Opera Singer. A mezzo soprano, she is remembered for her career at the Metropolitan Opera. Born Marcia Maree Baldwin, little is recorded of her early life save that she took to music early and made her October 17, 1963 Metropolitan debut as Javotte from Massenet's "Manon". Over the next 14 seasons, she was heard 463 times at the Met, some of her assignments major roles such as Siebel in Gounod's "Faust", Mercedes of Bizet's "Carmen", Stephano from Gounod's "Romeo et Juliette", and Cherubino in Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro". Marcia was to earn great respect as a comprimario, one of the all-too-often nameless artists who go onstage every night to perform a wide variety of parts in a multiplicity of languages, thereby providing the backbone of opera, her repertoire including Tebaldo of Verdi's "Don Carlos", both Suzuki and Kate Pinkerton in Puccini's "Madame Butterfly", at least three Wagnerian ladies, Magdalena of "Die Meistersinger", Wellgunde from "Gotterdammerung", and Siegrune in "Die Walkure", Flora from Verdi's "La Traviata", Liza of Tchaikovsky's "The Queen of Spades", a Genie in Mozart's "The Magic Flute", a Priestess from Verdi's "Aida", both Annina and Marianne of Richard Strauss' "Der Rosenkavalier", and Inez in Verdi's "Il Trovatore". Marcia bade farewell to the stage with a February 24, 1977 performance as Siegrune, then launched a second career as a vocal pedagogue, holding a professorship at the Eastman Rochester School of Music while teaching and conducting Master Classes at Indiana University, Loyola University of New Orleans, Washington State University, the University of Oregon, and elsewhere. Following her retirement to Professor Emerita status, she lived out her days in Eugene; at her demise she could be heard as Mercedes in a complete DG "Carmen" featuring Marilyn Horne as the title 'Cigarette Girl' with Leonard Bernstein on the podium, as well as on a large number of archived Met broadcasts.