On the operatic stage, Manifacier has been heard in many leading roles including the title role in Pygmalion by Rameau, Pelléas in Pelléas et Mélisande, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Sultan Soliman in Zaide, Chevalier de la Force in Dialogues des Carmélites, Agenore in Il re pastore, Siavash in the world premiere of Niloufar Nourbakhsh’s We the Innumerable, Sorcerer in Dido and Æneas, Dr. Blind in Die Fledermaus, and Borsa in Rigoletto. Morgan has also been involved in the creation and performance of several operas by contemporary composers, including the roles of Man in Healing by Ed Rosenberg III, and Ararat in January 19, 2007 by Joseph Bohigian.

His polished interpretations of diverse repertoire have brought him accolades from several competitions. He is a two-time winner of The American Prize in Voice (2021 & 2022) and recipient of the Jere H. Brophy Scholar Award from the S. Livingston Mather Vocal Competition. Manifacier also received the 2022 Duo Prize at the John Kerr Awards for English Song with pianist Corinne Penner. He was a recent finalist of the Opera Mississippi John Alexander National Vocal Competition and the Mary Trueman Art Song Vocal Competition (canceled due to Covid 19).

Manifacier is a proud alumnus of numerous international training programs, which include the Oxford Lieder Festival Mastercourse, The Fellowship of the Song with Cincinnati Song Initiative, the Franz-Schubert-Institut in Baden bei Wien Austria, the Art-of-Song Fellowship with the Toronto Summer Music Festival, SongFest at Colburn as a Professional Fellow, OperaFest at the Sewanee Music Center (Fellow Artist), Martina Arroyo’s Role Performance Program in New York, the International Baroque Academy at Musiktheater Bavaria, and the Baroque Opera Workshop at Queen’s College.

He holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Stony Brook University, where he received the Staller Scholar Award (full-tuition scholarship) and studied under the tutelage of Randall Scarlata and Jeremy Little. Other major voice teachers and coaches include Robert C. White Jr., Neal Harrelson, Timothy Long, Daniel Beckwith, and Roger Malouf. Manifacier is the grateful recipient of several career grants from the Anna Sosenko Assist Trust and The Performing Arts Consortium.

A committed and passionate educator, Manifacier is highly sought-after as a teacher, coach, and clinician. He currently serves as Assistant Professor of Voice at Baylor University, where he teaches applied voice, French diction, and song literature. Prior to this appointment, he served as Lecturer of Music in Voice at the University of Nevada - Reno, where he taught applied voice, opera literature, lyric diction, and vocal pedagogy. He has been invited to present lectures and teach masterclasses at several universities internationally, including Temple University, Gachon University (Seoul, South Korea), Kyoto City University of Arts (Kyoto, Japan), Concordia College (Moorhead, MN), the University of Mobile (Mobile, AL), Trinity College, and Stony Brook University. As a French-repertoire coach, he was recently invited to work with singers of the OperaFest program at the Sewanee Music Center and to coach voice-piano duos at the AlpenKammerMusik Festival in Austria. He also maintains an active private voice studio.

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