Anthony Manoli



Performance Year: 2025

Pianist and Coach Anthony Manoli has worked with some of the leading opera companies throughout the world, including the Theatre Des Champs-Elysees, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Opera Lausanne, and L’Opera Du Rhin as assistant conductor and coach. In addition, the Spoleto Festival in both Italy and the United States, The Los Angeles Opera, The Washington National Opera, Opera New England, Lake George Opera Festiva,l and L’Opera Francais de New York have engaged him as both conductor and pianist/coach. He is summer faculty for Dolora Zajick’s Institute for Young Dramatic Voices and the CoOPERAtive program at Westminster Choir College/Ryder University. Mr. Manoli was also a Fellowship coach at the Tanglewood Festival. Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Mirella Freni, Jose Carreras, Rockwell Blake, Edita Gruberova and Barbara Frittoli are just some of the singers with whom he has worked.

Mr. Manoli has coached for the Domingo-Cafritz Washington National Opera’s Young Artist Program and has worked for the Los Angeles Opera’s Young Artist Program. He has also worked at the Canadian Opera Companies Young Artist Ensemble and for the New National Theater’s Young Artist Program in Tokyo, where he conducted a series of concerts. He is a faculty member of the Mannes College of Music in New York City where he lives and maintains an active coaching studio. He appears frequently in recital with prominent singers worldwide along with performances on television throughout the United States, Asia, Mexico, and Spain. He received his musical training at the New England Conservatory of Music and the Juilliard School, where he was a staff member. His teachers have included Patricia Zander and Herbert Stessin for piano studies and Alberta Masiello for opera studies.

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