Marc Mauillon

Marc Mauillon appears both as a baritone and as a tenor in a wide repertory. Thanks to his versatility, he has enjoyed success in many diverse roles, including Papageno, Bobinet (La Vie parisienne), Mercure (Orphée aux enfers), Monk in Purcell’s King Arthur in a production by the comic duo Shirley et Dino, Husband in Poulenc’s Les Mamelles de Tirésias, Momo in Luigi Rossi’s Orfeo, the title role in Marc-Olivier Dupin’s Robert le Cochon and Seymour Kreilborn (The Little Shop of Horrors). He has also performed villains — La Haine in Lully’s Armide, Tisiphone (Hippolyte et Aricie) and Sorceress (Dido and Aeneas) — and tragic heroes such as Cavalli’s Egisto, Monteverdi’s Orfeo, Debussy’s Pelléas (Pelléas et Mélisande), Blow’s Adonis (Venus and Adonis) and Marais’s Pélée (Alcione).

On the concert platform he has appeared in many Baroque works — airs de cours, French motets, Italian madrigals, sacred and secular cantatas — and in programmes featuring music from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

Conductors with whom he has worked include William Christie, Marc Minkowski, Raphaël Pichon, Christophe Rousset, Alain Altinoglu, Jordi Savall, Vincent Dumestre, Hervé Niquet, Emmanuelle Haïm, Laurent Campellone, Maxime Pascal, Geoffroy Jourdain, Kirill Karabits and Louis Langrée.

Recitals and chamber music form a central part of his career, and his programmes regularly explore links between music, poetry and singing. Among his recent programmes, and also released on CD, are Michel Lambert’s Leçons de ténèbres with Myriam Rignol, Thibaut Roussel and Marouan Mankar-Bennis and, in 2021, Je m’abandonne à vous, based round the poetry of the Comtesse de La Suze, with Angélique Mauillon and Myriam Rignol. His a cappella programme Songline was released on CD in 2016.

In the 2023/24 season he has sung Monostatos (Die Zauberflöte) under François-Xavier Roth at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris and in Compiègne and Tourcoing, where he also appeared as Sander in Grétry’s Zémire et Azor under Langrée, Oronte in Charpentier’s Médée under Christie, Bobinet in Montpellier, the title role in a concert performance of Orphée aux enfers under Minkowski at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Pelléas in Toulouse and Monteverdi’s Orfeo under Savall in Versailles. He has also appeared in concerts and recitals with the Taipei Chamber Singers, Les Arts Florissants, La Guilde des Mercenaires, Gli Angeli and Angélique Mauillon.