Mark Freiman

Singer

A recipient of the prestigious Richard F. Gold Career Grant from the Shoshana Foundation, Mark Freiman has sung with opera companies and orchestras throughout the country, including the St. Louis Symphony and two national tours with N.Y. City Opera. He is featured as William Jennings Bryan on the Sony Newport Classics CD of "The Ballad of Baby Doe," and spent a year in Hamburg in the German-language production of "The Phantom of the Opera." This season he was the stage director of "Lucia di Lammermoor" at Sarasota Opera (Florida), and this summer he directs "Carmen" for Union Avenue Opera (St. Louis). A child soloist for three seasons with the Metropolitan Opera, he sang a solo in their very first live telecast, "La Bohème" starring Luciano Pavarotti. He trained at New York City’s venerable Amato Opera.