Mark Le Brocq studied at St. Catherine’s College, Cambridge and then at Royal Academy of Music and National Opera Studio. He then became a Company Principal with English National Opera where roles include Tamino/The Magic Flute; Paris/King Priam; Count Almaviva/The Barber of Seville; Narraboth/Salome; Cassio/Otello; Don Ottavio/Don Giovanni; Don Basilio/Figaro and Doctor Maxwell/The Silver Tassie.
Most recent include Siegmund/Die Walküre and Loge (Longborough Festival Opera), Aschenbach/Death in Venice (Welsh National Opera, winner of Achievement in Opera at the 2024 UK Theatre Awards and the Sky Arts Award for Opera), Grimes/Peter Grimes (as guest with British Youth Opera), Loge/Das Rheingold, Mazal/The Excursions of Mr Broucek and Melot, Sailor/Tristan und Isolde (Grange Park Opera), Melot (Scottish Opera), Vitek/The Makropolos Affair (WNO/Brno Festival/Scottish Opera), Tinca/Tabarro and Gherardo/Gianni Schicchi for WNO and World premieres of Blackford’s Babel (Camden Choir) and Fennessy’s The Riot Act (RSNO).
In addition to his countless appearances with most of the major UK opera companies and festivals, further engagements include Mephistopheles/Dr Faustus, The Jailer/Il Prigioniero (Semperoper Dresden); The Major/ Figaro gets a divorce (Magdeburg); Painter, Client/Lulu (Bolzano), Scrooge/A Christmas Carol (Trento); Luka/From the House of the Dead (Brno Festival); Title role/Biedermann und die Brandstifter, Sir Philip Wingrave/Owen Wingrave (Opéra de Nancy).