Biography

Italian conductor Enrique Mazzola is Music Director at the Lyric Opera of Chicago — where he recently announced his extension to 2031.

In the 2025-26 season, Mazzola makes debuts at Staatsoper Berlin with Verdi’s Un ballo in Maschera and at Opera de Paris with Rossini’s La Cenerentola. At the Lyric Opera, he leads productions of Medea, Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci and Cosi fan tutte.

The 2024-25 season marked Mazzola’s final season as Principal Guest Conductor at Deutsche Oper Berlin, where he led a production of Macbeth and closed the season with Werther in concert. Also in this season, he returned to New National Theatre Tokyo with Madama Butterfly and made debuts at the Aspen Festival with La Boheme and at Grand Teton 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.

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