Baritone
«An outstanding singer: how can you better define Marc Mauillon ?» (Michel Parouty, Opéra Magazine 02/2017)
With the extent of his repertoire, his unique tone and his chiseled diction, Marc Mauillon occupies a very personal place on today’s lyrical scene. Sometimes a baritone, sometimes a tenor, this chameleon adapts his colors to the musics he performs as well as the characters he embodies.
On the opera stage, he can personify a «goofy» character (Papageno, Bobinet from La Vie Parisienne, Mercurio from Orphée aux enfers, Seymour from The Little Shop of Horrors…), an evil deity (Hatred in Armide by Lully, Tisiphone in Hippolyte et Aricie…), a tragedian (title roles of Egisto by Cavalli, Orfeo by Monteverdi, Pelléas by Debussy, Adonis by Blow, Pélée in Alcione by Marais…) and even a tragedienne (Raulito in Cachafaz by Strasnoy).
Recent highlights include Rameau operas: Castor et Pollux (Pollux) at the Opéra national de Paris (T. Currentzis/P. Sellars) and Les fêtes d’Hébé (Momus & Mercure) at the Opéra-Comique (W. Christie/R. Carsen).
In concert, he sings some airs de cour (Lambert, Charpentier, Bacilly…), French motets (Charpentier, Lully, Rameau, Couperin…), Italian madrigals (Monteverdi, Gesualdo), sacred or secular cantatas (Bach, Haendel, Vivaldi, Telemann, Monteclair, Clérambault), as well as medieval or Renaissance music programs.
He has been working with conductors such as W. Christie (he is the laureate of the first Jardin des Voix in 2002), R. Pichon, C. Rousset, A. Altinoglu, J. Savall, V. Dumestre, H. Niquet, E. Haïm, M. Pascal, L. Langrée, F.-X. Roth, T. Currentzis… and stage 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, P. Sellars…
Recitals and chamber music are central in his career. His programmes are conceived to put music, poetry and vocality in perspective, with Machaut (with P. Hamon, V. Biffi and A. Mauillon), Peri and Caccini (with A. Mauillon), or more recently Je m’abandonne à vous, devoted to the poetry of the Countess de la Suze (with A. Mauillon & M. Rignol), the Leçons des Ténèbres by Lambert (with M. Rignol, T. Roussel and M. Mankar-Bennis), Poulenc/Eluard (with G. Coppola), Musiciens de la Grande Guerre & Fauré et ses poètes (with A. Le Bozec). In 2024 is released Ronsard et la musique, cueilliez cueillez votre jeunesse, an homage to the poet (with Doulce Mémoire and A. Le Bozec) and The experts: Bach & Silbermann families (with Les Surprises).
In 2016, he creates Songline¸ a monodic a capella recital, in which music, motion and light intertwine.
During the 2025-2026 season, the opera side is dedicated to Offenbach: hee embodies Toby in Robinson Crusoé (M. Minkowski/L. Pelly) at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, and resumes his role of Bobinet in La Vie Parisienne (V. Jacob/ C/ Lacroix) at the Opéra Royal de Versailles. He also joins Jordi Savall, Vincent Dumestre and le Poème Harmonique (at la Seine Musicale and at the Konzerthaus Vienna), the ensembles Concerto Copenhagen, les Surprises, les Epopées, Concerto Soave and Agamemnon, Angélique Mauillon, Anne Le Bozaec and Pascal Sanchez for several concerts and recitals. His project dedicated to polyphonic songs by Josquin comes into being at the Opéra Normandie Rouen.
Regularly invited to give master-classes and training courses in France and abroad, Marc Mauillon has taught interpretation of secular medieval music at the Sorbonne from (Master d’Interprétation des Musiques Anciennes) 2018 to 2024, after having been a teacher at the Pôle Sup’93 (Aubervilliers La Courneuve) from 2014 to 2018.
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