With a voice described as having a “rich vocal range full of inviting nuance,” Malcolm MacKenzie is quickly capturing attention in the dramatic baritone repertoire. Opera News recently raved that "his rich, warm, and dark tone was bolstered by a relentless legato line which amplified the sensuous sleaziness of his Scarpia" and praised him as a “confident, commanding Count di Luna… of robust tone, ardent address, arching phrases and genuine baritonal squillo." 

​Mr. MacKenzie has been heard at leading opera houses throughout the U.S. and Europe, appearing at the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Paris Opera (Bastille), Finland’s Savonlinna Festival, Washington National Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, San Diego Opera, Arizona Opera, Fort Worth Opera, and Pittsburgh Opera, in roles including Simon Boccanegra, Baron Scarpia, Rigoletto, Iago, Tonio, Don Giovanni, Count di Luna, Renato, Jack Rance, Marcello, Germont, and Count Almaviva.   

Most recently, MacKenzie reprised his performance of Mark Torrence in The Shining at The Atlanta Opera, sang Germont in La Traviata with both Eugene Opera and Knoxville Opera, was seen as Uncle John in Ricky Ian Gordon and Michael Korie’s The Grapes of Wrath with MasterVoices in his Carnegie Hall début, and covered Owen/Johnson in Omar and the father-in-law in Kaija  Saariaho's Innocence at San Francisco Opera.  Upcoming in the 24/25 season, he will return to the Metropolitan Opera stage to sing the role of Stubb in their production of Moby Dick, and he sings Sharpless in Madama Butterfly with both Austin Opera and Opera San Antonio.
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In 2022, Mr. MacKenzie created the role of Johnson/Owen in the World Premier of the Pulitzer Prize winning opera Omar, by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels.