Marian Pop has recently emerged as one of the world’s leading lyric
baritones, with engagements at the Opera de Paris Bastille, Opera Company
of Philadelphia, the Staatsoper Stuttgart and the Wiener Staatsoper. He
created the title role in David DiChiera’s Cyrano in its world premiere at
Michigan Opera Theatre and sang subsequent performances at Opera
Company of Philadelphia in 2007-2008 season.
Marian Pop’s 2008-2009 engagements included: Figaro (Il barbiere di
Siviglia) and il Conte Almaviva (Le Nozze di Figaro) at the Teatro Municipal
de Santiago; Dandini (La Cenerentola) at the Florida Grand Opera; Valentin
(Faust) at the Theater Basel; Figaro (Il barbiere di Siviglia) at the Palma de
Mallorca Festival; the Black Cat and the Grandfather Clock (L’Enfant et les
Sortilèges) at the Opera Company of Philadelphia and the Carmina Burana
with the St. Petersburg Philharmonia.
Marian Pop’s European engagements include: Posa (Don Carlo), Lescaut
(Manon), Taddeo (L’Italiana in Algeri) and Pantalone (L’Amour de Trois
Oranges) at the Theater Basel; Figaro (Il barbiere di Siviglia), il Conte
Almaviva (Le Nozze di Figaro) and Dandini (Le Cenerentola) at the
Stadttheater Klagenfurt; Belcore (L’Elisir d’Amore) in Klosterneuburg; Figaro
(Il barbiere di Siviglia) at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz Munchen; Marullo
(Rigoletto) at the Opera de Paris Bastille; Figaro (Il barbiere di Siviglia) and
Dr. Falke (Die Fledermaus) with the Nationale Reisopera; Falke (Die
Fledermaus) at the Theater St. Gallen; Figaro, Beckmesser (Die
Meistersinger von Nürnberg), and Ulisse (Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria) at the
Staatsoper Stuttgart; and Malatesta (Don Pasquale), Homonay
(Zigeunerbaron), Dandini (Cenerentola), Valentin (Faust), Ping (Turandot) and
Dr. Falke (Die Fledermaus) with the Vienna Staatsoper and Volksoper.
Marian Pop’s North American engagements include Malatesta (Don Pasquale)
and Figaro (Il barbiere di Siviglia) with Portland Opera, Ping at the Cincinnati
Opera Festival and Figaro (Il barbiere di Sivigla), Marcello (La Boheme) and
Cyrano at the Michigan Opera Theater; and Cyrano and L’Enfant et les
Sortileges at the Opera Compnay of Philadelphia.
Further international engagements include: il Conte Almaviva (Le Nozze di
Figaro) and Marcello (La Boheme) at the Teatro Muncipale di Santiago di
Chile; Malatesta (Don Pasquale) with the New Israeli Opera.
In his native Romania, Mr. Pop has appeared as Don Giovanni, il Conte di
Luna (Il Trovatore), Der König (Die Kluge), Procolo (Viva la Mamma),
Marcello (La Boheme) and Dandini (Le Cenerentola). His Romanian oratorio
credits include Carmina Burana, Mahler Symphony No. 9 and the Fauré
Requiem.
Marian Pop’s international recital and concert engagements include: Carmina
Burana and the Brahms Requiem at the Teatro Municipal di Santiago di Chile;
an aria evening in Bayreuth, Germany and a tour of La Cenerentola and Viva
la Mamma to Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and Great Britain with the
Musical Theatre of Brasov.
Future engagements include Figaro (Il barbiere di Siviglia) at Oper Leipzig
and at Arizona Opera, Silvio (I Pagliacci) at the Portland Opera, Mercutio
(Romeo et Juliette) at Opera Company of Philadelphia, and Zurga (Les
Pêcheurs de Perles) at the Michigan Opera Theatre.
MARIAN POP
Vocal Category: Baritone
Representation: Europe
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Cyrano: Michigan/Philadelphia
Beckmesser: Stuttgart
Dandini: Vienna/Miami
Falke: St Gallen/Vienna
Figaro: Leipzig/MIchigan/Santiago
Malatesta: Portland/Tel Aviv/Vienna
Marcello: MIchigan/Santiago
Ulisse: Stuttgart
Valentin: Basel/Vienna
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In the title role, the young French
baritone Marian Pop is almost too good:
Even with his distended nose, he sings
so well and commands the stage so
effortlessly, you can't see why his
beloved Roxane goes for anyone else.
But the depths of his characterization
were in non-vocal moments: He listens
and reacts with palpable eloquence
The Philadelphia Enquirer