Maire ThereseCarmack
Contact
Nicholas Moloney
Representation
Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt
About Maire Therese
American mezzo-soprano Maire Therese Carmack, Third Prize winner at the 2022 Operalia World Opera Competition, has been praised by Opera News for her "deep mezzo and vibrant metallic timbre" and for "taking focus by her very presence".
Maire Therese's 2024-25 season includes house debuts with the Lyric Opera of Chicago in Rigoletto (Giovanna/Maddalena cover) and Houston Grand Opera in Missy Mazzoli's Breaking the Waves (Dodo McNeill). She will also return to The Metropolitan Opera for The Magic Flute - Holiday Presentation (Second Lady). In concert, Maire Therese makes debuts with the Santa Fe Symphony as Marguerite in Berlioz's La damnation de Faust, the Oregon Bach Festival and San Antonio Philharmonic as the alto soloist in Beethoven's Symphony No.9, with Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras as Princess Eboli in Verdi's Don Carlo, and with UF Symphony Orchestra as alto soloist in Mahler's Resurrection Symphony.
Maire Therese joined The Metropolitan Opera for the 2023-24 season as a member of the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. She covered Fenena in Nabucco, made her debut in The Magic Flute (Second Lady), and was featured in Madama Butterfly (Kate Pinkerton). She also made her San Franscisco Opera debut in Die Zauberflöte (Dritte Dame) and returned to Deutsche Oper Berlin to reprise Der Missmut in Rued Langgaard's rarely performed Antikrist which will be released on DVD in a collaboration with NAXOS.
Previous highlights include Maire Therese's European debut with Deutsche Oper Berlin, where she opened the season in the title role of Carmen as part of the company's Cultural Summer Festival, Don Quichotte (Dulcinée), Rigoletto (Giovanna/Maddalena), Lucia di Lammermoor (Alisa), and Antikrist (Der Missmut). She also had debuts with Santa Fe Opera as a member of the Apprentice Artist Program, singing Mercédès in Carmen and performing as a soloist in the world premiere of David Henry Hwang and Huang Ruo's M. Butterfly 蝴蝶君, with Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra as alto soloist in Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, and with the Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra as alto soloist in Bach’s Matthäus-Passion under the baton of Christoph Koncz.
Maire Therese is an alum of the Palm Beach Opera Bailey Apprentice Artist Program, the Glimmerglass Festival Young Artists Program, the Santa Fe Opera Apprentice Program for Singers, and the Pittsburgh Opera Resident Artist Program. She is the winner of the Björn Eklund Scholarship from The Opera Foundation (2022), first prize winner of the Gerda Lissner Lieder and Song Competition (2023), winner of Opera Index's Felix Popper Award (2023), two-time grant recipient from The Olga Forrai Foundation for Dramatic Voices (2023/2024), and second prize winner of the Gerda Lissner International Vocal Competition (2024). Maire Therese holds a Master of Music in Voice Performance and Literature (with honors) from the Eastman School of Music, as well as Bachelor of Arts degrees in both Philosophy and Visual and Performing Arts (summa cum laude) from the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.
Representation
Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt
Season Highlights
Video
Maire Therese Carmack sings O don fatale from Verdi's Don Carlo
Maire Therese Carmack (mezzo soprano) Leo Radosavlijevic (piano) Credit: Rafael Porto | captuR media
PlayingMaire Therese Carmack performs Ces lettres! from Massenet's Werther
Operalia Finals 2022, Latvia National Opera, Maire Therese Carmack (mezzo soprano), Kamal Khan (conductor) Credit: Operalia
Playing
Selected Repertoire
Berlioz | Les Troyens (Didon) • La Damnation de Faust (Marguerite) |
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Bizet | Carmen (title role / Mercedes) |
Borodin | Prince Igor (Konchakovna) |
Britten | The Rape of Lucretia (title role) |
Gluck | Orfeo ed Euridice (Orfeo) |
Handel | Semele (Juno) |
Massenet | Don Quichotte (Dulcinée) • Werther (Charlotte) |
Purcell | Dido and Aeneas (Dido) |
Rimsky-Korsakov | The Tsar's Bride (Lyubasha) |
Tchaikovsky | Eugene Onegin (Olga) • The Queen of Spades (Polina) |
Verdi | Don Carlos (Princess Eboli) • Rigoletto (Maddalena) • Falstaff (Meg Page) • La Forza del Destino (Preziosilla) • Nabucco (Fenena) |
Wagner | Tannhäuser (Venus) • Tristan und Isolde (Brangäne) |