New Conductor Signing

Askonas Holt is very pleased to announce the worldwide general management of conductor, Enrique Mazzola.

Among the most innovative and dynamic conductors of his generation, Enrique Mazzola is already well established on an international level. Alongside a broad range of operatic conducting, he is an expert interpreter of contemporary music (opera and symphonic) and also specialises in the classical and early romantic periods.

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.

He has conducted at many of the principal European opera houses, including Théâtre du Champs-Elyseés, La Scala, Bayerische Staatsoper, Stuttgart Staatstheater, La Monnaie and Maggio Musicale, and collaborates regularly with orchestras such as the Orchestre National de France, Tokyo Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, Russian National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra Nazionale della RAI, NDR Radiophilharmonie and Orchestre Philarmonique du Monte Carlo.

Opera plans for the current season and beyond include 'Don Giovanni', 'Le Comte Ory' and 'Lucia di Lammermoor' with Staatstheater Stuttgart; 'La Favorita' and 'La vedova scaltra' with Opéra de Montpellier; 'Falstaff' for Vlaamse Opera; 'Macbeth' for Opéra du Rhin; 'L'Italiana in Algeri' for Maggio Musicale; and 'L'elisir d'amore' for La Scala and Glyndebourne Festival. He will also appear as guest conductor with NDR Hannover, Russian National Symphony, Orquesta Ciudad de Granada and Orchestre National de l'Ile de France.

7 May, 2008

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