Mark Stone (baritone)
# Mark Stone (baritone)

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, 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 |
| Berlioz | Les Troyens | Chef grec | London Symphony Orchestra |
| Bernstein | Candide | Maximillian | English National Opera |
| Bizet | Carmen | Escamillo | Opera North |
| Bizet | Djamileh | Splendiano | Opera North |
| Britten | Albert Herring | Sid | British Youth Opera, Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg |
| Britten | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Demetrius | Opera North |
| Britten | Billy Budd | Bosun | London Symphony Orchestra |
| Britten | Curlew River | Ferryman | Barbican Centre, |
| Britten | Gloriana | Mountjoy | Opera North, Royal Opera House |
| Britten | Peter Grimes | Ned Keane | London Philharmonic Orchestra |
| Britten | The Rape of Lucretia | Junius | Britten-Pears Orchestra |
| De Falla | La vida breve | Manuel | Opera North |
| Donizetti | Il campanello | Enrico | Buxton Festival |
| Donizetti | L'elisir d'amore | Belcore | Welsh National Opera |
| Donizetti | 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 |
| Gluck | Alceste | High Priest | Woodbridge Festival |
| Handel | Acis and Galatea | Polyphemus | Gabrieli Consort |
| Handel | La resurezzione | Lucifero | Opera Atelier |
| Handel | Serse | Elviro | Royal Swedish Opera |
| Handel | Tolomeo | Araspe | Broomhill Opera |
| Haydn | La fedeltà premiata | Melibeo | Guildhall School of Music and Drama |
| Janáček | The Cunning Little Vixen | Harašta | Opera North |
| Willem Jeths | Hôtel 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 |
| Massenet | Manon | 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 |
| Mozart | Die Zauberflöte | Papageno | Opera Company of Philadelphia, |
| Mozart | 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 |
| Mozart | Le nozze di Figaro | Il Conte d'Almaviva | Opera Holland Park, English National Opera, Classical Opera Company, Cologne OperaTampere Opera |
| Mozart | Le nozze di Figaro | Figaro | Garsington Opera, The NBR New Zealand Opera |
| Mozart | 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 |
| Puccini | La bohème | Marcello | Opera North, Grange Park Opera, English National Opera |
| Puccini | La fanciulla del West | Sonora | Royal Opera House |
| Puccini | Madama Butterfly | Yamadori | English National Opera |
| Puccini | Manon Lescaut | Lescaut | Leipzig Opera |
| Rossini | Guillaume Tell | Guillaume Tell | Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y Léon |
| Rossini | Il barbiere di Siviglia | Figaro | Guildhall School of Music and Drama, English National Opera, Opera Holland Park |
| Rossini | Il campanello | Enrico | Buxton Festival |
| Rossini | L'occasione fa il ladro | Parmenione | Opera North |
| Rossini | Il turco in Italia | Prosdocimo | Garsington Opera |
| Sawer | Skin Deep | Luke Pollock | Opera North |
| Saint-Saëns | Samson et Dalila | Second Philistine | London Symphony Orchestra |
| Sondheim | Sweeney Todd | Sweeney Todd | Munich Radio Orchestra |
| Strauss, J | Die Fledermaus | Eisenstein | Welsh National Opera |
| Strauss, R | Ariadne auf Naxos | Musiklehrer | Dartington Festival |
| Strauss, R | Intermezzo | Robert Storch | Garsington Opera |
| Strauss, R | Der Rosenkavalier | Faninal | City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra |
| Sullivan | The Yeomen of the Guard | Jack Point | BBC Proms |
| Tchaikovsky | Eugene Onegin | Onegin | Glyndebourne, Israeli Opera, Opera Holland Park |
| Tchaikovsky | Iolanta | Robert | Opera Holland Park |
| Tchaikovsky | 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 |
| Verdi | La forza del destino | Don Carlo | Opera Holland Park |
| Verdi | 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 |
| - | - |
| Adès | Totentanz |
| Auerbach | Dresden Requiem |
| Bach, J.S. | B Minor Mass, Christmas Oratorio, St John Passion, St Matthew Passion |
| Bach, C.P.E. | Magnificat |
| Brahms | A German Requiem |
| Britten | War Requiem |
| Carr | Requiem for an Angel |
| Corp | And all the Trumpets Sounded |
| Delius | Sea Drift |
| Duruflé | Requiem |
| Elgar | The Apostles, Coronation Ode, The Dream of Gerontius |
| Fauré | Requiem |
| Glass | Symphony No. 5 |
| Handel | Messiah |
| Haydn | Nelson Mass |
| MacMillan | John Passion |
| Mahler | Symphony No. 8 |
| Martin | Golgotha |
| Mendelssohn | Elijah |
| Mozart | Mass in C, Mass in C minor, Requiem |
| Orff | Carmina Burana |
| Rachmaninov | The Bells |
| Rossini | Petite Messe Solenelle, Stabat Mater |
| Puccini | Messa di Gloria |
| Tippett | A Child of our Time |
| Vaughan Williams | A Sea Symphony, Serenade to Music |
| Walton | Belshazzar's Feast |

## Discography

| Year | Title | With | Label |
| - | - | - | - |
| 2014 | The complete Quilter songbook Vol.II | Stephen Barlow | Stone Records |
| 2014 | The complete John Ireland songbook Vol.I | Sholto Kynoch | Stone Records |
| 2013 | The complete Quilter songbook Vol.I | Stephen Barlow | Stone Records |
| 2013 | Roxanna Panufnik's Love Abide | London Mozart Players, Lee Ward | Warner Classics |
| 2012 | Sondheim's Sweeney Todd | Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Ulf Schirmer | BR-Klassik |
| 2012 | The runaway bunny | Catherine Zeta-Jones, Michael Douglas, Glen Roven | GPR Records |
| 2012 | Requiem Æternam (Duruflé's Requiem) | The Choir of Somerville College Oxford, David Crown | Stone Records |
| 2012 | The complete C.W. Orr songbook - volume 2 | Simon Lepper | Stone Records |
| 2012 | Britten's War Requiem | Radio Filharmonisch Orkest, Jaap van Zweden | Challenge Classics |
| 2012 | The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 1 | Sholto Kynoch | Stone Records |
| 2011 | The complete C.W. Orr songbook - volume 1 | Simon Lepper | Stone Records |
| 2011 | The complete Delius songbook - volume 2 | Stephen Barlow | Stone Records |
| 2011 | Ronald Corp's And all the Trumpets Sounded | Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Ronald Corp | Dutton |
| 2011 | The complete Delius songbook - volume 1 | Stephen Barlow | Stone Records |
| 2011 | Time to Time | Onyx Brass | Meridian Records |
| 2010 | In my craft or sullen art | Glen Roven | GPR Records |
| 2010 | Paul Carr: Requiem for an Angel | Bath Philharmonia, Gavin Carr | Stone Records |
| 2010 | The songs of Ronald Corp | Simon Lepper | Stone Records |
| 2010 | The complete Butterworth songbook | Stephen Barlow | Stone Records |
| 2010 | Offenbach's Vert-Vert | Philharmonia Orchestra, David Parry | Opera Rara |
| 2009 | Gibbs' Odysseus | BBC Concert Orchestra, David Drummond | Dutton |
| 2009 | English love | Stephen Barlow | Stone Records |
| 2008 | Britten's Billy Budd | London Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding | Virgin Records |
| 2008 | Bellini's La Straniera | Philharmonia Orchestra, David Parry | Opera Rara |
| 2007 | The complete Quilter songbook Vol.I | Stephen Barlow | Sony BMG |
| 2007 | Entre Nous (Offenbach compilation) | Philharmonia Orchestra, David Parry | Opera Rara |
| 2007 | The A to Z of Mozart opera | Classical Opera Company, Ian Page | Sony BMG |
| 2007 | Tchaikovsky Overtures and Fantasies | Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano | EMI |
| 2007 | 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 |
