Biography

Marcie Stapp, author of The Singer's Guide to Languages, is a well-known vocal coach, accompanist, and translator whose operatic translations are performed by leading music schools and professional companies across the country. She taught English and French at the Mangold Institute in Madrid, and has served as conductor/coach for the Academy of Vocal Arts, the Curtis Institute of Music, Indiana University, the California State University System, the Mozart Opera Studies Institute in Austria, Japan's Osaka College of Music and Sakai City Opera, the Gernot-Heindl Opera Studio in Munich, San Francisco Opera Center and Hawaii Opera Theatre among others, and is currently a faculty member of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the San Miguel Institute of Bel Canto (Mexico). Ms. Stapp has accompanied the master classes of Margaret Harshaw, Renato Capecchi, Max Rudolf, Jess Thomas, and Gerhard Hüsch, and appeared in recital with members of the Metropolitan, San Francisco and New York City Opera companies. For many years she collaborated with the Metropolitan Opera's renowned diction coach Nico Castel as editor of his popular Opera Libretti Series and co-director of the Castel/Stapp Master Classes.