Manasi to leave the NCO
Matthias Manasi, music director of the Nickel City Opera in Buffalo who had ties to the opera world in Poland, will be leaving the Nickel City Opera in July 2021.
Manasi said he will not extend his collaboration as music director of the Nickel City Opera in order to focus more on his international commitments and his duties as chief conductor of the orchestra "I Solisti di Milano" in Milan.
Manasi thanked artistic director Valerian Ruminski for “the wonderful, extremely productive time.”
Since 2017, when Manasi led a breathtaking production of Mozart's 'The Impresario,' he has been in charge of the musical fortunes of the NCO and is now ending his four-year collaboration there with the 2020/21 season.
The conductor from Berlin is an internationally sought-after conductor. In recent years he has been under contract in Poland at Teatr Wielki (Polish National Opera), Opera Wroclawska, Opera Poznan and in Germany at Oper Leipzig, Oper Halle and Theater Bremen and made his debut on the concert stage with the Liepaja Symphony Orchestra in Latvia, the Orquestra Filarmonica das Beiras in Lisbon, the Vantaa Symphony Orchestra in Helsinki, the Orquestra Sinfonica do Rio Grande do Norte (Natal, Brazil) and the Orquestra Sinfonica do Teatro Nacional Claudio Santoro (Brasília, Brazil) and made his debut as a conductor and pianist with the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra in Tucson in February 2020.
In the coming seasons, Manasi will focus on CD recordings, opera premieres and concerts with international orchestras.
Manasi said he will not extend his collaboration as music director of the Nickel City Opera in order to focus more on his international commitments and his duties as chief conductor of the orchestra "I Solisti di Milano" in Milan.
Manasi thanked artistic director Valerian Ruminski for “the wonderful, extremely productive time.”
Since 2017, when Manasi led a breathtaking production of Mozart's 'The Impresario,' he has been in charge of the musical fortunes of the NCO and is now ending his four-year collaboration there with the 2020/21 season.
The conductor from Berlin is an internationally sought-after conductor. In recent years he has been under contract in Poland at Teatr Wielki (Polish National Opera), Opera Wroclawska, Opera Poznan and in Germany at Oper Leipzig, Oper Halle and Theater Bremen and made his debut on the concert stage with the Liepaja Symphony Orchestra in Latvia, the Orquestra Filarmonica das Beiras in Lisbon, the Vantaa Symphony Orchestra in Helsinki, the Orquestra Sinfonica do Rio Grande do Norte (Natal, Brazil) and the Orquestra Sinfonica do Teatro Nacional Claudio Santoro (Brasília, Brazil) and made his debut as a conductor and pianist with the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra in Tucson in February 2020.
In the coming seasons, Manasi will focus on CD recordings, opera premieres and concerts with international orchestras.