Marc Mauillon appears in a wide repertory both as a baritone and as a tenor. Thanks to his versatility, he has enjoyed success in many diverse roles, including comic characters such as Papageno, Bobinet (La Vie parisienne), Mercure (Orphée aux enfers) and Seymour Krelborn (The Little Shop of Horrors), villains such as La Haine in Lully’s Armide and Tisiphone in Rameau’s Hippolyte et Aricie and tragic heroes such as Cavalli’s Egisto, Monteverdi’s Orfeo, Debussy’s Pelléas, Blow’s Adonis (Venus and Adonis) and Marais’ 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, Maxime Pascal, Louis Langrée and François-Xavier Roth.
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, also released on CD, are Michel Lambert’s Leçons de ténèbres (with Myriam Rignol, Thibaut Roussel and Marouan Mankar-Bennis), Fauré et ses poètes (with Anne Le Bozec), Je m’abandonne à vous, based round the poetry of the Comtesse de La Suze (with Angélique Mauillon and Myriam Rignol) and, in 2024, Ronsard et la musique: Cueillez, cueillez votre jeunesse (with Doulce Mémoire and Anne Le Bozec) and The Experts: The Bach & Silbermann Dynasties (with the ensemble Les Surprises). His a cappella programme Songline was released on CD in 2016.
Following his performance as the four servants in Les Contes d’Hoffmann at the 2024 Salzburg Festival, in the 2024/25 season Marc Mauillon sang Momus and Mercure in Robert Carsen’s new production of Rameau’s Les Fêtes d’Hébé under William Christie at the Opéra Comique and Pollux in Peter Sellars’s new production of Castor et Pollux under Teodor Currentzis at the Paris Opéra. He also appeared as Silvio in Bizet’s Docteur Miracle at the Théâtre du Châtelet and performed in concerts and recitals with Les Surprises, Les Arts Florissants, Les Trouveurs and Les Joueurs de Traverses, and with Pierre Hamon, Anne Le Bozec, Angélique Mauillon and Pascal Sanchez.
