Manuela Kriscak

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Biografia/Biography

(English version below)

Nata a Trieste si è diplomata in pianoforte e in canto al Conservatorio Tartini. La sua carriera inizia dopo aver vinto il Concorso Sperimentale Belli di Spoleto debuttando nel ruolo di Musetta in La Bohème di Puccini e nel ruolo di Rosalinde nel Pipistrello di Strauss.

La sua attività continua cantando diversi ruoli tra i quali:
Papaghena, Zerlina, Susanna, Contessa, Fiordiligi( Mozart); Adina, (Donizetti); Micaela( Bizet); Nannetta, Violetta, Gilda,( Verdi); Musetta, Mimi, Lauretta, Suor Angelica, Liù( Puccini); Monica( Menotti); Gretel(Humperdinck); Sophia, Giulia (Rossini); Kristina ( Janacek ); Hanna Glavary( Lehar),,,

Sotto la direzione di:
Riccardo Muti, Claudio Abbado, Spiros Argiris, A. Oestman, Gabor Otvos, Zoltan Pesko, Andrew Davis, Marco Zambelli, Jan Claude Malgoire,Loris Voltolini,Tiziano Forcolin, Tiziano Severini, Stefano Giaroli,Lu Ja, Hans Graf, Donato Renzetti, Gudni A.Emilsson, Corrado Rovaris, Jader Bignamini, Giacomo Sagripanti, Matteo Beltrami…

Con i registi:
Pierluigi Pizzi, Giancarlo Menotti, Stefano Vizioli, N. Lehnhoff, Lorenzo Mariani, Italo Nunziata, Simona Marchini, Katia Ricciarelli, Gilbert Deflò, Pierre Constant, Beni Montresor, Giulio Ciabatti, David Bartholomew, Cesare Lievi…

Nei Teatri:
La Scala of Milano, Opera Comique of Paris, Bellini of Catania, Verdi of Trieste, Rendano of Cosenza, National Opera and ballet Lubjana, Opera du Rennes, Comunale di Ferrara, Teatro Grande of Brescia, Teatro Sociale di Como, Opera di Rhin in Strasburg, Teatro Fraschini of Pavia, Teatro Ponchielli of Cremona, National Sejong di Seul, Teatro di Cagliari, Glyndebourne Opera, , Liceu of Barcellona, Sao Carlos di Lisbona,

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Biography

Manuela Kriscak was born in Trieste where she received her diploma in piano and voice at the Tartini Conservatory.
Her career began after winning Concorso Sperimentale Belli di Spoleto, with the roles of Musetta in Puccini's Bohème and Rosalinde in Strauss' Fledermaus. In 1993 she was invited by Maestro Spiros Argiris to the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania to perform the role of Zerlina in Mozart's , and later that same season the role of Monica in Gian Carlo Menotti's Medium, directed by the composer himself.
She also sang Kristina in Janacek's Makropulos with L'Opera National du Rhin in Strasbourg, at the National Theatre San Carlo in Lisbon, the Glyndebourne Festival under the baton of Sir Andrew Davis, at the Royal Albert Hall in London and at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona.
Ms Kriscak has performed many Mozart roles including Zerlina in a new production of Don Giovanni in Maastricht with Opera Zuid and later at the Teatro Comunale Ferrara under Maestro Claudio Abbado, Susanna in Nozze di Figaro with Opera de Rennes, and Papagena in The Magic Flute at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste. Recentely she sung Countess
in Nozze di Figaro in the United States and Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte in Rotterdam Opera House and in tournée in Holand and Belgium.
She made her debut at Teatro alla Scala with Maestro Riccardo Muti in Gluck's Armida singing Le Plaisir, sang Gretel in Hansel und Gretel by Humperdinck at the Festival di Todi
and Wagner’s Opera Die Feen at the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, where she interpreted the role of Farzana , and Grimgerde in Walkure at the Bellini of Catania.
Her repertoire encompasses roles from baroque operas such as Marzia in Vivaldi's in Utica (Operà Comique in Paris) and Ergilla in Paisiello's L'idolo Cinese to Rossini roles such as Madama Cortese in Viaggio a Reims, Sophia in Bruschino (Slovene National Theatre Ljubljana) and Giulia in Scala di Seta as well as Micaela in Bizet's (Festival Fiesole in Florence) and the Puccini roles Musetta (Bohème in the Teatro Nuovo in Spoleto), Lauretta (Schicchi) and Liù , which she performed at the National Theater at the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts in under the direction of Katia Ricciarelli. She has also sung Adina in Elisir d'Amore many times.
She sang the role of Violetta in La Traviata with Fargo Moorhead Opera and with National Opera of Ljubliana .She sang Monica in the Medium of G. Menotti and Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi of Puccini a Trieste and Gilda in Rigoletto of Verdi to the National Opera of Ljubliana.
Gala Concert at Musikverein in Vienna. Concert Teatro Josè Lucio da Silva in Portos with Orch. Do Norte dir.J.Ferrera Lobo. Concert Contemporary Music Festival in Trieste with
Louise Sibourd and Concert Contemporary Music Festival Trieste Gauverky. Carmina Burana at MUsikverein in Klagenfurt.