Luciana Mancini

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Chilean-Swedish mezzo soprano Luciana Mancini is internationally in demand for her intense stage presence and vocal expressiveness in repertoire that spans from the Renaissance and Baroque to Berio and Piazzolla.

The 2025–26 season will see her perform wiith Il Pomo d’Oro and Francesco Corti in a Monteverdi program and for a tour of Bach’s Johannespassion. She also appears in Handel’s Messiah with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra under Rafael Payare. Further highlights include multiple European appearances with Christina Pluhar and L’Arpeggiata, a concert at the Oxford Chamber Music Festival, and collaborations with La Ritirata and Bach Consort Wien.

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

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