Manuela Custer

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 C