Mark Stone baritone

Mark Stone was born in London and 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.

A rising star on the operatic stage, he was nominated in the category of ‘Breakthrough Artists’ in the 2005 South Bank Show Awards. His powerful portrayal of Don Giovanni at the English National Opera was hailed in The Times as ‘brilliant', describing Stone as 'a bundle of vicious sexual energy with charm and menace to spare’.

Other roles at ENO include Count Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), Guglielmo (Così fan tutte), Marcello (La bohème), Enrico (Lucia di Lammermoor), Rossini's Figaro, Chou En-lai (Nixon in China) and Yamadori in Minghella's production of 'Madam Butterfly'. At the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden he has sung Sonora (La Fanciulla del West) and Valvert (Cyrano de Bergerac). He has sung the title role in 'Eugene Onegin' at Glyndebourne and Escamillo (Carmen), Marcello and Demetrius (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) at Opera North. In the U.S. he has sung Ford (Falstaff) for Philadelphia Opera and Guglielmo in Santa Fe.

His plans include a return to Covent Garden in Prokofiev's The Garmbler, Lescaut (Manon Lescaut) in Leipzig, Giorgio Germont (La traviata) in Philadelphia, Elviro (Serse) in Stockholm and Don Carlo (La forza del destino) for Holland Park.

In concert, recent engagements have included appearances with the London Symphony Orchestra with Harding and Sir Colin Davis, the Hallé Orchestra with Elder, the Gabrieli Consort with McCreesh, the Academy of Ancient Music with Paul Daniel, the Bamberger Symphoniker with Norrington, the Netherlands Radio Philharmonish Orchestra with Markus Stenz and the Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin with Simon Halsey.

RECORDINGS BY THIS ARTIST:

English love - 5060192780000

The complete Butterworth songbook - 5060192780024

The songs of Ronald Corp - 5060192780031

Paul Carr: Requiem For An Angel

The complete Delius songbook - Volume 1