July 24 Garden Concert – Castle Village

Described as a “lovely soprano voice with a great deal of power as well as lyricism” (Opera News), soprano Clara Lisle was most recently seen as Suzel in L’Amico Fritz with Teatro Grattacielo and the Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice. Other operatic credits include Governess, The Turn of the Screw, Tatiana, Eugene Onegin, Musetta, La Bohème, Eurydice, Orpheus in the Underworld, and Marguerite, Faust. In addition to the traditional repertoire, she’s performed the role of Madeline Usher in Philip Glass’ The Fall of the House of Usher and was in the premiere cast of Onsite Opera’s Rhoda and the Fossil Hunt. Clara holds a Master’s degree and Professional Studies Diploma from Mannes The New School of Music and a Bachelor’s degree in vocal performance with Honors from Trinity Conservatoire of Music, London. She can be seen as Mélisande in dell’Arte Opera’s Pelléas et Mélisande this August.

Described as a performer who “gives himself completely to the singing” (Unser Lübeck), French tenor Morgan Manifacier is enjoying an international career as an interpreter of repertoire spanning from the Renaissance to the newest of contemporary music. Notable opera roles include the title role of Pygmalion (Rameau), Chevalier de La Force in Dialogues des Carmélites, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Sultan Soliman in Zaide, and Agenore in Il re pastore. He holds a DMA from Stony Brook University and has performed with the Oxford Lieder Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, dell’Arte Opera Ensemble, and Amherst Music Festival. He will appear with dell’Arte Opera this summer as the title role in Pelléas et Mélisande.