Mark Stone

Baritone Mark Stone was born in London and studied Mathematics at King's College, Cambridge, and singing at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. In 1998 he was awarded the Decca Prize at the Kathleen Ferrier Awards. Recent operatic engagements include his first foray into Wagner roles last season with acclaimed role debuts as Gunther in Götterdämmerung at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, Alberich (Das Rheingold) at the Longborough Festival and Wotan (Die Walküre) with Trondheim Opera. He also sang Marcello (La Bohème) for the Copenhagen Opera Festival, Papageno (Die Zauberflöte) with Welsh National Opera and Valencia Palau de les Arts; Balstrode (Peter Grimes) at Opera Queensland, Australia; the King in George Benjamin’s Lessons in Love and Violence at the Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg