Morgan Manifacier

Tenor

Praised as a performer who “gives himself completely to the singing” (Unser Lübeck), French tenor Morgan Manifacier is quickly establishing a wide-ranging career in opera, art song, and contemporary music. His many opera roles include Pelléas (Pelléas et Mélisande), the title role in Rameau’s Pygmalion, Chevalier de la Force (Dialogues des Carmélites), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), and Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), among others. He has appeared in recital at prestigious festivals such as the Oxford International Song Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, the Toronto Summer Music Festival, and Cincinnati Song Initiative. He is a two-time winner of The American Prize in Voice, the recipient of the Jere H. Brophy Scholar Award from the S. Livingston Mather Vocal Competition, and the winner of the Duo Prize at the John Kerr Awards for English Song with his duo partner, pianist Corinne Penner.

In demand as a guest teacher and clinician, Manifacier has presented lectures and masterclasses at distinguished universities across the world, including Temple University, Gachon University (Seoul), Kyoto City University of Arts, Concordia College, the University of Nevada, Reno, and Texas Tech University. He holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Stony Brook University and currently serves on the voice faculty at Baylor University as Assistant Professor of Voice.