Maire Therese Carmack biography

American mezzo-soprano Maire Therese Carmack has been praised by Opera News for her “deep mezzo and vibrant metallic timbre.” In the 2022/2023 season, Ms. Carmack joins the Santa Fe Opera Apprentice Artist Program, makes her Carnegie Hall debut as a participant in Renée Fleming’s SongStudio, and her Heinz Hall debut with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra as a soloist in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony under the baton of Maestro Manfred Honeck.

Equally at home in repertoire old and new, Ms. Carmack performed the role of Prima Donna in the world premiere of Philip Blackburn’s multi-media hyper-opera, The Sun Palace, which became a 60-minute Indie film that was premiered at New York’s Anthology Film Archives. In a collaboration with Parisian composer Jean Luc Lenoir, she presented the American premiere of Songs of the Hebrides: a collection of Hebridean Gaelic folk songs arranged for voice and ensemble.

Ms. Carmack is an alum of the Opera Saratoga Young Artist Program, the Palm Beach Opera Bailey Apprentice Artist Program, The Glimmerglass Festival Young Artists Program, and the Pittsburgh Opera Resident Artist Program. Her role and cover credits include Empress Ottavia L’incoronazione di Poppea, Margaret Johnson Light in the Piazza, Maddalena Rigoletto, La Zelatrice Suor Angelica, Flora La traviata, Orlofsky Die Fledermaus, Olga and Larina Eugene Onegin, Berta The Barber of Seville, Witch/Mother Hänsel und Gretel, Marquise of Berkenfield La fille du régiment, Dorabella Così fan tutte, Juno Semele, Baroness Nica Charlie Parker’s Yardbird, Carmen and Mercédès Carmen, Third Lady The Magic Flute, and Celeste Songbird.

Photo credit: John Carnessali

Maire Therese Carmack holds Bachelor of Arts degrees in Philosophy and Music from the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, summa cum laude (2016) and a Master of Music in Voice Performance and Literature from the Eastman School of Music, with honors (2018). Ms. Carmack won the Florida District of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in 2020, followed by third place in the Gulf Coast Region. She is a first place winner of the Rochester International Voice Competition, Encouragement Award winner in The Gerda Lissner Foundation Lieder/Song Competition, and a second place winner of the Friends of Eastman Opera Aria Competition.