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.

Roles include Don Giovanni,Count Almaviva, Figaro (The Barber of Seville), Marcello (La bohème), Guglielmo (Così fan tutte), Chou-en-Lai (Nixon in China), Prince Yamadori in Anthony Minghella’s production of ‘Madame Butterfly’, and Enrico (Lucia di Lammermoor) for ENO.

Other opera engagements include Valvert (Cyrano de Bergerac) and Sonora (La fanciulla del West) at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; the title role in ‘Eugene Onegin’ at Glyndebourne and at the New Israeli Opera; Claudio (Béatrice et Bénédict) at Welsh National Opera and Escamillo (Carmen), Marcello, Harašta (The Cunning Little Vixen) and Demetrius (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) at Opera North. In the U.S. he has appeared as Ford (Falstaff) for Philadelphia Opera and as Guglielmo in Santa Fe. He has sung Junius (The Rape of Lucretia) at Aldeburgh; the title role in ‘Don Giovanni’, Yeletsky (Pique Dame), Danilo (Die lustige Witwe) and Ottakar (Der Freischütz) for Opéra de Montpellier and Lucifero (La Resurrezione) for Opera Atelier in Toronto.