George Maran

Who was George Maran?

George Alfred Maran was an American Opera, Oratorio, and Concert Tenor. Born near Boston, Massachusetts. Maran attended Harvard University where he and his voice came to the attention of people such as Leonard Bernstein and Paul Hindemith. He first drew international attention when he won the “Mozart-Medaille” from the Mozarteum International Foundation in Salzburg in 1956 on Mozart’s 200th birthday. The same year, and the next forty years thereafter, he was a soloist at the Opera in Darmstadt, Germany. Even so, he continued singing all over Europe and the United States, the world premiere of A Midsummer Night's Dream with Benjamin Britten conducting as a prime example. He has sung many wide-ranging and varied genres as soloist in Opera, Operetta, Oratorio, and on the concert stage.