Mark T. Panuccio, Lyric Tenor

Biography

Lyric tenor Mark T. Panuccio is praised for the "exquisite lyric beauty of his voice, dramatic expressiveness, unfailing musical sensibility and professionalism" says Opera News. He is consistently reengaged with noted companies nationwide including the Cincinnati Opera, Sarasota Opera, Opera Pacific, Utah Festival Opera, Nevada Opera, Michigan Opera Theatre, Opera Carolina, Portland Summer Opera, and the Opera Company of Philadelphia, as well as internationally appearing at Il Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy. He is featured on the new recording of Menotti's The Saint of Bleeker Street under the baton of Richard Hickox on the Chandos Label.

Engagements for the 2007 Season and beyond include Edgard in Lucie de Lammermoor and Rodolfo in La Baheme with Cincinnati Opera, Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor with Arizona Opera, Raganeau in the world premiere of Cyrano with Opera Company of Philadelphia, as well as concert performances of Orff's Carmina Burana to be recorded on the Naxos Label with the Nashville Symphony and Cincinnati Ballet, Verdi's Requiem with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, and Dido and Aeneas with the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra.

He recently performed the role of Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto with Portland Summer Opera and Mao Tse-tung in John Adams Nixon in China with Cincinnati Opera. Other roles in his expansive and diverse repertoire include Rodolfo in La Boheme, Don José in Carmen, Avito in L'Amore dei tre re, The Prince in Dvořák's Rusalka, Judge Danforth in The Crucible, Cavaradossi in Tosca, Mao Tse-tung in John Adams Nixon in China and Harlequin in The Emperor of Atlantis.

As a specialist in bel canto opera, his repertoire also includes Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor, Pollione in Norma, Cavaliere Belfiore in Il Viaggio a Reims, Aménophis in Rossini's Moise et Pharaon, and Arturo in La Straniera, Nemorino in L'elisir d'amore, Ernesto in Don Pasquale, and Count Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia. A favorite in Benjamin Britten's works, the lyric tenor receives continued success in roles such as Male Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia, General Sir Philip Wingrave/Narrator in Owen Wingrave, and the title role in Albert Herring.

Frequent concert performances include the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati May Festival, Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia, Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, Sioux City Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, Nashville Symphony, Portland Baroque Orchestra, and the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra. Concert repertoire includes Britten's War Requiem, Saint Nicolas, Nocturne and The Company of Heaven, Verdi's Requiem, Beethoven's Symphony No.9, J.S. Bach's St. Matthew Passion and St. John Passion, Mozart's Requiem, Handel's Messiah, Haydn's Creation and Mass in Time of War, Mendelssohn's Elijah and Orff's Carmina Burana.

Mr. Panuccio has collaborated with noted conductors such as Giordano Bellincampi, Luis Biava, James Conlon, Stéphane Deneve, Victor DeRenzi, Joseph Flummerfelt, Richard Hickox, Stefan Lano, Christopher Larkin, Steven Lord, Steven Mercurio, Donald Nally, Emmanuel Plasson, Robert Porco, John Morris Russell, Brian Salesky, Alessandro Siciliani, Robin Stamper, Patrick Summers, Martin Wright, Marco Zembelli, Xian Zhang and Christopher Zimmerman.