Mark Stone (baritone)

Mark Stone (born 12 June 1969) is a British baritone appearing in concerts, recitals, and opera.^[1]

Mark Stone
Born	(1969-06-12) 12 June 1969 (age 55) London, England
Genres	Classical
Occupation	Singer (baritone)
Years active	1998–present
Website	www.markstone.info

Biography

Early life

Born in London, England, he studied at Wilson's School, Wallington, London,^[2] before going up to King's College, Cambridge to read mathematics.^[3] After graduating in 1990, he worked as a Chartered Accountant and as an investment banker^[3] before studying singing at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London from 1995 to 1998.^[4]

Performing

He made his operatic debut in 1998, singing the role of Escamillo for Opera North,^[5] since when he has also appeared in the UK at the Royal Opera House,^[6] English National Opera,^[7] Glyndebourne^[8] and Welsh National Opera.^[9] He made his U.S. debut for the Opera Company of Philadelphia^[10] and went on to sing at Santa Fe Opera.^[11] Elsewhere he has sung for La Scala (Milan),^[12] Opera Nationale de Montpellier,^[13] Liceu (Barcelona),^[14] Deutsche Oper Berlin,^[15] Cologne Opera,^[16] Leipzig Opera,^[17] the Royal Swedish Opera,^[18] Nationale Reisoper (Enschede),^[19] Israeli Opera^[17] and New Zealand Opera.^[20]

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,^[21] the Hallé Orchestra,^[22] the Academy of Ancient Music,^[23] the Oxford Lieder Festival,^[24] the Philharmonia Orchestra,^[25] the BBC Concert Orchestra,^[26] the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra,^[17] the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra,^[27] the Munich Radio Orchestra,^[28] the Danish National Symphony Orchestra,^[29] the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (East Berlin),^[30] the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y Léon^[31] and the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia.^[32]

Record producing

In 2008 he formed the CD label Stone Records.^[3] 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'.^[33]

Repertoire

Operatic

Composer	Opera	Role	Performed
Adams	Nixon in China	Chou En-lai	English National Opera[34]
Adès	The Tempest	Sebastian	Concertgebouw[35]
Alfano	Cyrano de Bergerac	Valvert	Royal Opera House[36]
Argento	The Aspern Papers	The lodger	Guildhall School of Music and Drama[17]
Bellini	La straniera	Valdeburgo	Opera Rara[25]
Berlioz	Béatrice et Bénédict	Claudio	Welsh National Opera[37]
	Les Troyens	Chef grec	London Symphony Orchestra[21]
Bernstein	Candide	Maximillian	English National Opera[38]
Bizet	Carmen	Escamillo	Opera North[5]
	Djamileh	Splendiano	Opera North[7]
Britten	Albert Herring	Sid	British Youth Opera,[39] Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg[39]
	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Demetrius	Opera North[40]
	Billy Budd	Bosun	London Symphony Orchestra[41]
	Curlew River	Ferryman	Barbican Centre,[42]
	Gloriana	Mountjoy	Opera North,[39] Royal Opera House[43]
	Peter Grimes	Ned Keane	London Philharmonic Orchestra[39]
	The Rape of Lucretia	Junius	Britten-Pears Orchestra[39]
De Falla	La vida breve	Manuel	Opera North
Donizetti	Il campanello	Enrico	Buxton Festival[44]
	L'elisir d'amore	Belcore	Welsh National Opera[45]
	Lucia di Lammermoor	Enrico	Opera Holland Park,[46] English National Opera,[47]
Dove	Man on the moon	Gene Kranz	Channel 4[48]
Gluck	Iphigénie en Tauride	Oreste	Pina Bausch[49]
	Alceste	High Priest	Woodbridge Festival[39]
Handel	Acis and Galatea	Polyphemus	Gabrieli Consort[39]
	La resurezzione	Lucifero	Opera Atelier[39]
	Serse	Elviro	Royal Swedish Opera[18]
	Tolomeo	Araspe	Broomhill Opera[39]
Haydn	La fedeltà premiata	Melibeo	Guildhall School of Music and Drama[39]
Janáček	The Cunning Little Vixen	Harašta	Opera North
Willem Jeths	Hôtel de Pékin	Baritone	Concertgebouw[50]
Lehár	Die lustige Witwe	Danilo	Opéra national de Montpellier[13]
Martinů	Ariane	Thesée	Guildhall School of Music and Drama[39]
Leoncavallo	I pagliacci	Silvio	Opera North,[51] English National Opera[52]
Mascagni	Cavalleria rusticana	Alfio	English Touring Opera[39]
Massenet	Manon	Lescaut	Opera North[39]
Messager	Veronique	Florestan	Buxton Festival[53]
Mozart	Così fan tutte	Guglielmo	British Youth Opera,[54] Opera Holland Park,[55] Grange Park Opera,[56] Santa Fe Opera,[11] English National Opera[57]
	Die Zauberflöte	Papageno	Opera Company of Philadelphia,[58]
	Don Giovanni	Don Giovanni	Opera Company of Philadelphia,[58] 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,[59] English National Opera,[60] Classical Opera Company,[61] Cologne Opera[62]Tampere Opera[63]
	Le nozze di Figaro	Figaro	Garsington Opera,[64] The NBR New Zealand Opera[20]
	Le nozze di Figaro	Bartolo	Britten-Pears Orchestra[39]
Prokofiev	The Gambler	Mr Astley	Royal Opera House[6]
Puccini	Gianni Schicchi	Gianni Schicchi	Opera Company of Philadelphia[65]
	La bohème	Marcello	Opera North, Grange Park Opera,[66] English National Opera[67]
	La fanciulla del West	Sonora	Royal Opera House[68]
	Madama Butterfly	Yamadori	English National Opera[69]
	Manon Lescaut	Lescaut	Leipzig Opera[39]
Rossini	Guillaume Tell	Guillaume Tell	Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y Léon[31]
	Il barbiere di Siviglia	Figaro	Guildhall School of Music and Drama,[39] English National Opera,[70] Opera Holland Park[39]
	Il campanello	Enrico	Buxton Festival[71]
	L'occasione fa il ladro	Parmenione	Opera North
	Il turco in Italia	Prosdocimo	Garsington Opera[72]
Sawer	Skin Deep	Luke Pollock	Opera North
Saint-Saëns	Samson et Dalila	Second Philistine	London Symphony Orchestra[39]
Sondheim	Sweeney Todd	Sweeney Todd	Munich Radio Orchestra[28]
Strauss, J	Die Fledermaus	Eisenstein	Welsh National Opera[9]
Strauss, R	Ariadne auf Naxos	Musiklehrer	Dartington Festival[39]
	Intermezzo	Robert Storch	Garsington Opera[73]
	Der Rosenkavalier	Faninal	City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra[74]
Sullivan	The Yeomen of the Guard	Jack Point	BBC Proms[75]
Tchaikovsky	Eugene Onegin	Onegin	Glyndebourne,[76] Israeli Opera, Opera Holland Park[77]
	Iolanta	Robert	Opera Holland Park[78]
	Pique dame	Yeletsky	Opéra national de Montpellier, Opera Holland Park[79]
Tippett	King Priam	Hector	Nationale Reisopera,[19] Brighton Festival[80]
Verdi	Falstaff	Ford	Opera Company of Philadelphia[10]
	La forza del destino	Don Carlo	Opera Holland Park[81]
	La traviata	Germont	Opera Company of Philadelphia[82]
Wagner	Die Feen	Morald	Chelsea Opera Group[83]
Weber	Der Freischütz	Ottokar	Opéra national de Montpellier[39]

Concert

Composer	Works
Adès	Totentanz[84]
Auerbach	Dresden Requiem[85]
Bach, J.S.	B Minor Mass,[39] Christmas Oratorio,[39] St John Passion,[86] St Matthew Passion[87]
Bach, C.P.E.	Magnificat[39]
Brahms	A German Requiem[88]
Britten	War Requiem[89]
Carr	Requiem for an Angel[90]
Corp	And all the Trumpets Sounded[91]
Delius	Sea Drift[92]
Duruflé	Requiem[90]
Elgar	The Apostles,[93] Coronation Ode,[94] The Dream of Gerontius[95]
Fauré	Requiem[39]
Glass	Symphony No. 5[39]
Handel	Messiah[39]
Haydn	Nelson Mass[96]
MacMillan	John Passion[29]
Mahler	Symphony No. 8[97]
Martin	Golgotha[98]
Mendelssohn	Elijah[32]
Mozart	Mass in C,[39] Mass in C minor,[39] Requiem[39]
Orff	Carmina Burana[92]
Rachmaninov	The Bells[99]
Rossini	Petite Messe Solenelle,[39] Stabat Mater[39]
Puccini	Messa di Gloria[100]
Tippett	A Child of our Time[39]
Vaughan Williams	A Sea Symphony,[39] Serenade to Music[39]
Walton	Belshazzar's Feast[39]

Discography

Year	Title	With	Label
2014	The complete Quilter songbook Vol.II	Stephen Barlow	Stone Records[90]
	The complete John Ireland songbook Vol.I	Sholto Kynoch	Stone Records[90]
2013	The complete Quilter songbook Vol.I	Stephen Barlow	Stone Records[90]
	Roxanna Panufnik's Love Abide	London Mozart Players, Lee Ward	Warner Classics[101]
2012	Sondheim's Sweeney Todd	Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Ulf Schirmer	BR-Klassik[102]
	The runaway bunny	Catherine Zeta-Jones, Michael Douglas, Glen Roven	GPR Records[103]
	Requiem Æternam (Duruflé's Requiem)	The Choir of Somerville College Oxford, David Crown	Stone Records[90]
	The complete C.W. Orr songbook - volume 2	Simon Lepper	Stone Records[90]
	Britten's War Requiem	Radio Filharmonisch Orkest, Jaap van Zweden	Challenge Classics[89]
	The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 1	Sholto Kynoch	Stone Records[90]
2011	The complete C.W. Orr songbook - volume 1	Simon Lepper	Stone Records[90]
	The complete Delius songbook - volume 2	Stephen Barlow	Stone Records[90]
	Ronald Corp's And all the Trumpets Sounded	Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Ronald Corp	Dutton[91]
	The complete Delius songbook - volume 1	Stephen Barlow	Stone Records[90]
	Time to Time	Onyx Brass	Meridian Records[104]
2010	In my craft or sullen art	Glen Roven	GPR Records[105]
	Paul Carr: Requiem for an Angel	Bath Philharmonia, Gavin Carr	Stone Records[90]
	The songs of Ronald Corp	Simon Lepper	Stone Records[90]
	The complete Butterworth songbook	Stephen Barlow	Stone Records[90]
	Offenbach's Vert-Vert	Philharmonia Orchestra, David Parry	Opera Rara[106]
2009	Gibbs' Odysseus	BBC Concert Orchestra, David Drummond	Dutton[26]
	English love	Stephen Barlow	Stone Records[90]
2008	Britten's Billy Budd	London Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding	Virgin Records[41]
	Bellini's La Straniera	Philharmonia Orchestra, David Parry	Opera Rara[25]
2007	The complete Quilter songbook Vol.I	Stephen Barlow	Sony BMG[107]
	Entre Nous (Offenbach compilation)	Philharmonia Orchestra, David Parry	Opera Rara[108]
	The A to Z of Mozart opera	Classical Opera Company, Ian Page	Sony BMG[109]
	Tchaikovsky Overtures and Fantasies	Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano	EMI[110]
	La Serenata	David Harper	Opera Rara[111]
2006	Ora Divina	David Harper	Opera Rara[112]
2001	Berlioz's Les Troyens	London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis	LSO Live[21]
2000	The Magic of Inspector Morse	Exeter College Choir, Barrington Pheloung	Virgin Records[113]