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 before studying singing at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London from 1995 to 1998.
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 and New Zealand 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 Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Radio Orchestra,60 Jahre Münchner Rundfunkorchester: Veranstaltungen und Sendungen Münchner Rundfunkorchester BR-KLASSIK Radio Br.de 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. Originally created to release his own recordings, the label expanded, as Stone began to release discs from other artists, and the catalogue now includes vocal, choral, orchestral and instrumental music. Artists include American guitarist Aaron Larget-Caplan with the 2015 issue of 'The Legend of Hagoromo'.
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 Bellini La straniera Valdeburgo Opera Rara Berlioz Béatrice et Bénédict Claudio Welsh National Opera Les Troyens Chef grec London Symphony Orchestra Bernstein Candide Maximillian English National Opera BizetCarmen Escamillo Opera NorthDjamileh Splendiano Opera North Britten Albert Herring Sid British Youth Opera,Mark Stone - Mark Stone Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg A Midsummer Night's Dream Demetrius Opera North Billy Budd Bosun London Symphony Orchestra Curlew River Ferryman Barbican Centre,Gloriana Mountjoy Opera North, Royal Opera House Peter Grimes Ned Keane London Philharmonic Orchestra The Rape of Lucretia Junius Britten-Pears Orchestra De Falla La vida breve Manuel Opera North DonizettiIl campanelloEnricoBuxton Festival 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 Handel Acis and Galatea Polyphemus Gabrieli ConsortLa resurezzione Lucifero Opera AtelierSerse Elviro Royal Swedish OperaTolomeo Araspe Broomhill Opera Haydn La fedeltà premiata Melibeo Guildhall School of Music and Drama Janáček The Cunning Little Vixen Harašta Opera North Willem JethsHôtel de Pékin Baritone Concertgebouw Lehár Die lustige Witwe Danilo Opéra national de Montpellier Martinů Ariane Thesée Guildhall School of Music and Drama Leoncavallo I pagliacci Silvio Opera North, English National Opera Mascagni Cavalleria rusticana Alfio English Touring Opera MassenetManon Lescaut Opera North Messager Veronique Florestan Buxton Festival Mozart Così fan tutte Guglielmo British Youth Opera, Opera Holland Park, Grange Park Opera, Santa Fe Opera, English National Opera Die Zauberflöte Papageno Opera Company of Philadelphia, Don Giovanni Don Giovanni Opera Company of Philadelphia, Opéra national de Montpellier, Dartington Festival, Opera North, English National Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Hamburg Opera, The NBR New Zealand Opera Le nozze di Figaro Il Conte d'Almaviva Opera Holland Park, English National Opera, Classical Opera Company, Cologne OperaTampere Opera Le nozze di Figaro Figaro Garsington Opera, The NBR New Zealand Opera Le nozze di Figaro Bartolo Britten-Pears Orchestra Prokofiev The Gambler Mr Astley Royal Opera House Puccini Gianni Schicchi Gianni Schicchi Opera Company of Philadelphia 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 Rossini Guillaume Tell Guillaume Tell Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y Léon Il barbiere di Siviglia Figaro Guildhall School of Music and Drama, English National Opera, Opera Holland Park Il campanello Enrico Buxton Festival 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 SondheimSweeney ToddSweeney Todd Munich Radio Orchestra Strauss, J Die Fledermaus Eisenstein Welsh National Opera Strauss, RAriadne auf NaxosMusiklehrerDartington FestivalIntermezzoRobert StorchGarsington OperaDer RosenkavalierFaninalCity of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Sullivan The Yeomen of the Guard Jack Point BBC Proms Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin Onegin Glyndebourne, Israeli Opera, Opera Holland ParkIolanta Robert Opera Holland Park Pique dame Yeletsky Opéra national de Montpellier, Opera Holland Park Tippett King Priam Hector Nationale Reisopera, Brighton Festival Verdi Falstaff Ford Opera Company of Philadelphia La forza del destino Don Carlo Opera Holland Park La traviata Germont Opera Company of Philadelphia Wagner Die Feen Morald Chelsea Opera Group Weber Der Freischütz Ottokar Opéra national de Montpellier
Concert
Composer Works AdèsTotentanz AuerbachDresden Requiem Bach, J.S.B Minor Mass, Christmas Oratorio, St John Passion, St Matthew Passion Bach, C.P.E.Magnificat BrahmsA German Requiem BrittenWar Requiem CarrRequiem for an Angel CorpAnd all the Trumpets Sounded DeliusSea Drift DurufléRequiem ElgarThe Apostles, Coronation Ode, The Dream of Gerontius FauréRequiem GlassSymphony No. 5 HandelMessiah HaydnNelson Mass MacMillanJohn Passion MahlerSymphony No. 8 MartinGolgotha MendelssohnElijah MozartMass in C, Mass in C minor, Requiem OrffCarmina Burana RachmaninovThe Bells RossiniPetite Messe Solenelle, Stabat Mater PucciniMessa di Gloria TippettA Child of our Time Vaughan WilliamsA Sea Symphony, Serenade to Music WaltonBelshazzar's Feast
Discography Year Title With Label 2014 The complete Quilter songbook Vol.II Stephen Barlow Stone Records The complete John Ireland songbook Vol.I Sholto Kynoch Stone Records 2013 The complete Quilter songbook Vol.I Stephen Barlow Stone Records Roxanna Panufnik's Love Abide London Mozart Players, Lee Ward Warner Classics 2012Sondheim's Sweeney ToddMünchner Rundfunkorchester, Ulf SchirmerBR-KlassikThe runaway bunnyCatherine Zeta-Jones, Michael Douglas, Glen RovenGPR Records Requiem Æternam (Duruflé's Requiem) The Choir of Somerville College Oxford, David Crown Stone Records The complete C.W. Orr songbook - volume 2 Simon Lepper Stone Records Britten's War Requiem Radio Filharmonisch Orkest, Jaap van Zweden Challenge Classics The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 1 Sholto Kynoch Stone Records 2011 The complete C.W. Orr songbook - volume 1 Simon Lepper Stone Records The complete Delius songbook - volume 2 Stephen Barlow Stone Records Ronald Corp's And all the Trumpets Sounded Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Ronald Corp Dutton The complete Delius songbook - volume 1 Stephen Barlow Stone Records Time to Time Onyx Brass Meridian Records 2010 In my craft or sullen art Glen Roven GPR Records Paul Carr: Requiem for an Angel Bath Philharmonia, Gavin Carr Stone Records The songs of Ronald Corp Simon Lepper Stone Records The complete Butterworth songbook Stephen Barlow Stone Records Offenbach's Vert-Vert Philharmonia Orchestra, David Parry Opera Rara 2009 Gibbs' Odysseus BBC Concert Orchestra, David Drummond Dutton English love Stephen Barlow Stone Records 2008 Britten's Billy Budd London Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding Virgin Records Bellini's La Straniera Philharmonia Orchestra, David Parry Opera Rara 2007 The complete Quilter songbook Vol.I Stephen Barlow Sony BMG 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 2000 The Magic of Inspector Morse Exeter College Choir, Barrington Pheloung Virgin Records
References
External links Artist's website Management website CD label website