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. In recent seasons she impressed in the title roles of La Cenerentola, Handel’s Serse and Piazzolla’s Maria de Buenos Aires at Theater Bonn,  at Theater an der Wien in Combattimenti, a new pastiche with music by Monteverdi, as well as Melissa in Francesca Caccini’s La Liberazione. She was also part of Sasha Waltz’ productions of Monteverdi’s Orfeo and Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. Equally sought after in concert, Luciana Mancini has worked with conductors such as Pablo Heras-Casado, Raphaël Pichon, Iván Fischer, Jordi Savall, René Jacobs, Juanjo Mena, Jan Willem de Vriend, Vaclav Luks and Jean-Christophe Spinosi and ensembles like the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Oslo Philharmonic, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Freiburger Barockorchester, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Bachconsort Wien, Ensemble Pygmalion, Collegium 1704, Il Pomo d’Oro, Orchestra of the 18^th Century and Les nouveaux Caractères. Luciana enjoys a particularly close collaboration with L’Arpeggiata and Christina Pluhar.