Biography

Internationally acclaimed Italian Canadian tenor Manrico Tedeschi, recently returned from Rome where he was Otello in Teatro dell’Opera di Roma’s Otello conducted by Riccardo Muti. Manrico was born in Montreal of Italian parents and his distinguished career of 20 years has led him to such famed opera houses as La Scala, Arena di Verona, l’Opera di Roma, Berlin Staatsoper, Hungarian State Opera, La Fenice, Regio di Parma, Opera Marseilles, Regio in Turin, Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania, Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Teatro San Carlo in Lisbon, Teatro Carlo Felice in Genova, Teatro Verdi in Trieste, Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Politeama Greco in Lecce, Carnegie Hall, Wexford Festival, the Berlin Staatsoper, the Berlin Philharmonie and the Stuttgart Philharmonie, and the Munich Gasteig among others.

He has sung with such distinguished artists as Fiorenza Cossotto, Piero Cappuccilli, Carlo Bergonzi, Elena Obratzova, Giuseppe Giacomini, Grace Bumbry, Rolando Panerai, Aprile Millo, Dimitri Hvorotovsky, Cecilia Bartoli, Ruggiero Raimondi, Lando Bartolini, Alfredo Kraus, Luciano Pavarotti, Leo Nucci, Silvano Carroli and Giorgio Zancanaro. His conductors have included Riccardo Muti, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Ghennadij Rhozdestvenskij, Bruno Bartoletti Alfredo Silipigni, Anton Coppola, Angelo Campori, Maurizio Arena, Donato Renzetti, Robin Stapleton, Mario Bernardi, Alain Guingal, Vladimir Jurovski, Daniele Gatti, Richard Buckley, Eve Queler, Jan Latham Koenig, Stewart Kellogg, Enrico de Mori, Patrick Fourniller, Niksa Bareza, Gabor Otvos, Marco Guidarini, Julian Kovatchev and Paolo Arrivabeni.

Studies: He first studied voice with Lina Narducci at the Montreal Conservatory of Music. In 1986, he moved to Italy and studied first with renowned baritone Gino Bechi and then with Arrigo Pola (Pavarotti’s teacher). Other teachers have included such legends as Franco Corelli, Guiseppe Valdengo, Gianni Raimondi and Carlo Bergonzi. Manrico now coaches with Canadian tenor Ermanno Mauro.

Competitions:

1988 - Winner of the Pavarotti International Vocal Competition in Philadelphia.

1987- Finalist of the Verdi International Voice Competition in Bussetto.

Recordings:

-Il Campiello by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (Benelli, Devinu, D’Arcangelo), Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Comunale G. Verdi in Trieste, dir. Niksa Bareza, Ricordi Fonit Cetra

-Opern Gala – Festival der jungen Stimmen, Radio Symphony and Ochestra Berlin, dir. Richard Buckley, Koch International Records

- A Night at the Opera with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Deutsch Symphonieorchester Berlin, dir. Jun Märkl, Schwann MusicaMundi

- Christmas Concert at Ste. Sixte, 2006 Orchestre Francois Perreault

Career Highlights:

1989 - Debut as Figaro in Barbiere di Siviglia with Cecilia Bartoli – Teatro Comunale di Modena. In the same year he participated in the Jungen Stimmen Gala at the Berlin Philharmonie with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra. This concert was recorded and broadcast on RIAS TV.

1990 - Catania: Trovatore (Millo, Cossotto, Bartolini), Guglielmo Ratcliff (Panerai, Suliotis)
Arena di Verona - Carmen (Bumbry, Zancanaro)
Regio di Parma - Le Trouvere and Alzira for the Verdi Festival followed by La Scala di Milano - Alyssa by Ravel
 

1991 - La Scala - Lodoiska by Cherubini (Muti, Devia, Corbelli, Moser)
Taormina Festival and Trapani’s Luglio Musicale Festival - Cavalleria Rusticana (Cappuccilli, Campori) and Carmen (A. Guingal)
Then Trovatore at the Berlin Staatsoper, Macbeth in St. Etienne, Il Campiello (recorded by Ricordi with Devinu, Benelli, D'Arcangelo) in Trieste. Concert at the Teatro G. Verdi in Trieste with renowned mezzosoprano Fiorenza Cossotto. Oratoire de Noël by Saint Saens in Prague.

1992 - Concert at the Gasteig Philharmonie in Munich, Rigoletto, Traviata, Trovatore at the Hungarian State Opera, I Rantzau by Mascagni in Livorno, Esclarmonde by Massenet in Turin (Pertusi, Pendatchanska), Trovatore in Cordoba and Santiago de Compostela opposite Obratzova.

1993- Maestro Riccardo Muti engages him to sing Canio in Pagliacci at La Scala alternating with Pavarotti, then he sings Poliuto in Bergamo with Gianandrea Gavazzeni conducting, Aida in Padua, then he tours with Arena di Verona in Hamburg, Kiel, Bielefeld, Dusseldorf, Bremen, Stuttgart singing Otello and Trovatore as well as at the Gasteig Philharmonie Munich directed by Koenig. At Bern Opera he debuts Turiddu in Cavalleria Rusticana, repeating the role in Cagliari opposite Silvano Carroli.

1994 - Gavazzeni calls him to sing Pagliacci and Tabarro in Genova, then Carmen in Pisa, Lucca, Mantua, Bologna, Turin (Mauceri, Uria Monzon), and at Messina and Opera South Ireland. He sings a series of concerts in Ireland at Dublin, Limerick, and Cork.

1995 - He sings Guglielmo Ratcliff by Mascagni directed by Del Monaco in Livorno (Mascagni’s hometown), Pisa and Lucca. He performs La Passione by Malipiero with Teatro La Fenice in Venice for the 900th Anniversary of St. Mark’s Cathedral.

1996 - Continuing his great success as a tenor, Tedeschi performed Trovatore in Savona, La Spezia and also in a new production in Madrid. He toured Korea giving concerts and Master Classes in six different cities.

1997 - He sang Lucia di Lammermoor and Aida in Bulgaria, Carmen at the Teatro Politeama Greco in Lecce, and made his American debut in Tosca at Tampa Opera.

1998 - Then he sang the world premier of the opera La Lupa by Marco Tutino at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Turandot in Orlando, Pagliacci in Treviso, Rovigo, and Bassano del Grappa. He performed Pagliacci in front of 30000 people at the Ahoy Stadium in Rotterdam and at the Sports Palace in Antwerpen.

1999 - He made his Canadian debut as Cavaradossi in Opera Lyra's Tosca at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.

2000 - He sang the role of Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly with Orchestra London conducted by Mario Bernardi, folled by Verdi’s Requiem with La Société Philharmonique de Montreal, Carmen at Cork Opera,

2001 - Aida with Operama in Sydney, Canberra in Australia , Fanciulla del West in Lucca, Pisa, Bergamo, Ascoli, Livorno , Samson et Dalila at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genova.

2002 - Adriana Lecouvreur at Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania, Tosca in Tokyo and Yokohama (tours with Teatro Comunale di Bologna)  where he alternates with José Cura, and Il Giuramento by Mercadante at Wexford Festival in Ireland.

2003 - he made his debut in Otello at Opera Tampa. With the New Jersey State Opera he accomplishes the feat of singing both Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci in the same evening with great success.

2004 - He reprised his Otello for the Shanghai Opera in a La Fenice production which is seen on TV by 50 million Chinese. Fanciulla del West follows with Opera Orchestra New York at Carnegie Hall. In Prague, he sang Cavalleria Rusticana with Eva Urbanova and a concert at the Spanish Hall for the Czech president. He debuted in the role of Jacopo in Verdi’s I Due Foscari with Lyric Opera in Dublin.

2005 - He appeared as Otello at Teatro Sao Carlos in Lisbon and in December sang a series of Verdi concerts with the Copenhagen Philharmonic in Denmark.

2006 - He performed Pagliacci at the Shanghai Opera and in May he sang Don Alvaro in Forza del Destino with the Lithuanian Opera in Vilnius. In December, he recorded a Christmas concert at Ste. Sixte.

2007 – He performed the Verdi Requiem at Carnegie Hall for the 50th anniversary of the death of Toscanini. In April he is in Ottawa for Opera Lyra’s production of Otello. He reprises Turiddu in Cavalleria Rusticana in July and August at the Settimana Italiana Festival in Montreal and Sherbrooke. He returns to Italy in November to sing the opera Marcella by Giordano in the composer’s hometown Foggia and San Severo. In December he sings Pollione in Norma at the Teatro Cilea in Reggio Calabria.

2008 - In January, he sang Alvaro in Forza del Destino with Knoxville Opera. May saw him in concert with the Cairo Symphony in a Puccini concert in Egypt celebrating the composer’s 150th anniversary. In September he sang at Destinatioin Opera Gala with the New Jersey State opera at the 6000 seat Ocean Grove Auditorium.

2009 - sees him sing Cavalleria Rusticana and Mario Lanza Tribute Concerts for Settimana Italiana in Montreal. Upcoming engagements include Manrico in Il Trovatore in Bulgaria, Des Grieux in Manon Lescaut in Austria and Radames in Aida for Kiel Opera.