Giorgi Manoshvili

The young Georgian bass Giorgi Manoshvili studied at the Tbilisi State Conservatory and began his international career with appearances at the Maison de l’Unesco in Paris, the Berlin Philharmonie, London’s Barbican Centre, the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, the Taiwanese National Taichung Theatre and the Port River Festival in Dublin. In 2021 he made his acclaimed Italian debut as Lord Sidney in Il viaggio a Reims at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro. Since then, he has returned there regularly, and has also made regular appearances at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, the Teatro Massimo di Palermo and the Arena di Verona.

Highlights of the 2024/25 season include appearances in Attila at the Teatro San Carlo, Tosca at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Mustafà (L’italiana in Algeri) at the Rossini Opera Festival, Sir Giorgio (I puritani) at the Tyrolean Festival Erl, Lord Sidney in a new production of Il viaggio a Reims at the Leipzig Opera, the four villains in Les Contes d’Hoffmann at the Lithuanian National Opera in Vilnius, Assur (Semiramide) at the Opéra de Rouen Normandie and at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Verdi’s Messa da Requiem under Daniel Harding in Rome and on tour to Granada and Seville, his debut with Cecilia Bartoli at the Salzburg Whitsun Festival and Escamillo (Carmen) and the King (Aida) at the Arena di Verona. Future engagements will take him to the Hamburg State Opera, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and the Metropolitan Opera, New York.

Other previous engagements have included Bianca e Falliero in Pesaro, Tancredi at the Opéra de Rouen Normandie, La bohème in Montpellier, Angelotti (Tosca) at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Prince Gremin (Eugene Onegin) in Palermo, Attila in Parma, Monk (Don Carlo) in Naples, Musorgsky’s A Night On the Bare Mountain (original version with soloist and chorus) at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Camille Erlanger’s L’Aube rouge and Fromental Halévy’s La tempesta at the Wexford Festival Opera, Verdi’s Messa da Requiem at the Cologne Philharmonie and Colline in a production of La bohème designed for television at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma.