Enrique Mazzola
Enrique Mazzola is already well established on an international level as one of the most innovative and dynamic conductors of his generation. An expert in contemporary music, he specializes in the music of the classical and early romantic period.

As both an opera and concert conductor, he regularly collaborates with orchestras such as the Orchestre National de France, BBC Philharmonic, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra Nazionale della RAI, Tokyo Philharmonic, NDR Radiophilharmonie, Russian National Symphony Orchestra, RTSI Orchestra and theatres such as Teatro alla Scala, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Parisi, 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 processo by Alberto Colla at La Scala in 2001, Medusa by Arnaldo De Felice at the Bayerische Staatsoper and Isabella by Azio Corghi at the Rossini Opera Festival 1998, and many others premieres with the major European opera houses.

Since 2001 he has been invited by the principal European opera houses: Il barbiere di Siviglia at La Scala and Bayerische Staatsoper, Falstaff at the Paris Champs-Elyseés theatre, La finta giardiniera at the Maggio Musicale, Una cosa rara and Hyperion and Flying Dutchman at the Staatstheater in Stuttgart, Il re pastore at La Monnaie, Lucia di Lammermoor in Montecarlo.

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.



February 2009