Baritone

Mark Stone

Der Rosenkavalier

Biography

Baritone Mark Stone studied Mathematics at King's College, Cambridge, and singing at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. In 1998 he was awarded the Decca Prize at the Kathleen Ferrier Awards. Recent operatic engagements include his first foray into Wagner roles with acclaimed role debuts as Wotan in Die Walküre (Grimeborn), for which he was nominated for an Offie Award for best performance in an opera, Gunther in Götterdämmerung (Grand Théâtre de Genève) and Alberich in Das Rheingold (Longborough Festival). He also sang White Knight in Gerald Barry’s Alice's Adventures Under Ground (Royal Opera House), Papageno in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (Welsh National Opera, Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, Valencia), Balstrode in Britten’s Peter Grimes (Queensland Opera, Australia) and returned to the Philadelphia Opera for Protector in George Benjamin’s Written on Skin. Upcoming highlights include Sharpless in Puccini’s Madame Butterfly (Welsh National Opera), Alberich in Wagner’s Siegfried (Longborough Festival), the Count in Elena Langer’s Figaro Gets a Divorce (Theater Magdeburg) and Gallimard in the world premiere of Huang Ruo’s M. Butterfly (Santa Fe Opera). On the concert platform He gives further performances of Thomas Adès’s Totentanz conducted by the composer in Vienna and Budapest and Elgar’s The Kingdom with the Krákow Philharmonic. In 2020 he was nominated for a Grammy Award for his recording of’ Totentanz with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

May 2022