Luciana Mancini

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Chilean-Swedish mezzo soprano Luciana Mancini is a singer of exceptional stage presence and vocal expressiveness, performing opera and concert repertoire that spans from the Renaissance and Baroque to Ravel, Berio and Piazzolla.

She starts the 2026/27 season with her return to Theater an der Wien as Diana in Stefan Herheim’s new production of Cavalli’s La Calisto, before reprising the role at Staatsoper Berlin in the same production. On the concert stage she will perform Bach’s Matthäus-Passion and Messe in h-Moll with Collegium 1704 and Václav Luks at major European venues and return to the Montreal Symphony Orchestra in a Tango-themed programme, conducted by Rafael Payare. Further season highlights include various projects with Christina Pluhar and L’Arpeggiata as well as her signature role of Maria in Piazzolla’s Maria de Buenos Aires at the Ljubljana Festival.

Recent seasons have seen her in the title roles of La Cenerentola, Handel’s Serse and Maria de Buenos Aires at Theater Bonn. At Theater an der Wien she appeared in Combattimenti, a new pastiche with music by Monteverdi, as Maria and as Melissa in Francesca Caccini’s La Liberazione. Luciana Mancini has collaborated with Sasha Waltz in productions of Monteverdi’s Orfeo and Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and as well as performed as Ottavia/Virtù in Ted Huffman’s acclaimed production of L’incoronazione di Poppea with Nederlandse Reisopera. With Le Poème Harmonique she appeared as Nerone/L’incoronazione di Poppea in Bogotà.

Her operatic engagements have also taken her to Staatsoper Berlin, Teatro Real Madrid, Opéra Comique Paris, Drottningholm Festival, De Nationale Opera Amsterdam, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, the Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg, Opera de Lille, Bergen Opera and the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon.

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