SOPRANO
Soprano Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli, concentrates the core her musical activity on the ancient and classical repertoire. She appeared with tAccademia Bizantina and Ottavio Dantone, Les Talens Lyriques and Christophe Rousset, l’Arte del Mondo andWerner Ehrhardt, Academia Montis Regalis cland De Marchi, Europa Galante and Fabio Biondi and with conductors as Federico Maria Sardelli, Andrea Marcon, Attilio Cremonesi.
She has been involved in the rediscovery of rare or forgotten operas, among others, La Rosinda, Artemisia, Veremonda by Francesco Cavalli, Achille in Sciro by Sarro, La Dori by Cesti, Antigono by Gluck. She also appeared as Cleopatra in Händel’s Giulio Cesare in Bonn, Donna Elvira in Mozart’s Don Giovanni in Heidelberg and Würzburg La clemenza di Tito (Vitellia), Così fan tutte and Le nozze di Figaro (Contessa).
In recent seasons she sang Bellezza in Handel’s Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno in Parma with Fabio Biondi’s Europa Galante, Gilade in Vivaldi’s Farnace at Teatro Comunale in Ferrara with Federico Maria Sardelli’s Modo Antiquo. She made her debut at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in 2022 in Lully’s Acis et Galatée, conducted by Sardelli, directed by Benjamin Lazar, at Teatro La Fenice in Venezia in Giorgio Battistelli’s Le baruffe, production by Damiano Michieletto. She sang in Monteverdi’s Orfeo at the Innsbruck Festival with Arte del Mondo and Massimiliano Toni. During 2023 she was Maddalena in Händel’sResurrection in Halle and Karlsruhe with Attilio Cremonesi and with Milano Symphony Orchestra appeared in J. S. Bach’s Johannes Passion. She sang in Boccherini’s Stabat Mater and Pergolesi’sSalve Regina with La Risonanza in Milano and was Angelica in Händel’s Orlandoat Teatro Real in Madrid, Ivor Boltonconducting. .
In 2024 she sang Händel’sLotario at Halle Festival, conducted by Attilio Cremonesi, and in Ristori’s Lamenti di Orfeo in Neuss with the Ensemble 1700. She made her debut in the role of Vitellia in Clemenza di Titoat the Gluck Festival in Bayreuth conducted by Michael Hofstetter. She also sang at the Monteverdi Festival in Cremona with Massimiliano Toni and Ensemble Terza Prattica, at the Festival della Valle d’Itria in the role of Ginevra in Händel’s Ariodante, conducted by Federico Maria Sardelli, directed by Torsten Fischer, and at the Daegu International Opera Festival with Antonio Vivaldi’s Orlando Furioso conducted by Giulio Prandi.
Among her most recent engagements there are Alessandro Scarlatti’s Il trionfo dell’onore at Teatro La Fenice in Venezia, Haydn Theresienmesse
at the Styriarte Festival, Giacomelli Amleto ( Ofelia ) in Lodi with La Lira d’Orfeo, Handel Solomon in Gottingen and Hamburg conducted by George Petrou, Monteverdi Orfeo in Rossini Stabat Mater in Varna, Orfeo by Monteverdi with Arte del mondo and Massimiliano Toni in Cremona’s Monteverdi Festival, a solo recital at La Valletta Baroque festival.
Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli records extensively with Glossa, Naxos, Harmonia Mundi, Sony.
