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Renowned as an expert interpreter and champion of bel canto opera and a specialist in French repertoire and early Verdi, Italian conductor Enrique Mazzola is in demand worldwide as both an operatic and symphonic conductor. He is Principal Guest Conductor at Deutsche Oper Berlin from the 2018-19 season and served as Artistic & Music Director of the Orchestre National d’Île de France from 2012-13 to 2018-19. In October 2018 he was made a Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres reflecting his significant contribution to musical life in France.

Plans for the 2019-20 season include return visits to the Lyric Opera of Chicago (_Luisa Miller_), Opernhaus Zurich (_Don Pasquale_, new production), Wiener Symphoniker for concerts at the Musikverein and Bregenzer Festspiele, Deutsche Oper Berlin (_Le Prophete_ and _Dinorah_), Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec, Glyndebourne Festival Opera (_L'elisir d’amore_), Taiwan Philharmonic and NFM Wroclaw, and his debut with Staatsphilharmonie Nurnberg. Plans thereafter include returns to London Philharmonic in London and on tour.

Recent seasons include notable debuts with Salzburg Festspiele (_Orphée aux Enfers_), Wiener Staatsoper (_Don Pasquale_), Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Oslo Philharmonic, Royal Northern Sinfonia, New Japan Philharmonic, Taipei Symphony, Brussels Philharmonic and Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Return engagements have included Metropolitan Opera (_La fille du régiment_), Opernhaus Zurich (_Turco in Italia_, _Maria Stuarda_, _Il barbiere di Siviglia_, _I puritani_), Bregenzer Festspiele (_Rigoletto_ and previously Rossini’s _Mosè in Egitto_), Scottish Chamber Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Deutsche Oper Berlin (most recently to conduct their new production of _Les Contes d'Hoffmann_), Norske Opera (_Don Giovanni_), Lyric Opera of Chicago (_I Puritani_), Wiener Symphoniker, Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec, Sao Paulo State Symphony, and Glyndebourne Festival Opera (_Il Barbiere di Siviglia_). His final season with Orchestre National d’Île de France included recordings, Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with Cédric Tiberghien and works by Respighi, of whose work he is an acclaimed interpreter. Highlights of previous seasons with ONDIF included a concert version of Rossini’s _La Cenerentola_, recordings and concerts in Paris at the La Seine Musicale and their sold-out Philharmonie de Paris series.

Past opera has also included the Rossini Opera Festival (_La gazzetta_), Theatre des Champs-Elysées (_Tancredi_, _Don Pasquale_, _La scala di seta_, _L'occasione fa il ladro_, _Il signor Bruschino_), Deutsche Oper Berlin (_Dinorah_ in concert, _Il Barbiere di Siviglia_, _Le Vaisseau fantome_, _Falstaff_, _Vasco da Gama_) and the Bolshoi Theatre (_La sonnambula_).

Glyndebourne Festival Opera has included performances of _Don Pasquale_, _Poliuto_, _L’elisir d’amore_ and _Il Barbiere di Siviglia_ and with Glyndebourne On Tour he has conducted _La Cenerentola_ and a new production of _L’elisir d’amore_. Opera credits also include Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (_L’italiana in Algeri_), New National Theatre Tokyo (_Don Giovanni_), Opera du Rhin (_Macbeth_, _La Cenerentola_), Teatro alla Scala (_Don Pasquale_). He also regularly devotes time to working with young musicians, including from the Accademia Teatro alla Scala, Académie de l’Opéra national de Paris, Opéra Studio de l’Opéra national du Rhin, Accademia del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Codarts of Rotterdam and has given conducting masterclasses with the students of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris and Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon.

Major European festivals have included Falstaff at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, Festival de Radio France et Montpellier, Enescu Festival and Haydn Festival with Orchestre National d’Île de France, Bregenzer Festspiele, Salzburg Festspiele, BBC Proms in 2016 with the Glyndebourne new production of _Il Barbiere di Siviglia_, München Opernfestspiele, Rossini Opera Festival, Biennale of Venice, Wexford Opera Festival, Festival de Granada and Les Chorégies d'Orange. Between 1999 and 2003 he 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 Royal Northern College of Music Symphony Orchestra.

An accomplished interpreter of contemporary music, he has commissioned and conducted several premieres with ONDIF. He conducted the world premiere of Colla’s _Il processo_ at La Scala, _Il re nudo_ by Luca Lombardi at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, _Medusa_ by Arnaldo de Felice at the Bayerische Staatsoper, _Isabella_ by Azio Corghi at the Rossini Opera Festival, and many other premieres with major European orchestras.