Marc Deaton made his debut as Tristan this season with the Bulgarian Festival Orchestra in Sofia, Bulgaria, as part of a complete recording of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde for Titanic Records, due in stores in Fall of 2004. OPERA JAPONICA said. "Deaton is a worthy Tristan with a sonorous dramatic sound". AMCHAM BULGARIA MAGAZINE said: "The quality of the concert was world-caliber. Deaton brought heroic power and great lyricism to Tristan, capturing the character's tragic consequences with great strength and vocal beauty. He never seemed to tire, even in the long passages of Act III.

As a result of his success in Sofia, he has been invited by the Sofia National Opera to appear in 2005 as Samson in Samson et Dalila, and in future seasons as Tannhäuser and Lohengrin. Additionally, this season, Mr. Deaton sang Peter Quint in Britten's The Turn of the Screw, with the Bangkok Opera, as part of their International Music Week. During the festival, he performed Wagner excerpts with Bangkok Symphonietta, at the inaugural concert for the Wagner Society of Thailand, in the presence of Wolfgang Wagner among others.

Due to his success in Bangkok, he returned there in May 2004 for Calaf in Turandot, where THE NATION said: "Headstrong but Innocent, Calaf was masterfully fleshed out by golden-voiced tenor Marc Deaton, who displayed a wonderfully flexible vibrato while effortlessly scaling the requisite top notes in such showstoppers as Nessun dorma!" He is scheduled to perform Radames in Aida in 2005. Also this season, he will be appearing with the Oregon Mozart Players singing Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings.

Last season he covered the title role in Otello with Opera Tampa, and reprised his role of the Roasted Swan in Carmina Burana with the Pennsylvania Ballet, and performed the tenor solo in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at St. John the Divine, for their prestigious Concert for Peace.

Mr. Deaton has sung throughout the world in a variety of roles ranging from Bacchus in Ariadne auf Naxos, Samson in Samson et Dalila, and Florestan in Fidelio, to Manrico in Il Trovatore, Don Jose in Carmen and the Duke in Strauss' Eine Nacht in Venedig.

Highlights from recent seasons include Samson in Samson et Dalila and Radames in Aida with the National Theatre of Bucharest, Radames in Aida with the Lake Charles Symphony, Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus with Mississippi Opera, Herodes in Salome with Operaworks NYC, Siegfried with San Francisco Lyric Opera, and Luigi in Il Tabarro at Lincoln Center.

Mr. Deaton made his European operatic debut as Manrico in Il Trovatore as the first American to sing in Opave, Czech Republic. He made his Vienna operatic debut as the Student Arkenholz in Reimann's Die Gespenstersonate, and followed the next season with The Male Chorus in Britten's The Rape of Lucretia, both to critical acclaim. Some recent highlights from the concert stage include: Mahler's Das lied von der Erde at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, Haydn's Heiligmesse at Carnegie Hall, and Carmina Burana with Pennsylvania Ballet. He was the tenor soloist in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with Santa Fe Symphony, and Kalamazoo Symphony, and the tenor soloist in Orff's Carmina Burana with Syracuse Symphony and Opera in the Pacific in Guam, which marked Mr. Deaton's 99th performance of Carmina Burana.