American soprano Rebecca Manseau will be seen during the 2024/2025 season giving her concert debut at the Slovak State Opera and returning as a guest with the ensemble of the Landesbühnen Sachsen in the productions of DER FREISCHÜTZ, LE VILLI and DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER under the batons of Hans-Peter Preu, Ekkehard Klemm, and Tim Fluch. She makes her role debut as Angelica (SUOR ANGELICA) at the Springer Opera House in Columbus, Georgia, USA, with the Schwob School of Music, conducted by Paul Hostetter. She will also be seen as Tatiana (EUGENE ONEGIN) and Agathe (DER FREISCHÜTZ) in scene performances at the Schwob School of Music and in recital in Berlin, Germany with pianist Yury Ilinov.

In the 2023/2024 season, Ms. Manseau gave her role debut as Fiordiligi (COSÌ FAN TUTTE), conducted by Ben Smolder, and covered Madame Lidoine (DIALOGUES OF THE CARMELITES), conducted by John Massaro, for the mainstage productions of the Festival of International Opera at the Teatro Bramante in Urbania, Italy. In spring 2024, Ms. Manseau delivered a debut recital performance of Richard Strauss’s Vier letzte Lieder. Ms. Manseau performed Contessa Almaviva (LE NOZZE DI FIGARO) in the Schwob School of Music’s opera scenes and was also seen in the opera outreach program as the Giant’s Wife in the Gilbert and Sullivan pastiche JACK AND THE BEANSTALK by John Davies. She was a featured soloist in the Kaleidoscope Concert series at the Bill Heard Theatre in Columbus, Georgia, as well as in a guitar and voice chamber music concert at the Columbus Botanical Garden.

Previously, Ms. Manseau debuted with the Landesbühnen Sachsen in the new production of Carl Maria von Weber’s DER FREISCHÜTZ at the Felsenbühne Rathen under the direction of Manuel Schöbel. Recital highlights span the Liederabend “Homesickness and Memory” with Dvořák’s Biblical Songs and selected songs by Rachmaninoff and Richard Strauss with pianist David Wishart in Berlin, Germany and an interfaith musical presentation of synagogal songs as part of the lecture series “Wir haben die Wahl” with organist Heidi Fritz.

Concert engagements have included Fauré’s Requiem, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb, Delibes’s Messe brève. Ms. Manseau made her professional debut as Najade in a production of Richard Strauss’s ARIADNE AUF NAXOS at the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She has appeared in masterclasses with Eva Randova, Eva Mei, Ernesto Palacio, Jay Hunter Morris, Christopher Pfund, and Filippo Ciabatti.

Ms. Manseau is a winner of state, regional, and international competitions, including the Slovak State Opera Prize of the International Singing Competition of Gabriela Beňačková, GA NATS, Southeast Regional NATS, the  Tommy Trotter Competition and Scholarship Competition of the Atlanta Opera Guild, the Atlanta Music Club’s Scholarship Competition, the New York International Music Competition, as well as the Charleston International Romantic Music Competition and the Euterpe Music Awards. She was a semi-finalist for the "Musica Sacra" competition in Rome as well as a Georgia District competitor in the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition. In 2024, Ms. Manseau was selected as one of three national recipients for the NATS Dillard Scholar Award.

Ms. Manseau holds Bachelor of Arts degrees in Politics and German from Sewanee: The University of the South, and a Masters of Arts in Political Science from the Freie Universität zu Berlin. She has studied privately with soprano Martina Rüping in Berlin, Germany, and is obtaining her Masters in Vocal Performance with tenor Dr. Joshua May at the Schwob School of Music at Columbus State University in Georgia, USA. Ms. Manseau is the recipient of Fulbright and DAAD study grants.