BIOGRAPHY

Mr. Manasi has enjoyed great success at the Staatsoper Stuttgart, the Opera Wroclawska, the Polish National Opera in Warsaw, the Opera Poznań, the Oper Leipzig, the Theater Bremen, the Opernhaus Halle, the Staatstheater Braunschweig, the Staatstheater Kassel, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Opéra de Marseille, the Opera Constanta, the Stadttheater Klagenfurt, the State Opera Rousse, the Rossini Festival Bad Wildbad and at the Eutiner Festspiele, among others

He is a regular guest with major orchestras worldwide. These include the Münchner Rundfunkorchester, the SWR Symphonieorchester, the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vantaa Orchestra Helsinki, the Kazakh State Philharmonic Orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic, the Staatsorchester Stuttgart, the Staatsorchester Braunschweig, the Staatsorchester Kassel, the Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester Hannover, the Oldenburgisches Staatsorchester, the Mecklenburgische Staatskapelle Schwerin, the Nürnberger Symphoniker, the Symphoniker Hamburg, the Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen, the Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, the Philharmonie Baden-Baden, the Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, the Romanian National Radio Orchestra, the Orchestra Sinfonica do Teatro Nacional Claudio Santoro, the Montevideo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Sofia Festival Orchestra, the Vratsa Symphony Orchestra, the Orquestra Sinfonica do Rio Grande do Norte, the Polish Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Sopot, the Orchestra Sinfonica Metroplitana di Bari, the Sanremo Symphony Orchestra, the Orquestra Filarmonia das Beiras, the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra, the Györ Philharmonic Orchestra, the Liepaja Symphony Orchestra, the Adana State Symphony Orchestra, the Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim and the Wiener Mozart Orchestra in the Musikverein Wien.

In the 2024/25 season and 2025/26 sesaon, he will appear at the podium of the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra in addition to concerts with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Beijing Symphony Orchestra and the Astana Opera Symphony Orchestra.

His operatic repertoire also includes numerous 20th and 21st century operas, such as Rodion Shchedrin’s Anna Karenina, Peter Eötvös’ Angels in America, Penderecki’s Paradise Lost, Alban Berg’s Lulu and Wozzeck, Elena Langer’s Figaro Gets a Divorce (2016) and Marc Aurel Floros’ A Bad Man’s Life (1918). He also conducts film-in-concert events worldwide (Harry Potter Film Concert Series) for CineConcerts (Los Angeles).

Matthias Manasi has also gained international acclaim as a pianist. He has appeared as a pianist in Europe, the United States and South America and has led piano concertos by Mozart, Beethoven and R. Strauss from the keyboard.

In April 2023 Matthias Manasi’s new CD with Mozart’s Symphonies Nos. 34-35-36 with the Slovak Sinfonietta for the label Hänssler Classic was released.

Matthias Manasi studied conducting with Thomas Ungar and piano with Andrzej Ratusinski at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart. He also studied piano with Carmen Piazzini at the State University of Music Karlsruhe. At the age of 19 during his studies he started working as an assistant conductor and repetitor at the Staatsoper Stuttgart. He was an assistant to Heinz Holliger and to Manfred Honeck. While still a student he started to work as a conductor at the Opernhaus Kiel. His mentors and teachers include Ferdinand Leitner, Karl Österreicher, Jorma Panula, Georg Tintner, Kurt Masur, Sylvain Cambreling, Helmuth Rilling and Gianluigi Gelmetti.