Marcus Haddock was born on 19 June 1957 and is an American opera singer and voice teacher who in the course of his 25-year stage career sang leading tenor roles throughout the United States and Europe.
12 Facts About Marcus Haddock
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Marcus Haddock increasingly sang in American opera houses from 1998 and made his Metropolitan Opera debut in 2003 in the title role of Faust.
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Marcus Haddock retired from the stage in 2009 after suffering two serious strokes, and began a new career as a voice teacher in 2012.
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Marcus Haddock was born in Fort Worth, Texas, the son of Southern Baptist minister.
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Marcus Haddock entered the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in 1984 winning first place in the New England Region and went on to become one of the 11 National Council winners.
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Marcus Haddock made his European debut in 1986 as Ford in Salieri's Falstaff with Opera National de Bordeaux and returned there the following year as Nemorino in L'elisir d'amore.
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Marcus Haddock remained based in Europe throughout most of the 1990s, although he returned to the US in 1998 to appear as Ruggero in Washington National Opera's production of La rondine, and increasingly assayed lyric tenor roles, singing as a guest artist at the Vienna Staatsoper, La Scala and the Opera Bastille in Paris.
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From 2000, Marcus Haddock continued performing in Europe but increasingly appeared on North American stages as well.
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Marcus Haddock reprised the roles of Ruggero in La rondine and Hoffmann at Los Angeles Opera, appeared as the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto at Dallas Opera, returned to Washington National Opera as Cavaradossi in Tosca and Pinkerton in Madame Butterfly, and sang Gabriele Adorno in Simon Boccanegra at Santa Fe Opera.
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Marcus Haddock was preparing to leave for a series of opera engagements in Europe in March of that year when he suffered two massive strokes in 24 hours at his home in Skaneateles, New York where he and wife Kathleen had settled in the late 1990s.
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Marcus Haddock initially taught in his private studio in Skaneateles and at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
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Marcus Haddock continues to teach at his private studio and at Colgate University.