[1] Manacorda founded in 1997, with colleagues and Abbado, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra (MCO), for which he has served as concertmaster[2][3] and as vice president.
[4] He assisted Marc Minkowski in a new production of Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann at the Opéra National de Lyon.
After several seasons at the Teatro Dal Verme in Milan, he moved in 2010 to the Kammerakademie Potsdam [de],[1] and has also been chief conductor of Het Gelders Orkest [nl] from 2011.
[5] In 2011, Manacorda began in collaboration with Damiano Michieletto a project at La Fenice in Venice to present the Mozart trilogy of operas after da Ponte, followed by his Die Zauberflöte.
[1] A review noted that he realized both the lyric finesse and delicacy of changing emotions ("lyrische Finesse und Delikatesse vieler Passagen für die wechselnden Gefühlslagen") and the power of star wars ("da tobte der Sternensturm") including the failure of the mission ("samt Scheitern des Raumschiffs"), without the empty noise often associated with grand opera ("ohne leeres Dröhnen alter 'Grand Opéra'“).