Mark T. Panuccio, Lyric Tenor

Reviews

"Tenor Mark Panuccio who is surely 'America's next great tenor,' delivered a knock-out performance of opera arias and duets, including what is fast becoming his signature aria, 'Nessun dorma.' " Opera in the Amazon 'Una noche mágica' - Cincinnati Opera - 2007 - Cincinnati Enquirer

"Whalen shared the stage with a superb cast of singers that included tenor Mark T. Panuccio making his Arizona Opera debut in the role of Edgardo. Panuccio is blessed with an exquisite lyric tenor and dramatic sensibilities that were perhaps at their best in his death scene. This hopefully is not the last we see of him on an Arizona stage." Lucia di Lammermoor - Arizona Opera - 2007 - Arizona Daily Star

"Especially interesting in this season opener was the singing of Mark T. Panuccio in the role of Edgardo. Panuccio brought to the role a truly fine Italian tenor voice with great range and dramatic color. Panuccio created a strong, masculine Scottish character which contrasted painfully well against the foppishly French portrayal of Arturo by Jason Ferrante. Lucia di Lammermoor - Arizona Opera - 2007 - Green Valley News and Sun

"Tenor Mark T Panuccio made a most impressive début with the company as Edgardo. He has a robust, warm lyric voice with distinctive colorations and he was an ardent, passionate Edgardo. It was easy to understand why Lucia fell in love with him." Lucia di Lammermoor - Arizona Opera - 2007 - Music & Vision

"The high, screaming tessitura of Mao Tse-tung held no fears for Mark T. Panuccio, who sang with lyric beauty and ease." Nixon in China - Cincinnati Opera - 2007 - Opera

"Musically the performances were as good as good could possibly be. Mark T. Panuccio actually sang the screaming tessitura music of Mao Tse-Tung with lyric beauty and ease, acting with genuine realism." Nixon in China - Cincinnati Opera - 2007 - Opera News

"The evening's spectacular vocal heart was reserved for Mr. and Mrs. Mao, Mark T. Panuccio and Georgia Jarman. Panuccio's beautiful Italianate lyric tenor coped easily with the cruel high tessitura, as he sang with immaculate diction." Nixon in China - Cincinnati Opera - 2007 - American Record Guide

"Here's the cast: (...) Cincinnati tenor Mark Panuccio (a rising star with a knockout voice) (...) Then we came to La Boheme, with Mark Panuccio and Lisa Daltirus. His 'Che gelida manina' was simply stunning. He displayed a bright Italianate tenor with the thrilling timbre of a young Pavarotti, and nuanced phrasing. (What a switch from the John Adams he sang last week!! This is his music.) Their duet, 'O suave fanciulla' took your breath away." "Salute to Cincinnati Opera" - Cincinnati Symphony - 2007 - Cincinnati Enquirer

"Mark Panuccio depicted the aged, infirm Mao as a leader who was still very much in control, even once spitting at Nixon. Panuccio's clear, ringing tenor navigated the role's wide leaps and hight range effortlessly." Nixon in China - Cincinnati Opera - 2007 - Cincinnati Enquirer

"Newly slim tenor Mark Panuccio (who had to wear padding as Mao) had the most difficult role visually, since he had to portray a feeble old man who needed assistance walking (...) Panuccio's bright, focused tenor served notice that he has an important career underway." Nixon in China - Cincinnati Opera - 2007 - The Cincinnati Post

"Soft wisp or roaring, tenor's voice compelling - A great tenor voice is a rare gift, both to the singer and the audience. When that voice is coupled with acute musical intelligence and a stirring depth of emotion, the result can only be superb.
Friday evening at Memorial Hall, Mark Panuccio demonstrated to a wildly appreciative audience that he possesses all these musical qualities and will surely be recognized as one of the top tenors of the world. He is a product of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and a protˆ©gˆ© of the Cincinnati Opera, both institutions have a right to be proud of Panuccio." Read More O Sole Mio - A Celebration of Italian Song - Cincinnati Opera - 2007 - Cincinnati Enquirer

"Tenor, Mark Panuccio, has a very sensitive and expressive voice well suited for the wide range of emotions in this work. As the message of the text changed Panuccio skillfully changed mood and vocal color like a chameleon. His marvelous voice and the artful accompaniment by the Chamber Orchestra made this an entrancing work to hear." Britten's Nocture - Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra - 2007 - Cincinnati Enquirer

"Panuccio possessed a resonance rare with many tenors and delivered the upper register with a powerful ease" Verdi's Requiem - Greensboro Symphony Orchestra - 2006 - News & Record of Greensboro

"Mark T. Panuccio sang such a sweet-voiced, manically acted Spalanzani that it made one want to hear him in larger, more romantic roles." Les Contes d'Hoffmann - Cincinnati Opera - 2006 - Opera News

"Tenor Mark Panuccio as the overseer, Casey, was both musically sound and dramatically convincing, managing to incorporate sneering and contempt into his great technical performance." Margaret Garner - Opera Carolina - 2006 - Salisbury Post

"Robust tenor Mark T. Panuccio brought a welcome edge to spice the unrelenting evil of the slave foreman Casey." Margaret Garner - Opera Carolina - 2006 -Classical Voice of North Carolina

"Panuccio is a major find, a tenor of hefty golden tone, immaculate enunciation, commanding stage presence, making Casey (the slave overseer) a truly vile creature of harrowing impact." Margaret Garner - Cincinnati Opera - 2005 - Opera

"Panuccio's Casey (the slave overseer) was a truly vile character, yet sung with golden tone and immaculate diction." Margaret Garner - Cincinnati Opera - 2005 - American Record Guide

"Tenor Mark Panuccio as the foreman Casey was a cookie-cutter sadist, as his role requires, and in fine voice." Margaret Garner - Cincinnati Opera - 2005 - The Cincinnati Post

"Tenor Mark T. Panuccio etched his solos beautifully, with heroic expression and dramatic detail." Messiah - Portland Baroque Orchestra - 2005 - The Oregonian

"As Life (Harqulin), tenor Mark T. Panuccio employed his supple, sweet-toned tenor artfully, with exquisite clarity of tone and crystal clear diction, acting with fine dexterity and emotion." The Emperor of Atlantis - Cincinnati Opera -- 2004 - American Record Guild

"In The Emperor, Mark T. Panuccio's Life(Harlequin) was always sweet-toned, supple and graceful, adroitly acted and clear-toned." The Emperor of Atlantis - Cincinnati Opera -- 2004 - Opera News

"Life was a harlequin in all white, from his top hat to his toes (tenor Mark T. Panuccio captured the role's satirical wit wonderfully). The Emperor of Atlantis - Cincinnati Opera -- 2004 - The Cincinnati Enquirer

"There was strong work from Andrew Gangestad and especially tenor Mark T. Panuccio (Life). The Emperor of Atlantis - Cincinnati Opera -- 2004 -Wall Street Journal

"The humorous Ping, Pang and Pong (Marian Pop, Andreas Conrad and Mark Panuccio) rolled around in bigger-than-life, Alice-in-Wonderland-style costumes. Their reflective Act II trio was staged with nostalgia and whimsy, in one of the evening's most memorable scenes." Turandot - Cincinnati Opera - 2003 - Cincinnati Enquirer

"The soft-grained, ineffectual Ping of Marian Pop undercut the trio of masks, but the Pang (Andreas Conrad) and Pong (Mark T. Panuccio) supplied plenty of vocal power and comedy with extra luster from Panuccio's attractive tenor." Turandot - Cincinnati Opera - 2003 - Opera

"Dean Peterons's seasoned bass is now a bit too seasoned, but his younger colleagues, tenors Mark T. Panuccio, Andreas Conrad, baritone Craig Verm, were fresh, enthusiastic, each with a most attractive sound. Panuccio in particular sang with lyric beauty, even in the most awkward of stagings, full of verse and personality as well." Seven Deadly Sins - Cincinnati Opera - 2003 - American Record Guide

"The Family (Dean Peterson, Andreas Conrad, Mark Panuccio and Craig Verm) was introduced in "Sloth" as Mount Rushmore (voices of ages past). Their mock-serious quartets were hilarious, whether appearing as presidents, pop icons or watching the famous Anna on TV. (How does one get a tenor to sing in a diaper and pacifier?)" Seven Deadly Sins - Cincinnati Opera - 2003 - Cincinnati Enquirer

"All were strongly sung with special good notice given to the most mellifluous tenor of Mark T. Panuccio." La Traviata - Cincinnati Opera - 2003 - Opera News

"High praises goes to the secondary characters as well, particularly Mark T. Panuccio's mellifluous tenor and easy acting as Gastone." La Traviata - Cincinnati Opera - 2003 -Opera

"Tenor Mark T. Panuccio had the winning vocal freshness characteristic." St. Matthew Passion - Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia - 2003 - The Philadelphia Inquirer

"Best of the singers was Mark Panuccio (Aménophis), with exquisitely projected French, a brilliant tenor sound and plenty of heft; he was equally at home in long lyric lines and in the ornate fioriture, nailing his frequent high notes (including a D above high C) with precision and grace" Moïse et Pharaon - University of Cincinnati - 2002 - Opera News

"As the implacable Judge Danforth, tenor Mark Panuccio hurled vocal thunderbolts, easily negotiating the high tessitura and singing with crisp diction and unfailing beauty." The Crucible - University of Cincinnati - 2002 - Opera News

"Special honors go to Mark T. Panuccio whose mellifluous tenor is heard at the beginning of Act 2 in the Italian effusions of the First Wedding Guest." Recording of The Saint of Bleeker Street - Spoleto Festival of Italy - 2002 - American Record Guide

"The act almost falls in quicksand but is rescued by a strong and powerful performance by Mark T. Panuccio as Sid El Kar." The Desert Song - Utah Festival Opera - 2002 - The Statesman

"Mark T. Panuccio (El Remendado) is impressive singing his role with theatrical flair and vocal perfection." Carmen - Nevada Opera - 2002 - Nevada Events

"The role of the Prince is of extreme difficulty, requiring a wide range, sustained high tessitura, and an ability to cut through a large orchestra. It has been a Ben Heppner specialty lately. To ask young voices to attempt this role is almost cruel. The CCM faculty proved to be correct in their belief that they had a tenor who could handle it: Mark T. Panuccio. His voice is one of amazing lyric beauty with sufficient heft and unfailing, sensible musicality- as major a talent as has been heard at CCM in many a year. Capable of pinning the audience to their seats with a right-on stunning high C, he is even more impressive in the delicate nuance and beauty of his pianissimo singing. He even manages a pianissimo high B-flat while lying on his back during the Prince's delicately dramatic death scene. He is a sensitive actor as well, and it was difficult to hold back the tears as the Prince slowly raises his hand to convey a last farewell kiss to the departing Rusalka." Rusalka - University of Cincinnati - 2001 - American Record Guide

"The show-stopper was lyric tenor Mark T. Panuccio's rendition of "O Holy Night", drawing the loudest ovation." Home for the Holidays - Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra - 1999 - Cincinnati Enquirer

"Of all the soloists, only tenor Mark T. Panuccio was shown to fine advantage, singing with vocal polish and interpretive command, displaying a gorgeous voice and delineating the fullest meaning of the words." Messiah - The Bridge Ensemble - 1997 - Philadelphia Inquirer