MarkStone

Mark Stone is an English helden baritone, acclaimed for his performances of Wagnerian roles, such as Alberich in Das Rheingold and Siegfried at Longborough Festival Opera, Wotan in Die Walküre for Trondheim Symfoniorkester, and Gunther in Götterdämmerung at the Grand Théâtre de Genève. Future important Wagnerian role debuts include his Klingsor for Hamburgische Staatsoper and the title role in Der fliegende Holländer for Trondheim Symfoniorkester. He works extensively in Germany (Hamburgische Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Staatsoper Hannover) and the USA (Santa Fe Opera, Opera Philadelphia) where he is also renowned for his performances of modern works such as the title role in Nixon in China and the world premiere of Huang Ruo’s M. Butterfly.

This season sees Mark sing il Mostro in Salvatore Sciarrino’s Venere e Adone conducted by Kent Nagano at the Hamburische Staatsoper and The Protector in George Benjamin’s Written on Skin both under Marc Albrecht at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer himself. He also returns to Longborough Festival Opera to sing his first complete Ring cycles as Alberich. On the concert platform Mark’s year includes Bruckner’s Third Mass with the Royal Northern Sinfonia and Thomas Zehetmair, Sea Symphony with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland and Leonard Slatkin and Carmina Burana with the Orchestre de Paris and Andrés Orozco-Estrada.