Maire Therese Carmack
MEZZO-SOPRANO
AT A GLANCE.
American mezzo-soprano Maire Therese Carmack, Third Prize winner of the 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." Her 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.
a sonorous
mezzo-soprano with a seductive side.
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PRAISE FOR
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"The audience favorite was clearly Maire Therese Carmack in the impossible role of Princess Eboli. Impossible because the role's two big arias are so completely different that one singer can rarely pull them both off successfully. But Carmack sang The Veil Song, the deceptively light coloratura ballad, and the searing, self-castigating aria "O don fatale" with equal control, power, and affect."
Musical America
"The most impressive of the cast vocally was Maire Therese Carmack as the malevolent Juno. Her deep, contralto-ish mezzo has a vibrant metallic timbre that maintains its quality into the higher range. She used her wide coloristic range to expressive advantage, whether in the commanding, "Hence, Iris, hence away" (another Handel hit tune), the cajoling "Behold in this mirror" or the viciously jubilant "Above measure is the pleasure." An imposing figure onstage, Carmack can take focus by her very presence."
OPERA NEWS
