Introduction
Matthias Manasi is a German conductor and classical pianist. As of 2017 he is the music director of the Nickel City Opera in Buffalo, New York. He has conducted operas and orchestral concerts both in his native Germany and internationally.
According to his official biography, Manasi studied piano, composition, chamber music, and conducting at the Hochschule für Musik Stuttgart and at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe, graduating in piano from the Musikhochschule Karlsruhe in 1995 and in conducting from the Musikhochschule Stuttgart in 1996. After completing his studies, he began his career working as an assistant to the Austrian conductor Manfred Honeck.
Manasi's international conducting engagements have included concerts with the Vienna Mozart Orchestra in Vienna in 2013; the premiere of the oratorio La Passione di padre Pio da Pietrelcina in Pietrelcina, Italy in 2012; a production of La bohème at the International PuntaClassic Festival in Punta del Este, Uruguay in 2011; and Pergolesi's Stabat Mater with the Orchestra Camerata Italiana in Benevento, Italy in 2010.
Recordings
- Rossini: L'occasione fa il ladro – Elizaveta Martirosyan (Berenice), Fanie Antonelou (Ernestina), Gianpiero Ruggeri (Don Parmenione), Mauro Utzeri (Martino), Garðar Thór Cortes (Count Alberto), Joan Ribalta (Don Eusebio); Württemberg Philharmonic Orchestra; Matthias Manasi (harpsichord); Antonio Fogliani (conductor). Recorded live, Rossini in Wildbad Festival, 2005. Label: Naxos