{"id":6851,"date":"2026-04-16T16:20:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T14:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abao.org\/?post_type=artist&#038;p=6851"},"modified":"2026-06-29T13:12:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T11:12:34","slug":"manel-esteve","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/www.abao.org\/en\/artista\/manel-esteve\/","title":{"rendered":"Manel Esteve"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Born in Barcelona in 1978, Manel Esteve studied music at the Municipal Conservatoire and singing with his father, baritone Vicen\u00e7 Esteve. He furthered his training with artists including Jaume Aragall, Joan Pons, Bonaldo Giaiotti, Eduard Gim\u00e9nez, Carlos Chausson and Rolando Panerai, and has received awards at the Pedro Lavirgen and Manuel Ausensi international competitions. In 1999 he made his debut at the Gran Teatre del Liceu as Uberto in <em>La serva padrona<\/em>, and the following year sang Papageno in <em>La petita flauta m\u00e0gica<\/em>. Since then he has built a solid career at theatres and festivals including the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Teatro Real Madrid, Teatro de la Zarzuela, Palau de la M\u00fasica Catalana, ABAO Bilbao Opera, Teatro de la Maestranza, \u00d3pera de Oviedo, Palau de les Arts, Teatro Arriaga, the San Sebasti\u00e1n Music Fortnight and the Castell de Peralada Festival. He has worked with conductors such as Renato Palumbo, V\u00edctor Pablo P\u00e9rez, Sebastian Weigle, Josep Pons, Paolo Carignani, Michele Mariotti, Ivor Bolton, Giampaolo Bisanti, Riccardo Frizza and Giacomo Sagripanti, and with stage directors including Emilio Sagi, Terry Gilliam, Christof Loy, Giancarlo del Monaco, Laurent Pelly, Mario Gas, Olivier Py, Deborah Warner, David McVicar, Richard Jones and Damiano Michieletto. His repertoire includes works by Rossini, Donizetti, Mozart, Puccini, Massenet, Giordano, Britten, Offenbach and Pergolesi, as well as zarzuela.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5619,"template":"","class_list":["post-6851","artist","type-artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Manel Esteve - ABAO-OLBE<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abao.org\/en\/artista\/manel-esteve\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Manel Esteve - ABAO-OLBE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Born in Barcelona in 1978, Manel Esteve studied music at [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.abao.org\/en\/artista\/manel-esteve\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"ABAO-OLBE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-06-29T11:12:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.abao.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Manel-Esteve-Madrid-01-scaled.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1707\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"2560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.abao.org\\\/en\\\/artista\\\/manel-esteve\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.abao.org\\\/en\\\/artista\\\/manel-esteve\\\/\",\"name\":\"Manel Esteve - 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