MARC CALLAHAN
Marc Callahan was born in Pennsylvania, USA. He studied with Richard Miller at he Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music with William McGraw and Thomas Barasel. In 2005 Marc received a Rotary Foundation grant that enabled him to continue his vocal studies in France where he studied with Anna-Maria Bondi at the Scola Cantorum and with Isabel Garcisanz and Jean-Philippe Lafont at the Ecole Normale de Musique Alfred Cortot, where he was a Zalenski Scholar. He was also the beneficiary of the Harriet Hale Woolley scholarship from the Fondation des Étas-Unis for the 2006/7 season. Marc is now based in London.
In the United States, Marc began his operatic career in the role of Schaunard in La Bohème for Quisisana Opera. He was chosen for Young Artist Programmes at Sante Fe Opera where he sang Kommerzienrat Intermezzo and Accuser Madame Mao, Des Moines Metro Opera where he sang Harlekin Ariadne auf Naxos, and at Oberlin Opera Theatre singing Guglielmo Cosi fan Tutte. Since then he has sung at several American opera houses including: Central City Opera, Dayton Opera, Ohio Light Opera and Berkshire Opera, in roles such as Ramiro L’Heure espangole, Johann Die Opernprobe, Morales Carmen, Staveling A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Pallante Agrippina, and Lescaut Manon. He made his debuts in France in 2006 with Péniche Opéra as Camember in La Sapeur Camember and at the Salle Cortot as Le Père/L’Orge in La Forêt Bleue. He also joined the Young Artist Programme at the Ópera de Marseille where in 2007 he sang Le Pédicure in Damase’s Colombe.
Engagements for the 2007/8 season included Le Carnaval in Destouches’s Le Carnaval et la Folie on tour with Hervé Niquet and the Festival d’Ambronay, Figaro Autour de Figaro (Mozart and Paisiello) for Opéra Fuoco, Gardefeu La Vie Parisienne and Starveling A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Opéra National de Lyon and the role of Count Arheim in Balfe’s The Bohemian Girl with Opera South. In Autumn 2008 Marc made his debut with William Christie and Les Arts Florissants at the Théâtre des Champs Elysée as Artemidore in Lully’s Armide. Future projects include the title role in Don Giovanni with Opera Fuoco, conducted by David Stern.
Marc is also particularly drawn to performing recital and concert repertoire. In 2004 he participated in the Schumann/Brahms course with Robert Holl at the Britten-Pears Festival in Aldeburgh. He has also sung in Philip Glass’s Symphony No.5, in the presence of the composer, Les Noces by Stravinsky and the Fauré Requiem. As a particular devotee of French art song, Marc won the Prix Lili Boulanger at the Concours International de la Mélodie Française de Toulouse in 2005, and participated in the Académie Francis Poulenc in Tours. In France Marc has given recitals with the pianists Jean-Baptiste Lhermelin, Mathieu Pordoy, Fériel Kaddour and Mimi Soloman. He has also participated in masterclasses with Francois le Roux, Dietrich Henschel, Mady Mesplé and Yvone Minton.
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