Luciana Mancini

The Chilean-Swedish mezzo-soprano Luciana Mancini is internationally sought after due to her intense stage presence and vocal expressiveness, in repertory that reaches from Renaissance and Baroque works to music by Berio and Piazzolla.

Highlights of the 2025/26 season have included Handel’s Messiah with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal under Rafael Payare, Bach’s St John Passion with il Pomo d’Oro and Francesco Corti and performances with the Bach Consort Wien, at the Oxford Chamber Music Festival and with Christina Pluhar and L’Arpeggiata at the MusikTheater an der Wien.

She has performed at renowned venues such as the Berlin State Opera, the Margravial Opera House in Bayreuth, the Opéra Comique, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Baden-Baden Festspielhaus, Carnegie Hall and the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, and has worked with ensembles such as Pygmalion, il Pomo d’Oro, the Ensemble La Fenice, lautten compagney Berlin, Ensemble Matheus, the Budapest Festival Orchestra, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, under conductors such as Pablo Heras-Casado, René Jacobs, Juanjo Mena, Enrico Onofri, Raphaël Pichon, Jordi Savall, Jean-Christophe Spinosi and Jean Tubéry.

Her repertory includes Bach’s oratorios, Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo and L’incoronazione di Poppea, Handel’s La Resurrezione, Lotario and Serse, Rossi’s Il palazzo incantato, Peri’s L’Euridice and Cavalli’s Egisto, along with Annio (La clemenza di Tito) and the title role in La Cenerentola.

With L’Arpeggiata and Christina Pluhar she has sung in Bontempi’s Il Paride at the Potsdam Sanssouci Music Festival and the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music, Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda at the Ludwigsburg Festival and Cavalieri’s Rappresentatione di Anima, et di Corpo and the programmes Los Impossibles, Via Crucis and All’Improvviso on tour in Europe. She participated in recordings of Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine and the Latin American album Los Pájaros Perdidos.

Her recent recordings have included Piazzolla’s María de Buenos Aires with the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn and Vivaldi’s Juditha triumphans with the Ensemble Lorenzo Da Ponte.

Luciana Mancini studied at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague and graduated in 2009, having specialized in 17th-century Italian repertory.