George-Michael Tucci

Formerly known as George Michael Tucci (see mini-series KENNEDY), aka Mick Tucci was active as an actor/singer from the late 1970s into the 1990s and a longtime member of AEA, AFTRA and SAG. As a professional musician (singer, organist and music director) he is a member of AGMA and AGO known as G. Michael Tucci. His acting career has included work on stage, screen, television and radio. He appeared as a background actor and bit player in many films from late 1970s in Boston and during his early years in NYC. He appeared on prime time and day time television (appearing many times on the now discontinued soap opera "Another World"), in commercials and industrial films and in print, including many years working as a professional hand model. A few years after appearing as a principal actor in the NYU student film of Salvador Carrasco (see The Other Conquest), Mr. Carrasco introduced him to Alvaro Domingo (son of opera singer-conductor Placido Domingo). He appeared as principal actor in a short (film) co-directed by Alvaro Domingo and Salvador Carrasco and produced by Placido Domingo. In 1983, he was featured playing Secret Service attaché George Dalton in the NBC-BBC co-produced mini-series "Kennedy" which starred Martin Sheen, Blair Brown, E.G. Marshall, Geraldine Fitzgerald and John Shea. He also appeared as a police officer in the film "Last Exit to Brooklyn." Off Broadway he worked with Kathy Bates and Kate Burton at the WPA Theatre in NYC. In 1989 he began to devote more of his career to classical music working in opera and then in 1992 also working in sacred music. With strong musical roots and a love of classical and sacred music, his career has spanned 40 years as a professional in those fields. As a singer in classical music, he has performed with a number symphony orchestras, choral ensembles and opera companies including the Boston Pops and Boston Symphony, the Opera Company of Boston, Boston Lyric Opera, and as a soloist with the Boston Summer Opera. He sang several seasons with the ensemble of the Metropolitan Opera Co at Lincoln Center NYC and in three TV broadcasts of "Live from the MET" in addition to participating in two recordings of Richard Wagner's operas "Gotterdammerung" (a Grammy winning recording) and "Parsifal". With the ensemble of the New York City Opera at Lincoln Center he sang in productions for at least 23 seasons, this also included participation in several "Live from Lincoln Center" TV broadcasts. Additionally, he performed on the NYC Opera National Touring Company's 13 week 1991 US-Canada tour. He has sung with many distinguished ensembles in NYC at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall and Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center, on stage in Central Park and in many churches in NYC. As a professional sacred musician (singer, organist & music director), Tucci has been engaged by many churches and temples through the years in western Pa., Ohio, Boston and greater NYC. He was honored to serve as guest cantor for the televised public memorial Mass at Old St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City for the late John Kennedy, Junior.