Andrew Manea

Future and recent engagements include MONTERONE Rigoletto Lyric Opera of Chicago, SCARPIA Tosca Grange Festival, Don Carlo ERNANI 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 Arizona Opera, and LORENZO I Capuleti e i Montecchi Opera Omaha.

Highlights of past seasons 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 mainstage debut as an Adler Fellow as MARULLO Rigoletto, and sang HUNTSMAN/GAMEKEEPER Rusalka, SCIARRONE Tosca, DUKE OF NOTTINGHAM Roberto Devereux, MARCHESE D’OBIGNY La traviata, and the world premiere of John Adams’ Girls of the Golden West.

Andrew Manea was awarded First Place and Audience Favorite in the Mary Jacobs Smith Singer of the Year Competition with Shreveport Opera, was a Semifinalist of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, earned Second Place and Audience Favorite in the Opera Columbus Cooper-Bing International Vocal Competition, was a finalist in the Jensen Foundation Vocal Competition, and a Career Grant recipient in the Giulio Gari Foundation Competition.

He holds his Bachelor’s degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music and his Master’s degree from the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Bill McGraw.