Oleg Caetani

Conductor Oleg Caetani, among the last students of Nadia Boulanger, has been equally active in operatic and symphonic repertory. His career has been marked by frequent moves from one organization to another. Caetani was born October 5, 1956, in Lausanne, Switzerland. His upbringing was international. Caetani's father was conductor Igor Markevitch,who married an Italian woman, Donna Topazia Caetani. His first language was French, the language of Lausanne, but his mother had family connections in Brighton, England, and he spent time there as a child and learned to speak English...