Matthias Manasi

Conductor

– General Management –

Matthias Manasi is one of the most distinguished and innovative conductors of his generation and a highly sought-after guest conductor worldwide. From 2020 to 2024 he was chief conductor of the orchestra ‚I Solisti di Milano‘ and from 2017 to 2021 he was music director and chief conductor of the Nickel City Opera in Buffalo (NY, USA). He was chief conductor of the Orchestra Camerata Italiana and music director of the International PuntaClassic Festival in Montevideo.

Matthias Manasi has enjoyed great success at the Wroclaw Opera, the Opera Poznań, the Oper Leipzig, the Staatsoper Stuttgart, the Theater Bremen, the Opernhaus Halle, the Opernhaus Kiel, the Staatstheater Braunschweig, the Staatstheater Kassel, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Opéra de Marseille, the Opera Constanta, the Stadttheater Klagenfurt, the Polish National Opera in Warsaw, the State Opera Rousse, the Rossini Festival Bad Wildbad and at the Eutiner Festspiele.
He is a regular guest with major orchestras worldwide. These include the Münchner Rundfunkorchester, the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vantaa Orchestra Helsinki, the SWR Symphonieorchester, the Kazakh State Philharmonic Orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic, the Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester Hannover, 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 Vratsa Symphony Orchestra, the Orquestra Sinfonica do Rio Grande do Norte, the Orchestra Sinfonica Metroplitana di Bari, the Sanremo Symphony Orchestra, the Orquestra Filarmonia das Beiras, the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra, the Çukurova State Symphony Orchestra, the Györ Philharmonic Orchestra, the Liepaja Symphony Orchestra, the Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim and the Wiener Mozart Orchestra in the Musikverein Wien.
In the 2024/25 and 2025/26 seasons, appearances as guest conductor are planned with the Sofia Sinfonietta, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Prague Philharmonia, the Astana Opera Symphony Orchestra, the Beijing Symphony Orchestra and the Armenian State 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 Hanssler 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 he worked as an assistant conductor and repetitor at the Staatsoper Stuttgart and as an assistant to Heinz Holliger, to Manfred Honeck and to Miguel Gómez-Martínez. He began his career as a Kapellmeister in Kiel and Oldenburg. His mentors and teachers include Ferdinand Leitner, Karl Österreicher, Jorma Panula, Georg Tintner, Kurt Masur, Sylvain Cambreling, Helmuth Rilling and Gianluigi Gelmetti.