Omar Mancini

Full Biography

With his “distinctive” and “astonishing” voice (ResMusica), Italian tenor Omar Mancini is rapidly becoming one of most important young voices of his generation. 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.

The 2024-2025 season brings highly anticipated role and house debuts, beginning with Mancini’s first performances at Semperoper Dresden as Wagner in a new production of Boito’s Mefistofele staged by Eva-Maria Höckmayr and conducted by Andrea Battistoni. In spring 2025, Mancini makes 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. The production staged by Barbara Lluch is conducted by Lorenzo Passerini. Later in the season he returns to the Deutsche Oper Berlin as Il Conte di Libenskof in Il viaggio a Reims. On the concert stage, Mancini is the tenor soloist in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the orchestra of Teatro Regio di Torino and Maestro Michele Spotti at the MITO SettembreMusica Festival and returns to Grand Théâtre de Genève in Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle at Temple de Saint Gervais.

Last season, Omar Mancini saw his house debut at Deutsche Oper Berlin as Il Conte di Libenskof in Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims. To great acclaim he performed the Italian Tenor in Christoph Waltz new production of Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier, and later in the season he presented the roles of Arbace in Mozart’s Idomeneo and Frère Helie in Messiaen’s Saint François d’Assise.

Additional career 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 the 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. He was also 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 2024