Mark Stone

Baritone

This season Mark returns to the Hamburgische Staatsoper for Il Mostro/Venere e Adone conducted by Kent Nagano, The Protector in Written on Skin for Deutsche Oper Berlin conducted by Marc Albrecht and the same role with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir George Benjamin. Recent operatic engagements include acclaimed role debuts as Wotan/Die Walküre (Grimeborn), for which he won an Offie Award, Capulet/Roméo et Juliette (Malmö Opera) and the title role/Nixon in China (Staatstheater Hannover).

Other highlights include Gallimard in the world premiere of Huang Ruo’s M. Butterfly (Santa Fe Opera), Sharpless/Madama Butterfly (Welsh National Opera), White Knight/Alice’s Adventures Underground (Royal Opera House), Papageno/The Magic Flute (Welsh National Opera and Valencia Palau de les Arts), Marcello/ La bohème (Copenhagen Opera Festival), Balstrode/Peter Grimes (Opera Queensland), and the title role/Wozzeck and Gunther/ Götterdämmerung (Grand Théâtre de Genève).

Mark has a widespread discography. In November 2020, he was nominated for a Grammy Award for his recording of Ades’s Totentanz with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.


Previously for Longborough: Alberich/Götterdämmerung (2024), Alberich/Siegfried (2024, 2022), Alberich/Das Rheingold (2024, 2019), Giorgio Germont/La traviata (2018)