Marco Schindelmann, Artist Professor of Voice and Director of the University Opera, has performed as a soloist, throughout Europe and Japan, with such organizations as the Bayerische Staatsoper, Bayersische Staatsballet and Radio Vaticana. Roles he has performed include those of Don Giovanni (Don Giovanni), Conte Almaviva (Le Nozze di Figaro), Giorgio Germont (La Traviata), Alfio (Cavalleria Rusticana), Silvio (I Pagliacci) and der König (Die Kluge). Professor Schindelmann completed his vocal training under the tutelage of Egidia Bonessi (American Forces Network, German/Italian Culture Exchange, Milan, Parma, Vienna, Weimar, Dresden Berlin, Munich et al.) Kammersänger Fritz Schaetzler (Munich, Stuttgart, Breslau, Prague, Bordeux et al.) and Kammersängerin Astrid Varnay (New York, Munich, Bayreuth, Vienna et al.) as well as participated in workshops and master classes lead by Hans Hotter, Nan Merriman, Martial Singher, Blanche Thebom and Giorgio Tozzi.

In addition to several opera galas, Marco has produced and directed at the University of Redlands Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Mediu; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Don Giovanni; Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas; an original “popera electronica” entitled Ego (MLuM); and a newly commissioned work, The Blue Moose, by Daniel Pinkwater and Daniel Tucker. As a vocalist, Marco has performed at the U of R  a number works including Engelbert Humperdick’s Hansel and Gretel, Kurt Weill’s Der Lindberghflug, P.D.Q. Bach’s Iphigenia in Brooklyn, Sir William Walton’s Facade and Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire.

Active as a subterranean composer and performance artist, Schindelmann has appeared with, among others, the Redlands New Music Ensemble, Scary Culture and W.E.E. He is also a founding member of MLuM, a Long Beach based subterranean music and performance art ensemble whose work has been featured on Public Radio stations across the country as well as presented at new music and sound art venues across the Southland (Il Corral, Music Box Henry Fonda Theater, Smithsonian Week et. al.). As a member of FLOOD, Marco is a co-producer of SoundWalk, a Long Beach, CA. based sound event dedicated to sound art and sound installation by local and international artists. In addition, he is also a creative facilitator and participant in various conceptual multi-media performance opuses, conceived and presented by FLOOD, for such events as Smithsonian Week for the city of Long Beach and SoundDOWNTOWN for the city of Santa Ana.

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