Mark T. Panuccio, Lyric Tenor

Biography

Lyric tenor Mark T. Panuccio is earning sensational international acclaim from both audiences and critics. In the summer 2008, he made his debut as Edgard in Lucie de Lammermoor with Cincinnati Opera. Opera News said, “Panuccio held the audience in the palm of his hand as he softly yet strongly projected the young hero's dilemma through delicate pianissimos. His warm lyric tenor was a marvel of vocal magic.” The Cincinnati Opera also presented Mr. Panuccio in a recital celebrating Italian song. The Cincinnati Enquirer said, “From a roar to a wisp of a tone, Mark Panuccio's voice has a fullness and focus, a startling presence, and a compelling communicative power that electrifies the audience.”

In 2009, he performs Bégerass in The Ghosts of Versailles with Wexford Festival Opera, Anthony in Sweeney Todd at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Teatro Comunale Luciano Pavarotti a Modena, Teatro Rossini a Lugo, and Teatri Comunali di Piacenza, Alfredo in La Traviata with Kentucky Opera and Portland SummerFest, and an Italian Festival Concert with Symphonica Toscanini in China.

In the fall 2008, Mr. Panuccio made his Lyric Opera of Chicago debut as Des Grieux in Massenet's Manon with Natalie Dessay, his Nashville Opera debut as Prince Karl in The Student Prince, and returned to Chicago to cover Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly.

In the recent 2007-2008 Season, he performed Alfredo in La Traviata with Michigan Opera Theatre, Duke in Rigoletto with New Orleans Opera, Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor with Arizona Opera, Rodolfo in La Bohème with Cleveland Opera, Edgard in Lucie de Lammermoor and Mao Tse-tung in John Adams's Nixon in China with Cincinnati Opera, Verdi Requiem with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 with the Honolulu Symphony, and Aeneas in Dido and Aeneas with the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra.

Frequent concert performances include the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Honolulu Symphony and Nashville Symphony, Greensboro Symphony, and Cincinnati May Festival. Concert repertoire includes J.S. Bach's St. Matthew Passion and St. John Passion, Beethoven's Symphony No.9, Britten's Nocturne, Saint Nicolas, Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings Opus 31, The Company of Heaven and War Requiem, Handel's Messiah, Haydn's Creation and Mass in Time of War, Mendelssohn's Elijah, Mozart's Requiem, Orff's Carmina Burana and Verdi's Requiem.

Mr. Panuccio has collaborated with noted conductors such as Giordano Bellincampi, Giuliano Carella, James Conlon, Andreas Delfs, Stéphane Denéve, Erich Kunzel, Steven Lord, Steven Mercurio, Donald Nally, Emmanuel Plasson, Robert Porco, John Morris Russell, Patrick Summers, Emmanuel Villaume, Dean Williamson, Martin Wright, and Xian Zhang.