Marc Mauillon

Marc Mauillon sings both tenor and baritone roles. His repertory has included Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Bobinet (La Vie parisienne), Mercure (Orphée aux enfers), Husband in Poulenc’s Les Mamelles de Tirésias, Momo in Luigi Rossi’s Orfeo, La Haine in Lully’s Armide, Tisiphone in Rameau’s Hippolyte et Aricie and Sorceress (Dido and Aeneas), along with the title roles of Cavalli’s Egisto and Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, Pelléas (Pelléas et Mélisande), Adonis in John Blow’s Venus and Adonis and Pélée in Marais’ Alcione.

On the concert stage he has sung French motets by Charpentier, Lully, Rameau, Desmarest, Campra and Couperin, Italian madrigals by Monteverdi and Gesualdo, secular cantatas by Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Telemann, Montéclair and Clérambault and medieval and Renaissance music.

He has worked with conductors such as William Christie, Marc Minkowski, Raphaël Pichon, Christophe Rousset, Alain Altinoglu, Jordi Savall, Vincent Dumestre, Hervé Niquet, Emmanuelle Haïm, Laurent Campellone, Maxime Pascal and Geoffroy Jourdain, and with directors including Lukas Hemleb, Deborah Warner, Benjamin Lazar, Robert Carsen and Jetske Mijnssen.

Together with Myriam Rignol, Thibaut Roussel and Marouan Mankar-Bennis he has made a CD of Michel Lambert’s Leçons de Ténèbres, released in 2018 by the label harmonia mundi. In 2020 he released a Fauré album on the same label with the pianist Anne Le Bozec.

Most recently he has appeared as Cithéron in Rameau’s Platée at the Theater an der Wien, as Andrès / Cochenille / Pitichinaccio /Frantz (Les Contes d’Hoffmann) at the Opéra National de Bordeaux, in recitals with Lea Desandre at the Opéra Comique and in concerts celebrating the 40th anniversary of Les Arts Florissants in London, Hamburg, Baden-Baden, Madrid and Paris.

Other engagements have included Orfeo at the Royal Danish Opera, Pelée in Marais’ Alcione at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona and, recently, Pelléas at the Opéra National de Montpellier.

Since 2018 he has taught early music interpretation at the Sorbonne in Paris.