Marie Engle has operatic performance degrees from Northwestern University and the Juilliard School. She has performed Bizet’s Carmen, Poulenc’s La voix humaine, Bellini’s Romeo and Mozart’s Dorabella, Donna Elvira, and Ramiro. Professor Engle has studied and performed a vast amount of classical song literature in recitals throughout the United States and Europe. She studied song repertoire under great masters at the Schubert Institute in Vienna in 2016 and L'académie de Royaumont/d’Orsay in Paris in 2022. She spent two summers singing opera at the Chautauqua Institution and two summers performing chamber music at the Marlboro Music Festival and School. Professor Engle studied French in Paris, German in Vienna, and comedy at the Second City and iO Training Centers in New York and Chicago. She is very interested in creative projects that use comedy and improvisation to elaborate the classical repertoire.