Sydney Mancasola

Highlights of Mancasola’s 2026/27 season include her company debut for Opernhaus Zürich as Adele in Strauss’s Die Fledermaus directed by Anna Bernreitner and conducted by Lorenzo Viotti and a return to Los Angeles Opera as Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro directed by James Grey and conducted by James Conlon. Concert appearances include Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang with the Orquesta de Córdoba conducted by Salvador Vázquez. She also embarks on European and US tours of A Night of Mellon Collie and Infinite Sadness with Billy Corgan, founder and frontman of the Smashing Pumpkins. This orchestral and theatrical reimagining of Corgan's landmark 1995 alt rock album premiered last season at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.

Last season, Mancasola returned to the Metropolitan Opera as Lisa in a new production of Bellini’s La Sonnambula, directed by Rolando Villazón and conducted by Riccardo Frizza. She sang Musetta in La bohème for Palm Beach Opera, Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro for Atlanta Opera and Pamina in Barrie Kosky’s production of The Magic Flute for Los Angeles Opera. In 2024/25, she made her house and role debut as Marzelline in Beethoven’s Fidelio for the Lyric Opera of Chicago, her house debut at Dutch National Opera as Adele in Barrie Kosky’s production of Die Fledermaus, as well as debuts at the Opera Nice Côte d’Azur as Pamina and at the Seji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival in Japan as Tytania in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, reprising the role she performed the previous season in her company debuts at both the Fondazione Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa and at the Royal Opera House Muscat. Further recent opera highlights include the title role in Matthew Aucoin’s Eurydice for Boston Lyric Opera, a return to the Metropolitan Opera as Frasquita in a new production of Carmen, and the role of Mélisande in Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande at Des Moines Metro Opera. 

Mancasola made her company debut for the Opéra National de Paris in 2021 in a role debut as Adina in Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’amore and for the Metropolitan Opera in 2019 as Pamina in The Magic Flute. In 2019/20, she made her debut as Bess in a new production Mazzoli’s of Breaking the Waves at the Adelaide Festival Centre in Australia and at the Edinburgh International Festival, where she was awarded a Herald Angel for her performance. She made her European debut at Komische Oper Berlin in 2015 as the heroines in Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann, subsequently returning to the house as Cleopatra in Handel’s Giulio Cesare, Pamina, title role Handel’s Semele and Eurydice in Offenbach’s Orpheus in der Unterwelt.

Mancasola’s recent concert performances include Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 at the Palau de les Arts, Valencia, Haydn’s Die Schöpfung for her Italian debut with the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale RAI conducted by James Conlon, and with the Eugene Symphony Orchestra; Handel’s Messiah with the Santa Fe Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Lexington Philharmonic and with the Philadelphia Orchestra under the direction of Michael Rossi; Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with the Sun Valley Symphony; and Orff’s Carmina Burana, Mendelssohn’s Hear My Prayer and Strauss’s Brentano-Lieder with the Santa Fe Symphony.

Honours and awards include Grand Finals winner of the 2013 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, winner of the 2016 Mabel Dorn Reeder Foundation Prize from Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Top Prize Winner of the Gerda Lissner Foundation Competition, 2nd Prize and Audience Favourite at the Houston Grand Opera Eleanor McCollum Competition, and 1st Prize in the Loren L. Zachary National Vocal Competition. Mancasola is an alumna of the Academy of Vocal Arts, Santa Fe Opera Apprentice Program, where she received the Judith Raskin Memorial Award for Singers, the Gerdine Young Artist program at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and the Brevard Music Center.

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