Welcome Enrique Mazzola as Lyric’s next Music Director
Lyric Opera of Chicago names dynamic Italian conductor Enrique Mazzola as Lyric’s next music director.
Mazzola is only the third person to serve in this role at Lyric following Sir Andrew Davis, who celebrates his 20th year at the helm and will complete his tenure with Lyric’s 2020/21 Season, formally “passing the baton” to Mazzola for the 2021/22 Season.
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Enrique Mazzola
Eminent Italian conductor Enrique Mazzola has been named as Lyric’s music director designate, effective immediately, and will become Lyric’s music director beginning with the 2021/22 season. Lyric audiences first experienced Mazzola’s artistry when he conducted Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor here in 2016/17, and when he returned for Bellini’s I puritani in 2017/18. In Lyric’s 2019/20 season he leads Verdi’s Luisa Miller to launch the company’s early Verdi series.
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Sir Andrew Davis
Sir Andrew Davis has served as music director and principal conductor of Lyric Opera of Chicago since 2000. Since his debut engagement here in the 1987/88 season, he has led 674 opera performances plus nine special concerts at Lyric, and the majority of Lyric’s free concerts in Millennium Park. He plans to conclude his two-decade-long tenure at the end of the 2020/21 season.
Sir Andrew Davis
Sir Andrew Davis has served as music director and principal conductor of Lyric Opera of Chicago since 2000. Since his debut engagement here in the 1987/88 season, he has led 674 opera performances plus nine special concerts at Lyric, and the majority of Lyric’s free concerts in Millennium Park. He plans to conclude his two-decade-long tenure at the end of the 2020/21 season.
I am thrilled that Enrique Mazzola has accepted Lyric’s invitation to become our next music director,
He has accrued a wealth of international experience in his career to date, and he is tremendously well liked and respected by the Lyric Opera Orchestra and Chorus. I am confident that our audiences and the people of Chicago will be captivated by his artistry, his charm and personality, as has certainly been the case during his initial engagements here in the past few years. I look forward with great excitement to working very closely with Enrique. Our artistic partnership has already started, and is proving both very fruitful and extremely enjoyable.”
Photos: Jean-Baptiste Millot, Todd Rosenberg