During the 2025-26 season at HGO, Benjamin Manis conducts the Butler HGO Studio’s production, Of Mice and Men.  He last appeared at HGO conducting the mainstage production of Tosca in 2023. As a member of HGO’s music staff from 2019-2022, Manis conducted El Milagro del Recuerdo (2022, 2019 world premiere); outdoor performances of Romeo and Juliet (2022); The Snowy Day (2021); Carmen (2021); Rigoletto (2019); the world premiere of Marian’s Song (2020); and the subsequent HGO Digital filmed version and Miller Outdoor Theatre performances of the same work. Elsewhere during the 2025-26 season, Manis returns to conduct The Barber of Seville for San Francisco Opera and debuts with the Savannah Philharmonic and Richmond Symphony. In the 2024-25 season, Manis made his San Francisco Opera debut conducting Carmen; led the SFO Orchestra and SFO’s Adler Fellows in a concert of arias; and returned to Utah Opera for Madame Butterfly and Rice University for John Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles. Other recent debuts include the Rhode Island Philharmonic and the Grand Teton Music Festival, where Manis was appointed Resident Conductor by Music Director Donald Runnicles. In 2023, he was named associate conductor of Utah Symphony. Manis has served as cover conductor for the St. Louis and Dallas Symphonies, working with conductors David Robertson and Stéphane Denève, and is a four-time winner of the Solti Foundation U.S. Career Assistance Award, in 2019, 2022, 2023, and 2024.