Mark Stone (baritone)

Mark Stone is a British baritone appearing in concerts, recitals, and opera.

Biography

Born in London 12 June 1969, he studied at Wilson's School, Wallington before going up to King's College, Cambridge to read Mathematics. After graduating in 1990 he worked as a Chartered Accountant and an investment banker before studying singing at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London from 1995 to 1998.

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), Leipzig Opera, the Royal Swedish Opera, Nationale Reisoper (Enschede), Israeli Opera and New Zealand 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 Bamberg Symphony 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.

He is a director of the CD label Stone Records.

Operatic repertoire

Adams: Nixon in China (Chou En-lai) Adès: Cyrano de Bergerac (Sebastian) Alfano: Cyrano de Bergerac (Valvert) Argento: The Aspern Papers (The lodger) Bellini: La straniera (Valdeburgo) Berlioz: Béatrice et Bénédict (Claudio); Les Troyens (Chorèbe) Bernstein: Candide (Maximillian) Bizet: Carmen (Escamillo); Djamileh (Splendiano) Britten: Albert Herring (Sid); A Midsummer Night's Dream (Demetrius); Billy Budd (Billy Budd); Death in Venice (Traveller); Gloriana (Mountjoy); Owen Wingrave (Owen Wingrave); Peter Grimes (Ned Keane); The Rape of Lucretia (Junius/Tarquinius) Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande (Pelleas) De Falla: La vida breve (Manuel) Donizetti: Don Pasquale (Malatesta); L'elisir d'amore (Belcore); Lucia di Lammermoor (Enrico); Roberto Devereux (Nottingham) Gluck: Alceste (High priest); Iphigénie en Tauride (Oreste) Gounod: Faust (Valentin) Handel: Acis and Galatea (Polyphemus); La resurezzione (Lucifero); Serse (Elviro); Tolomeo (Araspe) Janáček: The Cunning Little Vixen (Harašta) Lehár: Die lustige Witwe (Danilo)

Leoncavallo: I pagliacci (Silvio) Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana (Alfio) Massenet: Don Quichotte (Sancho Panza); Manon (Lescaut) Messager: Veronique (Florestan) Mozart: Così fan tutte (Guglielmo); Die Zauberflöte (Papageno); Don Giovanni (Don Giovanni): Le nozze di Figaro (Il Conte d'Almaviva) Prokofiev: The Gambler (Mr Astley/Unlucky gambler) Puccini: Gianni Schicchi (Gianni Schicchi); La bohème (Marcello); La fanciulla del West (Sonora); Madama Butterfly (Sharpless); Manon Lescaut (Lescaut) Ravel: L'heure espagnole (Ramiro) Rossini: Guillaume Tell (Guillaume Tell); Il barbiere di Siviglia (Figaro); Il campanello (Enrico): La Cenerentola (Dandini); Le comte Ory (Raimbaud); L'occasione fa il ladro (Parmenione); Il turco in Italia (Prosdocimo) Strauss, J: Die Fledermaus (Eisenstein/Falke) Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin (Onegin); Iolanta (Robert); Pique dame (Yeletsky) Tippett: King Priam (Hector) Verdi: Don Carlo (Rodrigo); Falstaff (Ford); La forza del destino (Don Carlo); La traviata (Germont) Weber: Der Freischütz (Ottakar)

Discography

• The complete Delius songbook - volume 2 (with Stephen Barlow - piano) Stone Records (2011)
• Ronald Corp's And all the Trumpets Sounded (with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Ronald Corp - conductor), Dutton (2011)
• The complete Delius songbook - volume 1 (with Stephen Barlow - piano) Stone Records (2011)
• Time to Time (with Onyx Brass) Meridian Records (2011)
• In my craft or sullen art (with Glen Roven - piano) GPR Records (2010)
• Paul Carr: Requiem For An Angel (with Sophie Bevan - soprano, Chorus Angelorum, the Bath Philharmonia, Gavin Carr - conductor), Stone Records (2010)
• The songs of Ronald Corp (with Simon Lepper - piano), Stone Records (2010)
• The complete Butterworth songbook (with Stephen Barlow - piano), Stone Records (2010)
• Offenbach's Vert Vert (with the Philharmonia Orchestra, David Parry - conductor), Opera Rara (2010)
• Gibbs' Odysseus (with the BBC Concert Orchestra, David Drummond - conductor), Dutton (2009)
• English love (with Stephen Barlow - piano), Stone Records (2008)
• Britten's Billy Budd (with the London Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding - conductor), Virgin Records (2008)
• Bellini's La Straniera (with the Philharmonia Orchestra, David Parry - conductor), Opera Rara (2008)
• The complete Quilter songbook Vol.I (with Stephen Barlow - piano), Sony BMG (2007)
• Entre Nous (with the Philharmonia Orchestra, David Parry - conductor), Opera Rara (2007)
• The A to Z of Mozart opera (with the Classical Opera Company, Ian Page - conductor), Sony BMG (2007)
• Tchaikovsky Overtures and Fantasies (with the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano - conductor), EMI (2007)
• La Serenata (with David Harper - piano), Opera Rara (2007)
• Ora Divina (with David Harper - piano), Opera Rara (2006)
• Les Troyens (with the London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis - conductor), LSO Live (2001)
• The Magic of Inspector Morse (with Exeter College Choir, Barrington Pheloung - conductor), Virgin Records (2000)

References

• Guardian article 22 December 1998
• Oxford Times article 7 December 2002
• Times article 14 January 2005
• Opera Company of Philadelphia article 27 April 2010
• Artist's website
• Wilson's School website

External links

• Artist's website
• Management website
• CD label website

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