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Teatro Carlo FeliceSoloist + 1 roles
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ConcertDouble/Triple billMatinéeProgram 7 worksNovecenti Usa 900, Ives, C.CageFeldman
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Teatro dell'Opera di RomaC: Juraj ValčuhaD: Claus Guth
Stařenka Buryjovka (Old Buryjovka)
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Il trittico, Puccini
Teatro Comunale di BolognaC: Roberto AbbadoD: Pier Francesco Maestrini
La Badessa (The Abbess) + 1 roles
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Manon Lescaut, Auber
Teatro Regio di TorinoC: Guillaume TourniaireD: Arnaud Bernard
Madame Bancelin
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Biography
Manuela Custer was born in Novara and made her debut at the Teatro Regio in Turin with Rossini’s Elisabetta regina d’Inghilterra and the role of Cherubino in Nozze di Figaro. This immediately led to an international career which saw her appearing: in Luzern with Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortileges under Viotti, in Montecarlo with Mozart’s Così fan tutte under Accardo, in Verona, Genoa and Lille as Nicklausse in Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann under Richard Bonynge, in Venice and Salzburg with Vivaldi’s Juditha Triumphans under Scimone, at the Istanbul International Festival first in the title role of Bertoni’s Orfeo under Scimone directed by Pier Luigi Pizzi, and afterwards as Irene in Vivaldi’s Bajazet directed by Pizzi under Fabio Biondi, at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw and the Accademia C
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Vivaldi
Dorilla in Tempe
Dorilla(Soprano)
Juditha Triumphans
Juditha(Mezzo-soprano)
Orlando furioso
Alcina(Soprano)
No role specified
Verdi
Falstaff
Mrs. Meg Page(Mezzo-soprano)
Il tramonto
Voice(Singer)
Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio
Cuniza(Mezzo-soprano)
Otello
Emilia(Mezzo-soprano)
Strauss
Salome
Ein Page der Herodias(Mezzo-soprano)
Rossini
La Cenerentola
Angelina(Mezzo-soprano)
Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra
Enrico(Contralto)
Petite messe solennelle
Mezzosoprano(Mezzo-soprano)
Tancredi
Tancredi(Contralto)
Il barbiere di Siviglia
Rosina(Mezzo-soprano)
Berta(Soprano)
No role specified
L'equivoco stravagante
No role specified
L'italiana in Algeri
Isabella(Mezzo-soprano)
Le nozze di Teti e di Peleo
Giunone
La gazzetta
No role specified
La gazza ladra
Pippo(Contralto)
Guillaume Tell
Hedwige(Soprano)
Zelmira
Emma(Contralto)
Respighi
In alto mare
Voice(Singer)
Ravel
L'Enfant et les sortilèges
L'Enfant(Mezzo-soprano)
Puccini
Gianni Schicchi
Zita(Contralto)
Terra e mare
Soloist(Singer)
Madama Butterfly
Suzuki(Mezzo-soprano)
Suor Angelica
La Badessa(Mezzo-soprano)
Poulenc
Dialogues des Carmélites
Sœur Mathilde(Mezzo-soprano)
Pizzetti
I pastori
Voice(Singer)
Pilati, M.
Echi di Napoli
Voice(Singer)
Mare
Voice(Singer)
Paolo Tosti
Due piccoli notturni
Voice(Singer)
Luna d'estate
Voice(Singer)
Quattro canzoni d'Amaranta
Voice(Singer)
Offenbach
Les contes d'Hoffmann
Nicklausse(Mezzo-soprano)
Mussorgsky
Boris Godunov
Fyodor(Mezzo-soprano)
MozartHändel
Der Messias, K. 572
Alto(Mezzo-soprano)
Requiem, K. 626
Alt(Contralto)
Le nozze di Figaro
Marcellina(Soprano)
Monteverdi
L'Orfeo
Proserpina(Soprano)
La Messaggera(Soprano)
L'incoronazione di Poppea
Ottavia(Soprano)
No role specified
Menotti
The Medium
Madame Flora (Baba)(Contralto)
Madame Flora(Singer)
The Telephone
Madame Flora(Singer)
Mascagni
L'amico Fritz
Beppe(Mezzo-soprano)
Malipiero, Gian Francesco
Le Stagioni Italiche
Voice(Singer)
Maderna
Satyricon
Fortunata(Mezzo-soprano)
Quartilla(Soprano)
Leo, Leonardo
L'olimpiade
Argene(Mezzo-soprano)
Janáček
Jenůfa
Stařenka Buryjovka(Contralto)
Ives, C.
114 Songs
Voice(Singer)
Sentimental Ballads
Voice(Singer)
Sunrise (for voice, violin and piano)
Soloist(Mezzo-soprano)
Händel
Messiah
Alto(Contralto)
Haydn
Il mondo della luna
No role specified
Gounod
Faust
Siébel(Mezzo-soprano)
Giordano
Andrea Chénier
Madelon(Mezzo-soprano)
Gershwin
Lady, Be Good
Josephine Wanderwater(Mezzo-soprano)
García
Il Califfo di Bagdad
Kesia(Mezzo-soprano)
Feldman
Only
Soloist(Singer)
Voice, Violin and Piano
Voice(Singer)
Fauré
La Chanson d'Éve, op. 95
Mezzo Soprano(Singer)
Donizetti
Anna Bolena
Smeton(Contralto)
La Fille du Régiment (reduction)
La marchesa di Berkenfield(Mezzo-soprano)
La zingara
Argilla(Mezzo-soprano)
Le nozze in villa
Anastasia(Mezzo-soprano)
Maria Stuarda
Anna Kennedy(Mezzo-soprano)
La Fille du régiment
La Marquise de Berkenfield(Mezzo-soprano)
Il diluvio universale
Ada(Mezzo-soprano)
Cimarosa
Il matrimonio segreto
Fidalma(Mezzo-soprano)
Chenna
Canti dall'inferno
Mezzosoprano
Castelnuovo-Tedesco, M.
Voce Luntana (Fenesta Che Lucive)
Voice(Singer)
Caletti-Bruni
La Didone
Cassandra(Soprano)
Giunone(Soprano)
1. Damigella(Soprano)
Cage
The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs, JC. 53
Voice(Singer)
Britten
Albert Herring
Mrs Herring(Mezzo-soprano)
Bellini
I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Romeo(Mezzo-soprano)
La sonnambula
Teresa(Mezzo-soprano)
Beethoven
Missa solemnis in D major, op. 123
Mezzo-soprano(Mezzo-soprano)
Bartók
A kékszakállú herceg vára
Sally
Barber
A Hand of Bridge
Sally(Contralto)
Auber
Manon Lescaut
Madame Bancelin(Mezzo-soprano)
