Lyric tenor Mark T. Panuccio is earning sensational acclaim from both audiences and critics. In the summer 2008, he made his debut as Edgard in Lucie de Lammermoor with Cincinnati Opera. Opera News said, “Panuccio held the audience in the palm of his hand as he softly yet strongly projected the young hero’s dilemma through delicate pianissimos. His warm lyric tenor was a marvel of vocal magic.” The Cincinnati Opera also presented Mr. Panuccio in a recital celebrating Italian song. The Cincinnati Enquirer said, “From a roar to a wisp of a tone, Mark Panuccio's voice has a fullness and focus, a startling presence, and a compelling communicative power that electrifies the audience.”

In the fall 2008, Mr. Panuccio made his Lyric Opera of Chicago debut as Des Grieux in Massenet’s Manon, his Nashville Opera debut as Prince Karl in The Student Prince, and returned to Chicago to cover Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly. In 2009, he performs Anthony in Sweeney Todd at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Teatro Rossini in Lugo, and Teatro Comunale di Modena; performs Rodolfo in La Bohème with the Greater Bridgeport Symphony; and Alfredo in La Traviata at the Kentucky Opera.

In the recent 2007-2008 Season, he performed Alfredo in La Traviata with Michigan Opera Theatre, Duke in Rigoletto with New Orleans Opera, Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor with Arizona Opera, Edgard in Lucie de Lammermoor with Cincinnati Opera, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Honolulu Symphony, Aeneas in Dido and Aeneas with the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, Verdi Requiemwith the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, an Italian aria concert with the Pasadena Pops Orchestra.

Previous recent engagements include Mao Tse-tung in John Adams’s Nixon in China with Cincinnati Opera, Casey in the world premiere of Margaret Garner by Richard Danilepour with Michigan Opera Theatre, Cincinnati Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia and Opera Carolina, and internationally appeared at Il Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy for five consecutive festivals with the composer Gian Carlo Menotti. He is featured on the new recording of Menotti’s The Saint of Bleecker Street under the baton of Richard Hickox on the Chandos Label.

Frequent concert performances include the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Nashville Symphony, Greensboro Symphony, Cincinnati May Festival, Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia, Sioux City Symphony, Portland Baroque Orchestra, and the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra. Concert repertoire includes Britten’s Nocturne, War Requiem, Saint Nicolas, and The Company of Heaven, Verdi’s Requiem, Beethoven’s Symphony No.9, J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion and St. John Passion, Mozart’s Requiem, Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s Creation and Mass in Time of War, Mendelssohn’s Elijah and Orff’s Carmina Burana.

Mr. Panuccio has collaborated with noted conductors such as Klaus Arp, Giordano Bellincampi, Luis Biava, James Conlon, Stéphane DenPve, Victor DeRenzi, Joseph Flummerfelt, Marc Gibson, Alan Harler, Richard Hickox, Karen Keltner, Stefan Lano, Christopher Larkin, Steven Lord, Steven Mercurio, Donald Nally, Emmanuel Plasson, Robert Porco, John Morris Russell, Brian Salesky, Alessandro Siciliani, Robin Stamper, Patrick Summers, Martin Wright, Marco Zembelli, Xian Zhang and Christopher Zimmerman.