{"id":3705,"date":"2023-12-13T13:45:21","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T12:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csam.tobetold.film\/?p=3705"},"modified":"2025-09-09T13:32:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T11:32:44","slug":"omar-mancini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csam.tobetold.film\/en\/artists\/tenor\/omar-mancini\/","title":{"rendered":"Omar Mancini"},"content":{"rendered":"

With his \u201c<\/em><\/strong>distinctive\u201d and \u201castonishing\u201d voice (ResMusica<\/em>), Italian tenor Omar Mancini is rapidly becoming an important young voice of his generation. The 2025-2026 season brings highly anticipated role and house debuts, beginning with Mancini\u2019s first performances at Konzert und Theater St. Gallen as Tebaldo in P\u0131nar Karabulut\u2019s new production of I Capuleti e i Montecchi<\/em><\/strong>, conducted by Michael Balke. Mancini makes his house and role debut as Tamino in the new production of Julien Duval\u2019s Die Zauberfl\u00f6te<\/em><\/strong> at Op\u00e9ra National de Bordeaux under the baton of Joseph Swensen and joins the Metropolitan Opera to cover Lawrence Brownlee as Lord Arturo Talbot\u00a0in Bellini\u2019s I Puritani<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Recent career highlights include Mancini\u2019s company and role debut at Semperoper Dresden as Wagner in the new production of Boito\u2019s\u00a0Mefistofele<\/em><\/strong>, staged by Eva-Maria H\u00f6ckmayr and conducted by Andrea Battistoni. In spring 2025, he made his house and role debut as Elvino in\u00a0La sonnambula<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0at Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, sharing the stage with Xabier Anduaga and Nadine Sierra. Mancini also made his Deutsche Oper Berlin debut as Il Conte di Libenskof in Rossini\u2019s\u00a0Il viaggio a Reims<\/em><\/strong>, which he reprised in a 2025 revival.<\/p>\n

On the concert stage, Mancini debuted with the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Carl Orff\u2019s\u00a0Carmina Burana<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and sang as the tenor soloist in Beethoven\u2019s Symphony No. 9<\/em><\/strong> with the Teatro Regio di Torino orchestra under Maestro Michele Spotti at the MITO SettembreMusica Festival. He also returned to Grand Th\u00e9\u00e2tre de Gen\u00e8ve to perform Rossini\u2019s\u00a0Petite Messe Solennelle<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0at Temple de Saint Gervais.<\/p>\n

As a 2022-2024 member of the Grand Th\u00e9\u00e2tre de Gen\u00e8ve\u2019s Jeune Ensemble, he sang the role of Abdallo in Nabucco<\/em><\/strong> alongside Saioa Hernandez as Abigaille and Nicola Alaimo as Nabucco, covered Roberto\/Earl of Leicester in Maria Stuarda<\/em><\/strong>, and performed as Eurimaco in Monteverdi\u2019s Il ritorno d\u2019Ulisse in patria<\/em><\/strong> and Dritter Knappe in Wagner\u2019s Parsifal<\/em><\/strong>. To great acclaim he performed the Italian Tenor in Christoph Waltz new production of Strauss\u2019s Der Rosenkavalier<\/em><\/strong> and later presented the roles of Arbace in Mozart\u2019s Idomeneo<\/em><\/strong> and Fr\u00e8re Helie in Messiaen\u2019s Saint Fran\u00e7ois d\u2019Assise<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Additional highlights include a reprisal of the Conte di Bandiera in Salieri’s La scuola de\u2019 gelosi<\/em><\/strong> as well as Horatio\/La Voix Imaginarie de L\u00e8lio in Berlioz\u2019s Lelio ou le retour \u00e0 la vie,<\/em><\/strong> both for Teatro Regio di Torino. He also made his debut at the Teatro Sociale di Como as the Guardian in Giovanni Sollima\u2019s Acquaprofonda<\/em><\/strong> and debuted the Conte di Bandiera in concert at the 2021 Festival della Valle d\u2019Itria.<\/p>\n

For two consecutive seasons, Omar Mancini was selected for the Bottega Donizetti at the international festival Donizetti Opera<\/em> in Bergamo, where he performed in C\u2019erano una volta due Bergamaschi<\/em><\/strong> presenting music from Gaetano Donizetti, Gioacchino Rossini and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, among others. Also in Bergamo, he was the cover for tenor Javier Camarena in La favorite<\/em><\/strong> (Fernand) and in L\u2019ajo nell\u2019imbarazzo<\/em><\/strong> (Il marchese Enrico).<\/p>\n

The young tenor made his professional debut as soloist in Rossini\u2019s Petite Messe Solennelle<\/em><\/strong> as part of the 150th anniversary of the composer\u2019s death in 2018, followed closely by his operatic debut in the role of Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi<\/em><\/strong> at the Capri Opera Festival.<\/p>\n

Mancini is a 2016 laureate of the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan, studying clarinet with Luigi Magistrelli and opera performance with Davide Gualtieri, under the guidance of Gianluca Valenti. Mancini was admitted in the first diploma level of the Vocal Chamber Music course under the tutelage of Daniela Uccello, from which he graduated with full marks and honors in 2021.<\/p>\n

Mancini was the first prize winner in the Antonio Falconio Summer Edition<\/em> competition and the Licitra Award <\/em>as the best under-26 singer during the Salvatore Licitra<\/em> opera competition in 2019. In 2020, he was a finalist of the Emerging Voices<\/em> in the Aslico competition.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 CSAM, August 2025<\/p>\n

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With his \u201cdistinctive\u201d and \u201castonishing\u201d voice (ResMusica), Italian tenor Omar Mancini is rapidly becoming an important young voice of his generation. The 2025-2026 season brings highly anticipated role and house debuts, beginning with Mancini\u2019s first performances at Konzert und Theater St. Gallen as Tebaldo in P\u0131nar Karabulut\u2019s new production of I Capuleti e i Montecchi, conducted by Michael Balke. Mancini makes his house and role debut as Tamino in the new production of Julien Duval\u2019s Die Zauberfl\u00f6te at Op\u00e9ra National de Bordeaux under the baton of Joseph Swensen and joins the Metropolitan Opera to cover Lawrence Brownlee as Lord Arturo Talbot\u00a0in Bellini\u2019s I Puritani<\/p>\n

Recent career highlights include Mancini\u2019s company and role debut at Semperoper Dresden as Wagner in the new production of Boito\u2019s\u00a0Mefistofele, staged by Eva-Maria H\u00f6ckmayr and conducted by Andrea Battistoni. In spring 2025, he made his house and role debut as Elvino in\u00a0La sonnambula\u00a0at Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, sharing the stage with Xabier Anduaga and Nadine Sierra. Mancini also made his Deutsche Oper Berlin debut as Il Conte di Libenskof in Rossini\u2019s\u00a0Il viaggio a Reims, which he reprised in a 2025 revival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3707,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tenor"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csam.tobetold.film\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csam.tobetold.film\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csam.tobetold.film\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csam.tobetold.film\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csam.tobetold.film\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3705"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/csam.tobetold.film\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9767,"href":"https:\/\/csam.tobetold.film\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3705\/revisions\/9767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csam.tobetold.film\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csam.tobetold.film\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csam.tobetold.film\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csam.tobetold.film\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}