Enrique Mazzola

Enrique Mazzola Conductor

Biography

Trained in composition and conducting at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan, Enrique Mazzola served as Artistic and Music Director of the Orchestre national d’Île-de-France from 2012 to 2019, was Principal Guest Conductor at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, and is currently Music Director of the Lyric Opera of Chicago. He made his debut at the Salzburg Festival with Orpheus in the Underworld, at the Vienna State Opera with Don Pasquale, and at the Dutch National Opera with a complete cycle of Donizetti’s “Queens” (Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda, Roberto Devereux).

He has recently conducted Rigoletto, Fidelio, and The Listeners by Missy Mazzoli in Chicago; Macbeth and Werther in Berlin; and Madama Butterfly in Tokyo. In the symphonic field, he has been invited to conduct the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Bern Symphony Orchestra.

During the 2025–2026 season, he conducts Un ballo in maschera at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, and Médée, Cavalleria rusticana, Pagliacci, and Così fan tutte at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. He was appointed a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters of the French Republic in 2018.

Debut at the Opéra national de Paris.

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Immerse in the Paris Opera universe

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