerthaus Orchestra, the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, the SWR Symphony Orchestra, the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Weimar, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, the Bruckner Orchestra Linz, the Czech Philharmonic, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Hallé Orchestra, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, the NHK Symphony Orchestra, the Yomiuri Symphony Orchestra, the China Philharmonic Orchestra, the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra, and the Russian National Orchestra at the Rostropovich Festival in Moscow—as well as with numerous other renowned orchestras worldwide.

His artistic work is documented in an extensive discography. Among his most recent releases is the album “Invocation” with Elsa Dreisig (Erato/Warner Classics). Other recordings include Verdi’s *Simon Boccanegra* with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra (Decca), *Rigoletto* and *I Vespri Siciliani* as part of the renowned “Tutto Verdi” project, Flavio Testi’s *Saul* with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, and “The Verdi Album” with Sonya Yoncheva (Sony Classical).