SOPRANO
Soprano Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli, graduated from the Milano Conservatory and then from the Ferrara Conservatory with Mirella Freni, was a student of Luciano Pavarotti, Alessandra Molinari, Sonia Prina and Fernando Opa. She is currently perfecting her skills with Vivica Genaux and Francesco Miotti. Since her debut, her activity has been directed towards the historically informed recovery of ancient and classical repertoire. Among the most significant collaborations are those with the Accademia Bizantina and Ottavio Dantone, Les Talens Lyriques and Christophe Rousset, l’Arte del Mondo conducted by Werner Ehrhardt, Montis Regalis conducted by A. De Marchi, la Venexiana with Claudio Cavina, the Complesso Barocco with Alan Curtis, Europa Galante by Fabio Biondi and with Federico Maria Sardelli, Andrea Marcon, Attilio Cremonesi.
She has been involved in the rediscovery of rare or forgotten operas, among others, La Rosinda, Artemisia and Veremonda by Francesco Cavalli, Achille in Sciro by Sarro, La Dori by Cesti, Antigono by Gluck and Mirandolina by Bohuslav Martinu. She has participated several times in the project “Opera Buthan”, coordinated by Stefano Vizioli and Aaron Carpene, in Bhutan, USA and in Japan for Monteverdi’s Orfeo. With the Pera Ensemble of Mehmet Yesilcay she has performed in prestigious European halls. Among the many roles she has sung, Cleopatra in Händel’s Giulio Cesare in Bonn, Oberto in Händel’s Alcina at Teatro Real in Madrid, Donna Elvira in Mozart’s Don Giovanni in Heidelberg and Würzburg, Countess in La Scuola dei Gelosi and Falsirena in Fiera di Venezia by Salieri, Rosane in Vivaldi’s La Verità in Cimento and also La clemenza di Tito (Vitellia), Così fan tutte, Don Giovanni 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 and in Piacenza 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, then 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 in the roles of Proserpina, Musica and Messaggera with Arte del Mondo and Massimiliano Toni. In Yokohama she sang in Händel’s Silla with Fabio Biondi and Europa Galante. During 2023 she performed in concert at the Valletta Festival with Arte del Mondo, was Maddalena in Händel’s Resurrection in Halle and Karlsruhe with Attilio Cremonesi; she performed Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater with the Orchestra Sinfonica Città di Prato conducted by Simone Ori and made her debut with the Milano Symphony Orchestra in J. S. Bach’s Johannes Passion. She sang in Boccherini’s Stabat Mater and Pergolesi’s Salve Regina with Risonanza in Milano and was Angelica in Händel’s Orlando at Teatro Real in Madrid conducted by Ivor Bolton.
During the 2024 season she made her debut in Händel’s Lotario at the 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 Tito at 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 upcoming engagements are A. Scarlatti’s Il trionfo dell’onore at Teatro La Fenice in Venezia.
Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli recorded with Glossa, Naxos, Harmonia Mundi, Sony.
