Mark Stone

Mark Stone (born 12 June 1969) is a British baritone appearing in concerts, recitals, and opera.

Biography Early life Born in London, England, he studied at Wilson's School, Wallington, London, before going up to King's College, Cambridge to read mathematics. After graduating in 1990, he worked as a Chartered Accountant and as an investment banker

Performing He made his operatic debut in 1998, singing the role of Escamillo for Opera North, since when he has also appeared in the UK at the Royal Opera House, English National Opera, Glyndebourne and Welsh National Opera. He made his U.S. debut for the Opera Company of Philadelphia and went on to sing at Santa Fe Opera. Elsewhere he has sung for La Scala (Milan), Opera Nationale de Montpellier, Liceu (Barcelona), Deutsche Oper Berlin, Cologne Opera, Leipzig Opera, the Royal Swedish Opera, Nationale Reisoper (Enschede), Israeli Opera

In 2016 he premiered the role of The Count in Elena Langer's opera Figaro Gets a Divorce, for Welsh National Opera.

He appears regularly in concert, having sung with the London Symphony Orchestra, the Hallé Orchestra, the Academy of Ancient Music, the Oxford Lieder Festival, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the BBC Concert Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Radio Orchestra, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (East Berlin), the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y Léon and the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia.

Record producing In 2008 he formed the CD label Stone Records.

Repertoire

Operatic Composer Opera Role Performed Adams Nixon in China Chou En-lai English National Opera Adès The Tempest Sebastian Concertgebouw Alfano Cyrano de Bergerac Valvert Royal Opera House Argento The Aspern Papers The lodger Guildhall School of Music and Drama Les Troyens Chef grec London Symphony Orchestra BizetCarmen Escamillo Opera North Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg Billy Budd Bosun London Symphony Orchestra Curlew River Ferryman Barbican Centre, Gloriana Mountjoy Opera North, Peter Grimes Ned Keane London Philharmonic Orchestra L'elisir d'amore Belcore Welsh National Opera Lucia di Lammermoor Enrico Opera Holland Park, English National Opera, Dove Man on the moon Gene Kranz Channel 4 Gluck Iphigénie en Tauride Oreste Pina Bausch Alceste High Priest Woodbridge Festival Lehár Die lustige Witwe Danilo Opéra national de Montpellier English National Opera Mascagni Cavalleria rusticana Alfio English Touring Opera Mozart Così fan tutte Guglielmo British Youth Opera, Opera Holland Park, Grange Park Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Die Zauberflöte Papageno Opera Company of Philadelphia, Don Giovanni Don Giovanni Opera Company of Philadelphia, English National Opera, Classical Opera Company, Cologne Opera Tampere Opera Le nozze di Figaro Figaro Garsington Opera, The NBR New Zealand Opera La bohème Marcello Opera North, Grange Park Opera, English National Opera La fanciulla del West Sonora Royal Opera House Madama Butterfly Yamadori English National Opera Manon Lescaut Lescaut Leipzig Opera Opera Holland Park L'occasione fa il ladro Parmenione Opera North Il turco in Italia Prosdocimo Garsington Opera Sawer Skin Deep Luke Pollock Opera North Saint-Saëns Samson et Dalila Second Philistine London Symphony Orchestra Der RosenkavalierFaninalCity of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Sullivan The Yeomen of the Guard Jack Point BBC Proms Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin Onegin Glyndebourne, Israeli Opera, Opera Holland Park Iolanta Robert Opera Holland Park Pique dame Yeletsky Opéra national de Montpellier, Opera Holland Park Tippett King Priam Hector Nationale Reisopera, Verdi Falstaff Ford Opera Company of Philadelphia La traviata Germont Opera Company of Philadelphia Wagner Die Feen Morald Chelsea Opera Group Weber Der Freischütz Ottokar Opéra national de Montpellier AuerbachDresden Requiem Bach, J.S.B Minor Mass, St Matthew Passion Bach, C.P.E.Magnificat BrittenWar Requiem CarrRequiem for an Angel CorpAnd all the Trumpets Sounded DeliusSea Drift DurufléRequiem Coronation Ode, The Dream of Gerontius FauréRequiem MacMillanJohn Passion MartinGolgotha MendelssohnElijah RossiniPetite Messe Solenelle, TippettA Child of our Time 2012Sondheim's Sweeney ToddMünchner Rundfunkorchester, Ulf SchirmerBR-Klassik The runaway bunnyCatherine Zeta-Jones, Michael Douglas, Glen RovenGPR Records Requiem Æternam (Duruflé's Requiem) The Choir of Somerville College Oxford, David Crown Stone Records 2010 In my craft or sullen art Glen Roven GPR Records Paul Carr: Requiem for an Angel Bath Philharmonia, Gavin Carr Stone Records 2009 Gibbs' Odysseus BBC Concert Orchestra, David Drummond Dutton Entre Nous (Offenbach compilation) Philharmonia Orchestra, David Parry Opera Rara The A to Z of Mozart opera Classical Opera Company, Ian Page Sony BMG Tchaikovsky Overtures and Fantasies Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano EMI La Serenata David Harper Opera Rara 2006 Ora Divina David Harper Opera Rara 2001 Berlioz's Les Troyens London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis LSO Live