Eric Margiore

Founder & Artistic Director

Vocal Arts Institute Founder & Artistic Director, World-Class Tenor, Eric Margiore, prides himself on a deep knowledge and understanding of the full throated vocal technique and style of the Golden Age Italian School, as well as an intense comprehension and appreciation of the great singers of that same era.  Having successfully transitioned from baritone to tenor in his early career, intensively working with many of the prominent voice teachers, maestros, and clinical vocalogists, in New York as well as internationally, hundreds of hours, and having then applied the methodology and research into hundreds of hours of real time experience on the some of the world’s great opera stages, Eric has developed a balanced method and approach to vocal technique that is clear, focused, and systematic. He has been privately sought after by all voice parts and is intimately versed in opera’s technical demands and nuances; that he can intellectually explain in theory, while clearly demonstrate in vocal example.

Eric has performed worldwide in an array of the Romantic Leading Tenor repertoire with a specialty in Verdi and Puccini, as his most reprised roles being, Rodolfo in La Boheme, Alfredo in La Traviata, Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, and Verdi’s, Requiem. He has performed those roles under the baton of such inimitable maestros as, Donald Runnicles, Carlo Rizzi, Steven Mercurio, and Stephen Lord to name just a few, and at many of the prestigious international opera houses including, San Francisco Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, New York City Opera, Opera Hong Kong, St. Margarethen Opera Festival, Opera Holland Park, Michigan Opera Theatre and many more, as well as with some of the top symphony orchestras in the United States, in venues such as Carnegie Hall, and Radio City Music Hall.

Eric has been recognized by, and a winner of, prestigious awards, including from the Sullivan Foundation, Opera Index, the Giulio Gari Foundation, the Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation, Placido Domingo’s Operalia, Lyric Opera of Chicago and Houston Grand Opera International Studio's, as well as a Metropolitan Opera National Semi-Finalist. Mr. Margiore is an Italian American and New York native, of Sicilian and Neapolitan roots that imbue and energize his entire operatic being. He and holds music degrees from New York University and the Mannes College of Music, while also receiving his formal young artist training at Glimmerglass Opera, Chautauqua Opera, and the Opera Theatre of St. Louis.