MARC ANTOINE D'ARAGON - baritone
young artist
Marc-Antoine d’Aragon
(baritone) completed a bachelor degree at Université de Montréal and a
Master’s degree in Opera at McGill University. Supported by two grants he is
now completing an Artist Diploma at McGill with Prof. Thérèse Sevadjian, and
furthers his training with Prof. Michael McMahon at McGill and Norma Newton in
New York City. Marc-Antoine was the gold medal winner at the Festival de
musique du Royaume 2005, and obtained a third place both in 2005 and 2006 at
the Canadian Music Competition. At twenty-eight years of age, he has already
been part of many operatic productions: Les Mamelles de Tirésias
as Le Directeur and as Le Gendarme; Ibert’s Angélique as Le
Diable; Gianni Schicchi in the title role and as Simone;
Quesnel’s Colas et Colinette as Le Bailli; excerpts of Mozart’s
Cosi fan tutte, Le Nozze di Figaro and Don
Giovanni with the Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal under
Yannick Nézet-Séguin; I Pagliacci as Silvio; Bernstein’s
Candide as Maximilian; the world premiere of Wachner’s
Évangéline as Père Félicien; Somers’s Louis Riel as the
Judge and Nault; Donizetti’s l’Elisir d’amore as Belcore;
Poulenc’s Les Dialogues des Carmélites as Le Marquis; and
Massenet’s Cendrillon as Le roi. Marc-Antoine has also been a
soloist in different concert settings : the world premiere of Ingari’s
Les chants d’amour, Brahm’s Ein deutsche Requiem,
Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn, Fauré’s Requiem,
Dvorak’s Requiem, Rutter’s Mass for children,
Varèse’s Equatorial and Charpentier’s Midnight Mass.
Marc-Antoine has also performed numerous times in recital. In June, he will be
the Commissario in Madama Butterfly at the Green Mountain
Festival in Vermont, and in July Papageno in Die Zauberflöte at
the Amalfi Coast Music Festival, in Italy.