Marc Mauillon

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“A singer like no other—how better to describe Marc Mauillon?”

With the breadth and uniqueness of his repertoire, his unmistakable timbre, and his refined diction, Marc Mauillon has carved out a distinct place for himself on today’s opera scene. Alternating between baritone and tenor, this musical chameleon adapts his colors to the styles and characters he encounters.

On the opera stage, he is sometimes comical (Papageno, Monostatos, Bobinet from La Vie Parisienne, Mercury in Orphée aux Enfers, Seymour in La Petite Boutique des Horreurs), a malevolent deity (Hatred in Lully’s Armide, Tisiphone in Hippolyte et Aricie), a tragic hero (title roles in Cavalli’s Egisto, Monteverdi’s Orfeo, Debussy’s Pelléas, Blow’s Adonis, Pélée in Marais’ Alcione), or even a tragic heroine (Raulito in Strasnoy’s Cachafaz).

In concert, he performs court songs (Lambert, Charpentier, Bacilly…), French petit and grand motets (Charpentier, Lully, Rameau, Couperin…), Italian madrigals (Monteverdi, Gesualdo), sacred and secular cantatas (Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Telemann, Montéclair, Clérambault), as well as medieval and Renaissance music programs.

He collaborates with conductors such as W. Christie (he was a laureate of the first Jardin des Voix in 2002), M. Minkowski, R. Pichon, C. Rousset, A. Altinoglu, J. Savall, V. Dumestre, H. Niquet, E. Haïm, M. Pascal, L. Langrée, F.-X. Roth, and directors such as L. Hemleb, D. Warner, B. Lazar, I. Alexandre, R. Carsen, J. Mijnssen, B. Twist, V. Lesort & C. Hecq, C. Klapisch, M. Clément.

Recitals and chamber music hold a special place in his career. These programs deeply explore the relationship between music, poetry, and vocality, whether with Machaut (with P. Hamon, V. Biffi, and A. Mauillon), Peri and Caccini (with A. Mauillon), or more recently Je m’abandonne à vous, featuring the poetry of the Comtesse de la Suze (with A. Mauillon and M. Rignol), the Leçons de Ténèbres by Lambert (with M. Rignol, T. Roussel, and M. Mankar-Bennis), Poulenc/Eluard (with G. Coppola), music of World War I, and Fauré and his poets (with A. Le Bozec). In 2024, two recordings will be released: Ronsard et la musique, cueillez cueillez votre jeunesse (with Doulce Mémoire and A. Le Bozec) and The Experts: Bach & Silbermann families (with Les Surprises).

In 2016, he created Songline, a monodic a cappella recital incorporating movement and light.

For the 2024/2025 season, he will portray Momus and Mercury in Les Fêtes d’Hébé at the Opéra-Comique (W. Christie/R. Carsen) and Pollux in Castor et Pollux at the Paris Opera (T. Currentzis/P. Sellars). He will also perform as Silvio in Bizet’s Le Docteur Miracle at the Théâtre du Châtelet. Additionally, he will appear in various concerts and recitals with ensembles such as Les Surprises, Les Arts Florissants, Les Trouveurs, Les Joueurs de traverse, Pierre Hamon, Anne Le Bozec, Angélique Mauillon, and Pascal Sanchez.

Marc Mauillon is regularly invited to give masterclasses, workshops, and training sessions in France and abroad. From 2018 to 2024, he taught the interpretation of medieval secular music in the Master’s program for Early Music at the Sorbonne, having previously served as a voice professor at Pôle Sup’93 (Aubervilliers-La Courneuve) from 2014 to 2018.