Omar Mancini

Full Biography

With his “distinctive” and “astonishing” 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’s first performances at Konzert und Theater St. Gallen as Tebaldo in Pınar Karabulut’s 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’s Die Zauberflöte at Opéra National de Bordeaux under the baton of Joseph Swensen and joins the Metropolitan Opera to cover Lawrence Brownlee as Lord Arturo Talbot in Bellini’s I Puritani

Recent career highlights include Mancini’s company and role debut at Semperoper Dresden as Wagner in the new production of Boito’s Mefistofele, staged by Eva-Maria Höckmayr and conducted by Andrea Battistoni. In spring 2025, he made his house and role debut as Elvino in La sonnambula at 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’s Il viaggio a Reims, which he reprised in a 2025 revival.

On the concert stage, Mancini debuted with the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana and sang as the tenor soloist in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Teatro Regio di Torino orchestra under Maestro Michele Spotti at the MITO SettembreMusica Festival. He also returned to Grand Théâtre de Genève to perform Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle at Temple de Saint Gervais.

As a 2022-2024 member of the Grand Théâtre de Genève’s Jeune Ensemble, he sang the role of Abdallo in Nabucco alongside Saioa Hernandez as Abigaille and Nicola Alaimo as Nabucco, covered Roberto/Earl of Leicester in Maria Stuarda, and performed as Eurimaco in Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria and Dritter Knappe in Wagner’s Parsifal. To great acclaim he performed the Italian Tenor in Christoph Waltz new production of Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier and later presented the roles of Arbace in Mozart’s Idomeneo and Frère Helie in Messiaen’s Saint François d’Assise.

Additional highlights include a reprisal of the Conte di Bandiera in Salieri’s La scuola de’ gelosi as well as Horatio/La Voix Imaginarie de Lèlio in Berlioz’s Lelio ou le retour à la vie, both for Teatro Regio di Torino. He also made his debut at the Teatro Sociale di Como as the Guardian in Giovanni Sollima’s Acquaprofonda and debuted the Conte di Bandiera in concert at the 2021 Festival della Valle d’Itria.

For two consecutive seasons, Omar Mancini was selected for the Bottega Donizetti at the international festival Donizetti Opera in Bergamo, where he performed in C’erano una volta due Bergamaschi 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 (Fernand) and in L’ajo nell’imbarazzo (Il marchese Enrico).

The young tenor made his professional debut as soloist in Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle as part of the 150th anniversary of the composer’s death in 2018, followed closely by his operatic debut in the role of Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi at the Capri Opera Festival.

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.

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

© CSAM, August 2025