EnriqueMazzola

Italian conductor Enrique Mazzola is Music Director at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, where he recently announced his extension to 2031. He is also Principal Guest Conductor at Deutsche Oper Berlin.

In the 2024/25 season, Mazzola conducts the Lyric Opera in productions of Rigoletto and Fidelio, Missy Mazzoli’s The Listeners, and a programme of works by Puccini with star soprano, Sondra Radvanovksy. He returns to the Deutsche Oper Berlin for runs of Macbeth and Werther, New National Theatre Tokyo with Madama Butterfly and makes his debut at the Aspen Festival.

Recent highlights on the operatic stage include debuts with Salzburg Festspiele (Orphée aux Enfers), Wiener Staatsoper (Don Pasquale) and Dutch National Opera with a full cycle of Donizetti’s Queens (Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda, Roberto Devereux). Mazzola also brought the same cycle to Opernhaus Zürich. Notable returns include Metropolitan Opera, Bregenzer Festspiele and Glyndebourne Festival Opera and Deutsche Oper Berlin with a landmark performance of the Meyerbeer cycle.

On the symphonic stage, Mazzola has made debuts with Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Oslo Philharmonic, New Japan Philharmonic, Taipei Symphony, Utah Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Luxembourg Philharmonic, Brussels Philharmonic, Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg, and Swedish Radio Symphony. Other highlights include performances with Vienna Symphony, London Philharmonic and Bern Philharmonic.