Representation: Benelux, France

Marc on
The bohemian girl

Marc Callahan was born in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania (USA). He studied with Richard Miller at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music where he earned his Bachelor of Music degree and at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music with William McGraw (Master of Music) and with Thomas Barasel (Doctor of Music). In 2005, a grant from the Rotary foundation allowed Marc to continue his vocal studies in France where he continues to study with Anna-Maria Bondi at the Scola Cantorum and with Isabel Garcisanz and Jean-Philippe Lafont at the Ecole Normale de Musique Alfred Cortot, where he was a Zalenski Scholar. He was also the beneficiary of the Harriet Hale Woolley scholarship from the Fondation des Etats-Unis for the 2006-2007 season. 

In the United States, Marc has performed regularly in operas and in concert. He began his career in the role of Schaunard in La Bohème. From there, he has sung with many American houses: the Santa Fe Opera, Central City Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, Ohio Light Opera, Dayton Opera, Sarasota Opera, Opera Theatre di Lucca, and the Berkshire Opera, where he has interpreted such roles as: Ramiro (L'Heure espagnole), Harlekin (Ariadne auf Naxos), Johann (Die Opernprobe), Morales (Carmen), Starveling (A Midsummer Night's Dream), Pallante (Agrippina), Lescaut (Manon)... He is particularly drawn to performing recital and concert repertoire and has sung with the Britten-Pears Festival (Aldeburgh), in Philip Glass’s Symphony No. 5 (in the presence of the composer), Stravinsky’s Les Noces, and Fauré’s Requiem.

In France, he has collaborated with pianists Jean-Baptiste Lhermelin, Mathieu Pordoy, Fériel Kaddour and Mimi Solomon in recital and has participated on master classes with Francois le Roux and Dietrich Henschel (Salle Cortot in collaboration with the Theatre du Châtelet) as well as with Mady Mesplé and Yvonne Minton. He made his theatrical debuts in France with the Péniche Opéra in Le Sapeur Camember and at the Salle Cortot in La Forêt Bleue. With his love of French art song, he won the Prix Lili Boulanger at the Concours International de la Mélodie Française de Toulouse in 2005 and participated in the Académie Francis Poulenc in Tours, under the direction of François le Roux, Jeff Cohen and Noël Lee.

Recently, he has sung the title role in Destouches’s Le Carnaval et la Folie on tour with Hervé Niquet and the Festival d’Ambronay, Bobinet in La Vie Parisienne and Starveling in A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the Opéra National de Lyon, Count Arheim in Balfe’s The Bohemian Girl with Opera South, Artémidore in Lully’s Armide with William Christie and Les Arts Florissants at the Théâtre des Champs Elysée, and the title role in Don Giovanni performed with David Stern and Opéra Fuoco.