13 Facts About Mark Lundberg

Mark Lundberg was an American opera singer who had an active international career from the 1980s up until his sudden death in 2008.

Mark Lundberg began his career as a bass, then progressed to portraying baritone parts, and finally settled as a dramatic tenor, winning acclaim portraying Wagnerian heroes like Siegfried, Tristan and other standards of the dramatic repertoire.

Mark Lundberg's shoulders measured 6 and a half feet around and the Denver Post once Described as "a big blonde bear of a man", a fitting description for such a large man.

Mark Lundberg studied singing at Indiana University under the great Wagnerian soprano Margaret Harshaw.

Two important early successes for Mark Lundberg came in 1988, when he sang in the United States premieres of Richard Strauss's Friedenstag and Krzysztof Penderecki's Die schwarze Maske, both with the Santa Fe Opera.

In 1997 Mark Lundberg sang the role of Samson for his first appearance with the Scottish Opera.

Mark Lundberg would go on to sing that role several more times over the next eleven years, including performances with the Orquesta Sinfonica de Xalapa, New Orleans Opera, Opera Omaha, Michigan Opera Theatre, and Hawaii Opera Theatre.

Mark Lundberg made his debut with the San Francisco Opera in 1999 as the Drum Major in Wozzeck.

Mark Lundberg sang Tristan in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde for his first performance with Opera North in 2001.

Mark Lundberg made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera on October 5,2005 as the Officer in Ariadne auf Naxos with Violeta Urmana in the title role.

In 1994, Mark Lundberg recorded the first Act of Die Walkyre with Edda Moser on Calig records.

Mark Lundberg died at the age of fifty after a brief illness.

At the time of his death, Mark Lundberg was scheduled to perform Samson at the Anna Livia International Opera Festival in Dublin in the summer of 2008 and with the Pittsburgh Opera in October 2008.