Enrique Mazzola
Among the most innovative and dynamic conductors of his generation, Enrique Mazzola is already well established on an international level. Alongside a broad range of operatic conducting, he is an expert interpreter of contemporary music and also specialises in the classical and early romantic periods.

As both an opera and concert conductor, he regularly collaborates with orchestras such as the Orchestre National de France, Orchestre National de Belgique, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra Nazionale della RAI, Tokyo Philharmonic, NDR Radiophilharmonie, Russian National Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic and theatres such as Teatro alla Scala, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, La Monnaie, Bayerische Staatsoper, Liceu in Barcellona, Stuttgart Staatstheater, Teatro del Maggio Musicale in Florence, Opera di Roma, Flamish Opera, the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.

Since 1997 he has conducted in major European festivals, including an acclaimed new production of Falstaff at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, and München Opernfestspiele, Festival de Radio France, Rossini Opera Festival, Biennale of Venice, Wexford Opera Festival, Wiesbaden Maifestspiele, Festival de Granada.

An accomplished interpreter of contemporary music, Enrique conducted the world premiere of Il Re Nudo by Luca Lombardi at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma in 2009, Medusa by Arnaldo De Felice at the Bayerische Staatsoper in 2005, Il Processo by Alberto Colla at La Scala in 2001 and Isabella by Azio Corghi at the Rossini Opera Festival in 1998, and many others premieres with the major European symphonic orchestras.

Since 2001 he has been invited by the principal European opera houses: Il Barbiere di Siviglia at La Scala, Bayerische Staatsoper and Deutsche Oper Berlin; Falstaff at the Paris Champs-Elyseés theatre; La Finta Giardiniera and L’Italiana in Algeri at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale in Florence, Una Cosa Rara, Hyperion and Flying Dutchman at the Staatstheater in Stuttgart, Il Re Pastore at La Monnaie, Lucia di Lammermoor in Montecarlo, Macbeth at Opera du Rhin

Between 1999 and 2003 Enrique was the Artistic and Music Director of the Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte in Montepulciano, where he conducted many symphonic concerts and new operatic productions with the RNCM Symphony Orchestra.

Born in Spain into a musical family, he started violin and piano studies at an early age, later graduating to conducting and to composition at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan.


April, 2010