Johannes MannovProf. Johannes Mannov was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. He studied singing at the Music academies in Freiburg and Karlsruhe, Germany. He had his operatic debut with the opera house in Kassel Germany, and has since performed in opera houses around the globe: New Zealand, Australia, South America, USA, Israel, Turkey, and throughout Europe. He has collaborated with renowned conductors such as Mstislav Rostropowitch, Lord Yehudi Menuhin, Sir Neville Marriner, Gary Bertini, Herbert Blomstedt, Christopher Hogwood, Kent Nagano, Toni Papano, René Jacobs, Phillippe Herreweghe, Thomas Hengelbrock, Armin Jordan, Jeffrey Tate, Peter Schreier.  As an opera singer prof. Johannes Mannov has performed in Hamburg and Berlin (State Operas), Brussels La Monaie, Paris La Bastille, Royal Opera Copenhagen, New Israeli Opera, San Diego and Cincinnati Opera, Wellington New Zealand and in Santiago, Chile. His repertoire includes roles such as Don Giovanni, Leporello, Guglielmo, Figaro, Count Almaviva, Billy Budd, Evgeni Onegin, Papageno, Marcello, Nick Shadow, Kurwenal, Wolfram and Golaud in productions by Peter Konwitchny, David Pountney, Kasper Holten,   Francesca Zambello and Götz Friedrich. With his vast lied and oratorio repertoire, he has been invited to the main music centres of Europe including The Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Berliner Philharmonie, London Barbican Centre, Tonhalle Zürich, Palao Musicao Barcelona, Paris Theatre de Camps Ellysiée and Cité de la Musique, and to many Festivals around the world such as Perth, Edinborough, Luzern, Istanbul, Schleswig Holstein, Innsbruck, Brussels, Milano, Madrid and Venice. He has personally collaborated with composers such as Steen Pade, Poul Ruders, Luigi Nono and Hans Werner Henze on the performance of vocal music.Johannes Mannov works frequently with musicians performing on historical instruments. He has collaborated with Musica Antiqua Cölln, Das Freiburger Barockorchester, R.I.A.S. Berlin, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, La Petite Bande, The Festetics Quartet, La Chapelle Royale and the Balthasar Neumann Chorus and -Ensemble. The fruits of much of this work has been recorded and is availiable on CD. He has taught voice at the Universität der Künste, Berlin, at the Musikhochschule in Kassel and at The Royal Opera Academy, Copenhagen. He currently holds a position as a voice teacher at The Royal Conservatory of Music, Copenhagen, at the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts Southern Denmark, Odense and is visiting professor at the Academy of Music in Nürnberg.