Richard Manning was a singer represented in the Pristine catalogue through the Metropolitan Opera’s 1945 broadcast of Verdi’s Rigoletto with Jussi Björling.

The performance places him in a cast with Leonard Warren, Bidú Sayão, Martha Lipton, Norman Cordon and Cesare Sodero.

Because wider public biographical detail is limited, this note is kept close to the recording evidence and its Met Verdi context.

This page gives a securely identified supporting artist a compact marker in the Björling-Rigoletto strand.