Morgan Manifacier

French tenor Morgan Manifacier is quickly establishing an international career as an interpreter of repertoire spanning from the Renaissance to the newest of contemporary music. A versatile and engaging singer, he has sung under the direction of conductors Mark Shapiro, Daniel Beckwith, Christopher Fecteau, David Lawton, Avi Stein, Benoît Renard, and Douglas Martin.

This 2020/2021 season, he will reprise the role of Ararat in January 17, 2007 by Joey Bohigian with Stony Brook Opera, and create the role of Siavash in the world premiere of We the Innumerable by Niloufar Nourbakhsh, in collaboration with the Center for Contemporary Opera.

Other notable opera role highlights include the title role of Pygmalion by Rameau (Stony Brook Opera), Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni (dell’Arte Opera Ensemble), Tamino in Die Zauberflöte (Manhattan Opera Studio), Sultan Soliman in Zaide (Occasional Opera Company), Chevalier de la Force in Dialogues des Carmélites (SBO), Agenore in Il re pastore (SBO), Sorcerer in Dido and Æneas (SBO), Dr. Blind in Die Fledermaus (SBO), and Borsa in Rigoletto (Amore Opera). Morgan also created the role of Man in Healing by Ed Rosenberg III, a new chamber opera premiered at Stony Brook University in 2019.

A fellowship recipient from Oxford Lieder, SongFest, the International Baroque Academy at Musiktheater Bavaria, and the AlpenKammerMusik Festival in Austria, Morgan has worked and collaborated with renowned musicians Roger Vignoles, Kevin Murphy, Alan Louis Smith, Dimitri Dover, Lydia Brown, James Cheung, Tanya Bannister, Chris Robson, as well as composers Libby Larsen and Jake Heggie.

Morgan is currently pursuing his DMA at Stony Brook University under the tutelage of Randall Scarlata and Jeremy Little, and continues to coach with Timothy Long, Christòpheren Nomura, and Roger Malouf. Other major voice teachers include Robert C. White Jr. and Neal Harrelson. He is the grateful recipient of career grants from the Anna Sosenko Assist Trust and the Performing Arts Consortium.