Teaching Career
He regularly holds seminars and master classes on singing and style. His taught at the Academy for Young Singers affiliated with the La Scala Opera, under the directorship of the world renown soprano, Leyla Gencer, then at the Accademia Internazionale della Musica (International Music Academy) in Milan, and the Accademia Donizetti in Masate, Italy, where he was invited to teach vocal technique. He is also a guest teacher outside of Italy, teaching interpretation, staging scenes, and full-length operas for young singers. He delivered the keynote address and for the 20th National Professional Development Conference, sponsored by the New Zealand Association of Teachers of Singing (NEWZATS) at Queen Margaret College in Wellington, New Zealand and he took part in numerous discussions as guest speaker.
While in New Zealand Manno gave master classes at the Universities of Otago and Waikato as well as private lessons. Maestro Manno is a frequent adjudicator for vocal performance competitions around the world.
Recently M.o Manno has taught English diction to the prestigious chorus of the La Scala Opera for the La Scala debut of Benjamin Britten's “Death in Venice” (having already done so at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa) and was immediately reconfirmed for the world premiere of Luca Francesconi's new opera “Quartett”.
The students of Vincenzo Manno can be heard regularly around the world in the main opera houses, recordings, concert halls, radios and televisions.
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