Andrew Manea

Upcoming engagements of American baritone Andrew Manea include GEORGE BENTON Dead Man Walking English National Opera, FORD Falstaff Opéra National de Montpellier, GERMONT La traviata Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera, and LUNA Il trovatore in a return to North Carolina Opera.

Most recent engagements include MONTERONE Rigoletto Lyric Opera of Chicago, DUKE OF NOTTINGHAM Roberto Devereux San Francisco Opera, SCARPIA Tosca Grange Festival and Maryland Opera, TONIO Pagliacci Nashville Opera, DON CARLO Ernani and GERMONT La Traviata North Carolina Opera, cover FIGARO Il barbiere di Siviglia and cover GARDINER Moby Dick The Metropolitan Opera, FIGARO Il barbiere di Siviglia and DANILO The Merry Widow Palm Beach Opera, ESCAMILLO Carmen Sarasota Opera and Arizona Opera, LORENZO I Capuleti e i Montecchi Opera Omaha and Messiah Indianapolis Symphony.

Past highlights include MARCELLO La bohème Shreveport Opera, #7 Transformations Merola Opera Program, and ESCAMILLO Carmen in Wuhan, China. With the College-Conservatory of Music at Cincinnati University, he has sung DANILO The Merry Widow, FATHER Hansel and Gretel and the FORESTER The Cunning Little Vixen. On the concert stage, he made his Schwabacher Recital debut with Warren Jones. As a frequent guest of the San Francisco Opera, Andrew made his debut as an Adler Fellow as MARULLO Rigoletto, and sang HUNTSMAN/GAMEKEEPER Rusalka, MARCHESE D’OBIGNY La traviata, and the world premiere of John Adams’ Girls of the Golden West.

Andrew won the Mary Jacobs Smith Singer of the Year Competition and won prizes at Opera Columbus Cooper-Bing International Vocal Competition, and the Giulio Gari Foundation Competition. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music and a Master’s degree from the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Bill McGraw.