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          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 Chigiana in Siena with Vivaldi’s Giustino and Arminio under Alan Curtis, at Martina Franca’s Festival with Donizetti’s La Zingara, at the Edinburgh International Festival with Rossini’s Zelmira, at Verona’s Teatro Filarmonico with Il Barbiere di Siviglia opposite Juan Diego Florez, at the Rome Opera with Faust, at Paris’ Theatre des Champs-Elysèes with Vivaldi’s Orlando Finto pazzo and Donizetti’s Anna Bolena, at Seville’s La Maestranza as Ottavia in Incoronazione di Poppea under Rousset directed by Graham Vick, at the Rossini Opera Festival with Il Vero omaggio, Le nozze di Teti e Peleo, La Gazzetta directed by Dario Fo and La Gazza ladra, at the Royal Festival Hall and at Theatre Royal Drury Lane with Donizetti’s Pia de’ Tolomei and Il diluvio universale, at Opéra de Lyon with Anna Bolena, at La Scala in Milan with Debussy’s La demoiselle élue under Sir John Eliot Gardiner and Cavalli’s Didone.

          Ms. Custer’s discography includes: La rimembranza, La partenza, Il primo dolce affanno, L’esule di Granata, Pia de’ Tolomei, Elisabetta regina d’Inghilterra, Zelmira, Il diluvio universale and Maria Stuarda for Opera Rara, Juditha Triumphans for Warner Fonit, Arminio for Virgin Classics.

          Her latest engagements have included: Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari, at the Michigan Opera Theatre in Detroit, at Teatro La Fenice in Venice, at Teatro Verdi in Sassari, Vivaldi’s Bajazet at the Wiener Konzerthaus and in Yokohama under Fabio Biondi with Europa Galante, Italiana in Algeri at the Opèra de Toulon, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle in Malaga, Le Mans, Nantes and Angers with M° Aldo Ceccato, Tutino’s Le bel indiferent in Turin, Cavalli’s La Didone under Fabio Biondi and Galuppi’s Olimpiade under Andrea Marcon for La Fenice in Venice, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony under Fabio Luisi at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome and in Florence under Jesus Lopez-Cobos, Verdi’s Messa da Requiem in Milan and Malaga under Aldo Ceccato, Garcia’s Il Califfo di Bagdad at the Granada Festival, Teatro La Zarzuela in Madrid and Palau de la Musica in Barcelona under Christophe Rousset (with a live cd recording), Falstaff under Gianandrea Noseda for the opening of the season of Turin’s Teatro Regio, where she returned for Salome under Noseda directed by Robert Carsen, Les Contes d'Hoffmann and Rossini's Tancredi directed by Yannis Kokkos, Monteverdi’s Orfeo in Savona and Turin with Academia Montis Regalis, Donizetti’s Anna Bolena directed by Graham Vick in Palermo, Rossini's Guillaume Tell (Hedwige) conducted by Paolo Olmi and Vivaldi’s Orlando furioso (Alcina) at the Amsterdam Konzertgebouw and at Santa Cecilia in Rome with Venice Baroque Orchestra and Andrea Marcon, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle in Leipzig and London with M° Riccardo Chailly (to be released on dvd Euroarts), Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffmann in Turin conducted by Emmanuel Villaume and Rossini's Italiana in Algeri at the Dallas Opera, at the Gran Teatro in Cordoba and at Teatro Comunale in Florence, Vivaldi's Juditha Triumphans with Andrea Marcon and Venice Baroque Orchestra in Amsterdam and Baden-Baden, Falstaff in Bilbao, Faust (Siebel) in Palma de Mallorca, Il diluvio universale (Ada) in St. Gallen.

          Her future engagements include: Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Rosina) in Abu Dhabi, at Teatro La Fenice in Venice, at the Quincena Musical de San Sebastian, at Auditorio de San Lorenzo en el Escorial, Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea (Ottavia) conducted by Antonio Florio at Teatro Villamarta in Jerez and at Teatro Calderòn in Valladolid, Verdi's Messa da Requiem at the Dallas Opera.

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Vincenzo Bellini
Capuleti e Montecchi (Romeo)
Zaira (Nerestano)               

Benjamin Britten
The rape of Lucretia (Lucretia)

Leo Delibes
Lakmè (Malika)

Claude Debussy
Pelleas et Melisande (Genevieve)

Gaetano Donizetti   
Pia de’ Tolomei (Rodrigo)
Anna Bolena (Smeton)
Lucrezia Borgia (Maffio Orsini)
Linda di Chamonix (Pierrotto)
Maria di Rohan (Armando)

Christoph Willibald Gluck
Orfeo (Orfeo)

Charles Gounod
Faust (Siebel)

Georg Friederich Händel   
Agrippina (Agrippina, Ottone)
Giulio Cesare (Cornelia, Sesto, Tolomeo)
Ariodante (Ariodante)
Serse (Serse)
Semele (Juno, Ino)
Alcina (Ruggiero)
Arminio (Arminio)
Giustino (Giustino)
Orlando Furioso (Alcina)

Franz Joseph Haydn
Il mondo della Luna (Lisetta)

Pietro Mascagni
L’amico Fritz (Beppe)

Jules Massenet
Werther (Charlotte)
Don Quichotte (Dulcinèe)

Giacomo Meyerbeer   
Les Huguenots (Urbain)
Il Crociato in Egitto (Felicia)

Claudio Monteverdi
L’incoronazione di Poppea (Poppea, Ottavia)
Il ritorno di Ulisse in patria (Penelope)
Orfeo (Proserpina , Messaggera)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mitridate re di Ponto (Farnace)
La clemenza di Tito (Sesto)

Jacques Offenbach   
Les Contes d’Hoffmann (Niklausse)
Orfeo all’inferno (Opinione pubblica)
La Perichole (Perichole)
La grande Duchesse de Gerolstein (Duchesse)

Giacomo Puccini
Madama Butterfly (Suzuki)

Henry Purcell
Dido and Aeneas (Dido)

Maurice Ravel
L’enfant et les sortileges (L’enfant)

Gioachino Rossini
Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rosina)
La Cenerentola (Angelina)
L’italiana in Algeri (Isabella)
Zelmira (Emma)
La gazza ladra (Pippo)
Ermione (Andromaca)
Il viaggio a Reims (Melibea)
Tancredi

Johann Strauss jr
Die Fledermaus (Orlowskij)

Piotr Ilic Tchaikowsky
Evgenij Onegin (Olga)
Pikovaja Dama (Pauline)

Ambroise Thomas
Mignon (Mignon)

Giuseppe Verdi
Falstaff (Meg)

Antonio Vivaldi
La Griselda (Griselda)
Tamerlano (Irene, Andronico)
Orlando Furioso (Alcina)
Giustino (Anastasio)

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