ALESSANDRA MARC
Soprano

Alessandra Marc has the most beautiful voice in the world.
- The Washington Post (March 31, 2001)

Dramatic soprano, Alessandra Marc has consistently been acclaimed as one of the most outstanding artists of our day. Of her 1992 Paris Recital Debut Le Figaro proclaimed "Une Etoile est Nee!" Her voice, of a unique colour, range, and quality, has been praised as "an instrument of unsurpassed beauty and impact" and "perhaps the richest, fullest, most beautiful big soprano voice around" by Andrew Porter in The New Yorker.

Ms Marc is a frequent guest of the world's leading opera houses and orchestras, collaborating with the most eminent conductors of our time, including Daniel Barenboim, Riccardo Chailly, James Conlon, Colin Davis, Andreas Delfs, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Charles Dutoit, Christoph Eschenbach, Heinz Fricke, Daniele Gatti, Marek Janowski, Mariss Jansons, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Kent Nagano, Seiji Ozawa, Esa Pekka Salonen, Gerard Schwarz, Leif Segerstam, Sir Georg Solti, Christian Thielemann, Victor Pablo Perez, Michael Tilson Thomas, Edo de Waart and Franz Welser Most. Ms Marc collaborated most frequently with the late Giuseppe Sinopoli, for whom she sang at his funeral mass in Rome in April of 2001.

Alessandra Marc disposes of a rich opera repertoire. The title roles Aida and Turandot have become her signature parts which she performs at a.o. Opera National des Paris-Bastille, Royal Opera House Covent Garden-London, Teatro alla Scala-Milano, Teatro dell'Opera-Rome, Staatsoper Wien, Staatsoper Berlin, Teatro Nacional de Sao Carlos in Lisbon, New National Theater-Tokyo, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera and the Metropolitan Opera. Of her opening night performance of Aida at the MET, the New York Times reported: "She displayed burnished tone and enormous volume, especially in climactic phrases that soar above the orchestra and chorus".

Other roles the soprano regularly performs are: Sieglinde at a.o. the Royal Albert Hall-London, Liceu-Barcelona, Bayerische Staatsoper-München, Opera Sydney and Opera Zürich as well as Brünnhilde in Die Walküre and in Goetterdaemmerung (Immolation Scene). Additionally she interprets Agathe, Anna (Marschner's Hans Heiling), Norma, Salome, Elektra, Chrysothemis, Ariadne, Kaiserin, Die Frau (Schoenberg's Erwartung) and Gräfin Geschwitz (Berg's Lulu).

Ms. Marc's most recent seasons have included Brünnhilde in a complete concert performance of Die Walkuere led by Kent Nagano, the Beethoven 9 with the Seattle Symphony under Gerard Schwarz, the Israel premiere of Strauss' Vier letzte Lieder conducted by Dr. Leon Botstein, Verdi's Messa da Requiem with the Choral Arts Society of Washington, a gala opera concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra, two televised appearances at the Festival Casals in San Juan, Puerto Rico (in music of Wagner, and a concert Turandot), staged productions of Turandot at the OLBE-ABAO, Bilbao (Nuria Espert), and the Teatro Nacional de Sao Carlos in Lisbon (Andrei Serban), and concerts/recitals at the National Gallery of Art, Tokyo (Suntory Hall) and Okinawa, and at George Mason University.

Her vocal-symphonic repertoire includes: Beethoven's Missa Solemnis and 9th Symphony, Verdi's Messa da Requiem, Mahler's 2nd and 8th Symphony and Das Klagende Lied , Schoenberg's Gurrelieder and Lieder Op. 8, a diverse range of Berg's concert works, Strauss' Vier letzte Lieder, Zemlinsky's Lyrische Symphony and Britten's War Requiem and Spring Symphony.

Ms Marc has recorded Albeniz' Henry Clifford, Beethoven's 9th Symphony, Berg's Altenberg Lieder as well as Lulu Suite, Honneger's Le roi David, Krenek's Jonny Spielt auf, Mahler's 8th Symphony, Puccini's Turandot, Schoenberg's A survivor from Warsaw as well as Erwartung, two recordings of Strauss' Elektra (title role and Chrysothemis), Salome, and Friedenstag, Verdi's Messa da Requiem, Wagner's Die Walkuere and Zemlinsky's Lyrische Symphony, as well as two solo operatic aria recital discs.

Ms Marc is also passionate about repertoire outside of the realm of classical music and opera. She recently appeared in a gala concert at the Brooklyn Museum of Art co-chaired by legendary R&B/rap pioneers, Russell Simmons and Danny Simmons, as well as a gala performance in Fairfax County, VA, singing hits by rockers Evanescence. She has collaborated with the popular composer, Chuck Wild, and frequently performs in recital works by Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, Carlisle Floyd, Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein, Jerome Kern, and more, as well as a large catalogue of American gospel songs and spirituals, and German and French cabaret favorites.

Future Highlights: Mahler's 8th Symphony with a.o. the Spanish chorus Orfeon Donostiarra under the baton of Maestro Victor Pablo Perez (April/May 2005 + August 2005), Benjamin Britten's War Requiem with the Milwaukee Symphony led by Music Director Andreas Delfs (June 2005), the title role of Turandot at the Gran Teatre del Liceu (July 2005) under Maestro Maurizio Benini; Mahler Das Klagende Lied at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam (season opening ZaterdagMatinee September 2005); the title role of Turandot at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino-Florence (February 2006) as well as the Japan Centre of Performing Arts-Tokyo (fall 2006) in the celebrated Zubin Mehta/Zhang Yimou.