Antonello Manacorda Conductor

Biography

Antonello Manacorda was born in Turin to a Franco-Italian family, studied in Amsterdam, and has lived in Berlin for many years. He was concertmaster of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, of which he was a founding member alongside Claudio Abbado, before studying with the Finnish conductor Jorma Panula. Today, he performs at leading opera houses and conducts symphony orchestras of international renown. At the center of his work is the Kammerakademie Potsdam, an ensemble of which he has been artistic director since 2010, and with which he has produced a series of critically acclaimed recordings.

In recent seasons, he has made debuts with the Dresden Staatskapelle, Berlin Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Cleveland Orchestra, and New York's Metropolitan Opera (The Marriage of Figaro). He also conducted a new production of Le Franc-tireur under the baton of Dmitri Tcherniakov at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. He conducted Madame Butterfly at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt and the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. He was invited back to the Vienna State Opera for The Marriage of Figaro and The Abduction from the Seraglio, and to the Royal Opera House in London for La Traviata. He has conducted Madame Butterfly at the Vienna State Opera, Le Franc-tireur at the Dresden Semperoper, and Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique at the Baden-Baden Festival and in Barcelona.

Last season he conducted Carmen at London's Royal Opera House, Le Trouvère at the Stuttgart Staatsoper and Orphée et Eurydice at the Spoleto Festival. In the 2024-2025 season, he will conduct Les Contes d'Hoffmann in London, Les Nozze di Figaro in Zurich, Le Franc-tireur at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and in Baden-Baden, and Maria Stuarda at the Salzburg Festival.

At the Opéra national de Paris: The Magic Flute in 2022; Don Giovanni in 2023.

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Immerse in the Paris Opera universe

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