Askonas Holt is delighted to welcome Enrique Mazzola to the roster for worldwide general management.

The Italian conductor has been Music Director of the Lyric Opera of Chicago since 2021, with his contract recently extended to 2031. He is Principal Guest Conductor at Deutsche Oper Berlin, and held the position of Resident Conductor of the Bregenz Festival until this year.

Enrique launched the 2024/25 season at the Lyric with Rigoletto featuring Askonas Holt artists Mané Galoyan, Soloman Howard and Maire Therese Carmack. He followed that with Fidelio, and returns later in the spring to conduct Missy Mazzoli’s The Listeners as well as a programme of works by Puccini with Sondra Radvanovksy.

At Deutsche Oper Berlin, Enrique is currently conducting a new production of Macbeth and returns later in the season for a concert staging of Werther. Elsewhere, Enrique returns to the New National Theatre Tokyo for Madama Butterfly and makes his debut at the Aspen Festival conducting La bohème.

Recent highlights include a new production of Der Freischütz at this year’s Bregenz Festival, hailed as “spectacular” by Bachtrack. Enrique also returned to the Dutch National Opera for Roberto Devereaux, which completed his cycle there of Donizetti’s Queens.

On the concert stage, recent highlights include a return to the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducting Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No.1 alongside Brett Dean’s Amphitheatre and Kinan Azmeh’s Clarinet Concerto with the composer as soloist. Last year also saw a return to the Bern Symphony Orchestra for a programme of Mahler and Mozart.

Enrique was formerly Artistic and Music Director of the Orchestre National d’Île de France, and in 2018 was named a Chevalier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres in recognition of his contribution to musical life in France.

He will be managed at Askonas Holt by Edward Pascall and Joy Pidsley.