Northwestern University Bienen School of Music - B.M.
The Juilliard School - M.M.
Marie Engle is an American mezzo-soprano currently based in Evanston, IL, where she is pursuing her Doctor of Musical Arts degree at Northwestern University with W. Stephen Smith. Marie completed her Master of Music degree at the Juilliard School with the late Marlena Malas in New York City. She also spent two years in Vienna studying German and Lieder, and a year in Paris studying French and mélodie.
As a teacher, Marie has been guiding students ages 6 to 70 since 2014. Versed in repertoires from pop to classical, she believes that good singing starts from releasing tension and finding your own voice as you sing. Notably, Marie gave voice lessons to the members of the band Girl Named Tom, a sibling trio who won NBC’s The Voice in 2021.
In addition to her musical studies, Marie is also an improv comedian, trained at The Second City (Brooklyn and Chicago). Marie loves Japanese tea and thrift-shopping.
Marie’s operatic roles include Dorabella in Moazrt’s Così fan tutte (OperaDelaware), Donna Elvira in Mozart’s Don Giovanni (Wichita Grand Opera), Ramiro in Mozart’s La finta giardiniera (Juilliard Opera), Romeo in Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Chautauqua) and Mercédès in Bizet’s Carmen (Chautauqua). Marie studied at the Chautauqua Institution during the summers of 2018 and 2019 and was a young artist at Opera Delaware in 2020.
Besides her work in opera, Marie is an active recitalist and chamber musician. In 2021 and 2022, she joined the musicians of the Marlboro Music Festival for two wonderful summers of classical chamber music. In 2019, Marie joined Matthew Polenzani and Julius Drake in their Carnegie Hall recital performance of Janáček’s The Diary of One who Disappeared.
Marie produces and performs chamber music recitals around the US, Canada and Austria, including several tours of Jake Heggie’s The Deepest Desire, for mezzo-soprano, flute and piano, and the 2021 debut of her musical autobiography, From a Bulb: Regrowth after Loss, a chamber concert-drama featuring diverse repertoire and self-written monologues.
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