Mark Stone (baritone)

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name	Mark Stone
birth_place	London, England
birth_date
genre	Classical
occupation	Singer (baritone)
years_active	1998–present
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| name = Mark Stone | birth_place = London, England | birth_date = | genre = Classical | occupation = Singer (baritone) | years_active = 1998–present | website =

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

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 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

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Composer	Opera	Role	Performed
	Adams	Nixon in China	Chou En-lai
	Adès	The Tempest	Sebastian
	Alfano	Cyrano de Bergerac	Valvert
	Argento	The Aspern Papers	The lodger
	Bellini	La straniera	Valdeburgo
Berlioz	Béatrice et Bénédict	Claudio	Welsh National Opera
Les Troyens	Chef grec	London Symphony Orchestra
	Bernstein	Candide	Maximillian
Bizet	Carmen	Escamillo	Opera North
Djamileh	Splendiano	Opera North
Britten	Albert Herring	Sid	British Youth Opera, Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg
A Midsummer Night's Dream	Demetrius	Opera North
Billy Budd	Bosun	url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Britten-Billy-Budd-Ian-Bostridge/dp/B001B1R1IG/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1350115531&sr=1-1	title=Billy Budd
Curlew River	Ferryman	Barbican Centre,
Gloriana	Mountjoy	url=https://www.roh.org.uk/events/tfcv3	title=Gloriana (Thursday 20 June 2013, 7.30pm) – Productions – Royal Opera House
Peter Grimes	Ned Keane	London Philharmonic Orchestra
The Rape of Lucretia	Junius	Britten-Pears Orchestra
	De Falla	La vida breve	Manuel
Donizetti	Il campanello	Enrico	Buxton Festival
L'elisir d'amore	Belcore	Welsh National Opera
Lucia di Lammermoor	Enrico	Opera Holland Park, English National Opera,
	Dove	Man on the moon	Gene Kranz
Gluck	Iphigénie en Tauride	Oreste	Pina Bausch
Alceste	High Priest	Woodbridge Festival
Handel	Acis and Galatea	Polyphemus	Gabrieli Consort
La resurezzione	Lucifero	Opera Atelier
Serse	Elviro	Royal Swedish Opera
Tolomeo	Araspe	Broomhill Opera
	Haydn	La fedeltà premiata	Melibeo
	Janáček	The Cunning Little Vixen	Harašta
	Willem Jeths	Hôtel de Pékin	Baritone
	Lehár	Die lustige Witwe	Danilo
	Martinů	Ariane	Thesée
	Leoncavallo	I pagliacci	Silvio
	Mascagni	Cavalleria rusticana	Alfio
	Massenet	Manon	Lescaut
	Messager	Veronique	Florestan
Mozart	Così fan tutte	Guglielmo	British Youth Opera, Opera Holland Park, Grange Park Opera, Santa Fe Opera, English National Opera
Die Zauberflöte	Papageno	url=https://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/3/prweb9182999.htm	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160130233225/http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/3/prweb9182999.htm
Don Giovanni	Don Giovanni	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, English National Opera, Classical Opera Company, Cologne OperaTampere Opera
Le nozze di Figaro	Figaro	Garsington Opera, The NBR New Zealand Opera
Le nozze di Figaro	Bartolo	Britten-Pears Orchestra
	Prokofiev	The Gambler	Mr Astley
Puccini	Gianni Schicchi	Gianni Schicchi	Opera Company of Philadelphia
La bohème	Marcello	Opera North, Grange Park Opera, English National Opera
La fanciulla del West	Sonora	Royal Opera House
Madama Butterfly	Yamadori	English National Opera
Manon Lescaut	Lescaut	Leipzig Opera
Rossini	Guillaume Tell	Guillaume Tell	Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y Léon
Il barbiere di Siviglia	Figaro	url=http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/6664/the-barber-of-seville	archive-url=https://archive.today/20130421124532/http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/6664/the-barber-of-seville
Il campanello	Enrico	Buxton Festival
L'occasione fa il ladro	Parmenione	Opera North
Il turco in Italia	Prosdocimo	Garsington Opera
	Sawer	Skin Deep	Luke Pollock
	Saint-Saëns	Samson et Dalila	Second Philistine
	Sondheim	Sweeney Todd	Sweeney Todd
	Strauss, J	Die Fledermaus	Eisenstein
Strauss, R	Ariadne auf Naxos	Musiklehrer	Dartington Festival
Intermezzo	Robert Storch	Garsington Opera
Der Rosenkavalier	Faninal	City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
	Sullivan	The Yeomen of the Guard	Jack Point
Tchaikovsky	Eugene Onegin	Onegin	Glyndebourne, Israeli Opera, Opera Holland Park
	Iolanta	Robert	Opera Holland Park
	Pique dame	Yeletsky	Opéra national de Montpellier, Opera Holland Park
	Tippett	King Priam	Hector
Verdi	Falstaff	Ford	Opera Company of Philadelphia
La forza del destino	Don Carlo	Opera Holland Park
La traviata	Germont	Opera Company of Philadelphia
	Wagner	Die Feen	Morald
	Weber	Der Freischütz	Ottokar
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Concert

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Composer	Works
	Adès
	Auerbach
	Bach, J.S.
	Bach, C.P.E.
	Brahms
	Britten
	Carr
	Corp
	Delius
	Duruflé
	Elgar
	Fauré
	Glass
	Handel
	Haydn
	MacMillan
	Mahler
	Martin
	Mendelssohn
	Mozart
	Orff
	Rachmaninov
	Rossini
	Puccini
	Tippett
	Vaughan Williams
	Walton
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Discography

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