Mark Le Brocq

Tenor

Mark Le Brocq held a choral scholarship at St. Catherine’s College, Cambridge and studied at the Royal Academy of Music and National Opera Studio. Upon completing his studies, he became a Company Principal with English National Opera where roles include Tamino The Magic Flute; Paris King Priam; Almaviva The Barber of Seville; Narraboth Salome; Cassio Otello; Ottavio Don Giovanni; Basilio Figaro and Doctor Maxwell The Silver Tassie.

Recent engagements include Aschenbach in a new production of Death in Venice (Welsh National Opera), Siegmund Die Walküre and Loge Das Rheingold (Longborough Festival Opera), Mazal The Excursions of Mr Broucek and Melot/Sailor Tristan und Isolde (Grange Park Opera), Siegfried Götterdämmerung (Grimeborn Festival), Vitek The Makropolos Affair (WNO /Brno Festival), World premieres of Blackford's Babel (Camden Choir) and Fennessy's The Riot Act (RSNO).

Concerts include Sylvester The Silver Tassie, Young Sailor Tristan und Isolde, Howard Boucher Dead Man Walking and Goldschmidt’s Mediterranean Songs (BBC Symphony Orchestra); The Fairy Queen and Dixit Dominus (BBC Proms); The Eternal Gospel Janacek and A survivor from Warsaw Schoenberg (Porto Casa da Musica); Das Lied von der Erde (Orquestra de Extremadura); Dream of Gerontius (RTE Dublin), B Minor Mass (Israel Camerata); St Matthew Passion (Academy of Ancient Music); Missa Solemnis, Parry Invocation to music (Three Choirs Festival), Berlioz’s Grande Messe de Morts (St Paul’s Cathedral); Mozart’s C Minor Mass (Scottish Chamber Orchestra); Carmina Burana (Ulster Orchestra, RLPO and Royal Albert Hall); Messiah (Collegium Instrumentale Brugense, Lucerne); Christmas Oratorio (Cadogan Hall); St Matthew Passion (English Chamber Orchestra) and Mozart Requiem (Madrid Radio Symphony).

Recordings include St Nicolas BBC Concert Orchestra/David Temple; Messiah Northern Sinfonia/Jane Glover; Valete in Pace Britten Sinfonia/Andrew Parrott; Tristan und Isolde (Young Sailor) Donald Runnicles/BBC Symphony; Pang Turandot and Remendado Carmen for Chandos; Samson, Messiah, Saul and Judas Maccabeus in live recordings from the Maulbronn Festival; Purcell’s Hail Bright Cecilia with the Gabrieli Consort/Paul McCreesh for DG; Handel’s Te Deum, Boyce’s I Was Glad with the Choir of St Paul’s Cathedral/John Scott for Hyperion and Offenbach’s Vert-Vert for Opera Rara.


Previously for Longborough: Loge/Das Rheingold (2024, 2019 & 2013), Siegmund/Die Walküre (2024)