Omar Mancini
Biography
Italian tenor Omar Mancini is one of the promising young voices of his generation. He graduated in clarinet in 2016 at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan under the guidance of Luigi Magistrelli. Concurrently, he started his studies in opera singing with Davide Gualtieri under the guidance of Gianluca Valenti. Mancini was admitted in the first diploma level Vocal Chamber Music course under the guidance of Daniela Uccello which he graduated with full marks and honours in 2021. Omar Mancini is currently a member of the Grand Théâtre de Genève’s Jeune Ensemble.
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Full Biography
Italian tenor Omar Mancini is one of the promising young voices of his generation. He graduated in clarinet in 2016 at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan under the guidance of Luigi Magistrelli. Concurrently, he started his studies in opera singing with Davide Gualtieri under the guidance of Gianluca Valenti. Mancini was admitted in the first diploma level Vocal Chamber Music course under the guidance of Daniela Uccello which he graduated with full marks and honours in 2021. Omar Mancini is currently a member of the Grand Théâtre de Genève’s Jeune Ensemble.
The young tenor made his opera debut as a solo tenor in the Petite Messe Solennelle by Rossini as part of the 150th anniversary of the composer’s death in 2018. Followed by his debut at the Capri Opera Festival in the role of Rinuccio from Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi.
Mancini won first prize in the Antonio Falconio Summer Edition competition and the Licitra Award as best under 26 singers during the Salvatore Licitra opera singing competition in 2019. In 2020, he was a finalist of the Emerging Voices in the Aslico competition.
Omar Mancini kicks of the season 2023-24 in the role of Il Conte di Libenskof in Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and returns to Geneva with performances as Italianischer Tenor in Strauss’s Rosenkavalier, Arbace in Mozart’s Idomeneo and Frère Helie in Massiaen’s Saint François d’Assise.
A current member of the Grand Théâtre de Genève’s Jeune Ensemble Mancini and sang as Roberto/Earl of Leicester (cover) in Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda, as Dritter Knappe in Wagner’s Parsifal and as Eurimaco in Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria. In June 2023, he performed the role of Abdallo in Verdi’s Nabucco, alongside Saioa Hernandez as Abigaille and Nicola Alaimo as Nabucco.
Further highlights of past seasons include his debut at the Teatro Sociale di Como with the role of the Guardian in Giovanni Sollima’s Acquaprofonda, followed by Horatio/La Voix Imaginarie de Lèlio in Berlioz’s Lelio ou le retour à la vie (January 2022) and the role of Conte di Bandiera in Salieri’s La scuola de’ gelosi (May 2022), both at the Teatro Regio di Torino.
He continued singing the role of Conte di Bandiera in a concert version at the Festival della Valle d’Itria in July 2022. In 2021 he was selected for the Bottega Donizetti at the international festival Donizetti Opera where took on the tenor part in C’erano una volta due Bergamaschi presenting music from Gaetano Donizetti, Gioachino Rossini and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart amongst others. During the Donizetti Festival 2022, he was the cover for tenor Javier Camarena in La Favorite (Fernand) and in L’ajo nell’imbarazzo (Il marchese Enrico).
© CSAM, December 2023
