MarkStone
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Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt
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About Mark
Mark Stone is an English Helden baritone, acclaimed for his performances of Wagnerian roles, such as Alberich in Das Rheingold and Siegfried at Longborough Festival Opera, Wotan in Die Walküre for Trondheim Symfoniorkester, and Gunther in Götterdämmerung at the Grand Théâtre de Genève. He works extensively in Germany (Hamburgische Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Staatsoper Hannover) and the USA (Santa Fe Opera, Opera Philadelphia) where he is also renowned for his performances of modern works such as the title role in Nixon in China and the world premiere of Huang Ruo’s M. Butterfly.
This season sees Mark sing the title role of Der fliegende Holländer for Trondheim Symfoniorkester and Klingsor in Parsifal at the Hamburgische Staatsoper. On the concert platform, Mark will sing Totentanz with Thomas Adès and the Leipzig Gewandhausorchester, join Carolyn Kuan and the BBC Singers and BBC Symphony Orchestra to sing a concert performance of Ruo’s M. Butterfly and sing Sir George Benjamin’s Written on Skin conducted by the composer himself and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.
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Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt
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Season Highlights
Selected Repertoire
| Adams | Nixon in China (Nixon / Chou En-lai) |
|---|---|
| Ades | The Tempest (Sebastian) |
| Barry | Alice’s Adventures Under Ground (Cheshire Cat) |
| Benjamin | Written on Skin (Protector), Lessons in Love and Violence (The King) |
| Berg | Wozzeck (Wozzeck) |
| Bizet | Carmen (Escamillo) |
| Britten | Albert Herring (Sid) • A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Demetrius) • Peter Grimes (Balstrode/Ned Keene) • Billy Budd (Billy Budd) • Gloriana (Mountjoy) • The Rape of Lucretia (Junius) • Curlew River (Ferryman) |
| Debussy | Pelléas et Mélisande (Golaud) |
| Donizetti | Lucia di Lammermoor (Enrico) |
| Francesconi | Quartett (Valmont) |
| Gluck | Iphigénie en Tauride (Oreste) |
| Gounod | Faust (Valentin) • Roméo et Juliette (Capulet) |
| Holst | Savitri (Death) |
| Humperdinck | Hänsel und Gretel (Peter) |
| J. Strauss | Die Fledermaus (Eisenstein/Falke) |
| Janacek | The Cunning Little Vixen (Forester) |
| Jeths | Hôtel de Pékin (Guangxu) |
| Langer | Figaro Gets a Divorce (Count) |
| Mascagni | Cavalleria rusticana (Alfio) |
| Maxwell Davies | The Hogboon (The Hogboon) |
| Messager | Veronique (Florestan) |
| Mozart | Così fan tutte (Don Alfonso) • Die Zauberflöte (Papageno) • Don Giovanni (Don Giovanni) • Le nozze di Figaro (il Conte/Figaro) |
| Puccini | Tosca (Scarpia) • Gianni Schicchi (Gianni Schicchi) • La bohème (Marcello) • La fanciulla del West (Jack Rance / Sonora) • Madama Butterfly (Sharpless) • Manon Lescaut (Lescaut) |
| R. Strauss | Intermezzo (Robert Storch) • Der Rosenkavalier (Faninal) • Salome (Jochanaan) • Elektra (Orest) • Ariadne Auf Naxos (Musiklehrer) • Arabella (Mandryka) |
| Sawer | Skin deep (Luke Pollock) • From Morning to Midnight (Bank Manager) |
| Scharrino | Venere e Adone (Il Mostro) |
| Sondheim | Sweeney Todd (Sweeney Todd) |
| Tchaikovsky | Eugene Onegin (Onegin) • Iolanta (Robert) • Pique Dame (Yeletsky / Tomsky) |
| Tippett | King Priam (Hector) |
| Verdi | Rigoletto (Rigoletto) • Falstaff (Falstaff / Ford) • La forza del destino (Don Carlo) • La traviata (Germont) |
| Wagner | Die Feen (Morald) • Das Liebesverbot (Friedrich) • Der fliegende Holländer (Holländer) • Lohengrin (Telramund) • Das Rheingold (Alberich) • Die Walküre (Wotan) • Siegfried (Alberich) • Götterdämmerung (Alberich/Gunther) • Tristan und Isolde (Kurwenal) • Parsifal (Klingsor / Amfortas) |
| Weber | Der Freischütz (Ottakar) |
News
Press
Wagner: Das Rheingold (Alberich)
Longborough Festival OperaJun 2024Mark Stone's Alberich was a vocal and histrionic tour de force, the dark centre of the drama, his performance filled with passionate declamation, generous sound and pinpoint intonation
- Roger Parker, Opera Magazine - September 2024
- 01 September 2024
