Shridar Mani

Shridar is currently the company manager and co-artistic director of The Opera People, a Singapore based opera company that redefine the experience of opera for live audiences and online through multidisciplinary collaboration.

Over the past decade, he has worked at Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay and The Arts House Limited in music, dance, theatre and the literary arts on festivals such as Singapore International Festival of Arts, Kalaa Utsavam-Indian Festival of Arts, da:ns Festival, A Tapestry of Sacred Music at the Esplanade, and LumiNation. He is also the co-founder of local arts initiative Other Tongues – A Festival of Minority Voices.

He graduated from The University of Chicago with a Bachelors in Music (Hon.) where he was awarded the Leonard B. Meyer Prize for his undergraduate thesis and was a Jeff Metcalf Fellow with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 2010-2011.