LIBRETTIST | CORE FACULTY
Mark Campbell
Mark Campbell is one of the most in-demand librettists in the world, profiled in Opera News as "poised...to become a major force in opera in the coming decade." He joined the ALT faculty in the winter of 2012.
Mark has written fifteen librettos, but his most known work is the libretto for the opera Silent Night, which garnered the 2012 Pulitzer in Music for composer Kevin Puts. Since its premiere at Minnesota Opera, the opera has been broadcast on PBS' Great Performances and entered the repertory with unprecedented rapidity with productions at Opera Philadelphia, Ft. Worth Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Calgary Opera, Ireland's Wexford Festival, Lyric Opera of Kansas City and Opéra de Montréal.
Other successful operas include: Later the Same Evening, Volpone, As One, Bastianello/Lucrezia, A Letter to East 11th Street, The Inspector, Rappahannock County, Approaching Ali and The Manchurian Candidate. Mark has collaborated with many notable contemporary composers, including Mark Adamo, Mason Bates, Lembit Beecher, William Bolcom, Conrad Cummings, Ricky Ian Gordon, Jake Heggie, Martin Hennessy, Laura Kaminsky, Missy Mazzoli, Marisa Michelson, Paul Moravec, John Musto, Paola Prestini, Kevin Puts, Richard Peaslee, D.J. Sparr, and Michael Torke.
Mark has received many other prestigious prizes for his work, including a Grammy® nomination for best Classical Recording, the first Kleban Foundation Award for Lyricist, two Richard Rodgers Awards, three Drama Desk nominations, a Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation Award, a New York Foundation for the Arts Playwriting Fellowship and the Dominic J. Pelliciotti Award. Mark has also been awarded residencies at The Hermitage, The MacDowell Colony, Ucross Foundation, and the Sundance Theatre Lab.