Enrique Mazzola Conductor

Biography

Enrique Mazzola was born in Barcelona and grew up in Milan, where he studied violin and piano and graduated in composition and conducting from the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory. He was Artistic and Musical Director of ONDIF from 2012 to 2019, and is currently Music Director of Lyric Opera Chicago and Principal Guest Conductor at Deutsche Oper Berlin. He recently made his operatic debuts at the Salzburg Festival (Orpheus in the Underworld), the Vienna State Opera (Don Pasquale), and the Amsterdam National Opera with a complete cycle of Donizetti's "Queens" (Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda, Roberto Devereux). He presented the same cycle at the Opernhaus Zurich.

He has also been invited to prestigious institutions such as New York's Metropolitan Opera, the Bregenz Festival and the Glyndebourne Festival. On the symphonic front, he has debuted with the Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Oslo Philharmonic, the New Japan Philharmonic, the Taipei Symphony Orchestra, the Utah Symphony Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre philharmonique du Luxembourg and the Orchestre philharmonique de Bruxelles. He has also appeared with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Bern Philharmonic Orchestra.

In the 2024-2025 season, Enrique Mazzola conducts Rigoletto, Fidelio, and Missy Mazzoli's The Listeners, as well as a program of Puccini works at Lyric Opera Chicago. He returns to Berlin's Deutsche Oper for performances of Macbeth and Werther, Tokyo's New National Theatre for Madame Butterfly, and makes his Aspen Festival debut. In 2018, he was named Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres de la République française.

Debut at the Opéra national de Paris

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Immerse in the Paris Opera universe

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